Word: klan
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...until the early 1970s that the federal government stopped its surveillance of places of worship. Before that, FBI director J. Edgar Hooper spent much of his term spying on the comings and goings of rabble-rousers as varied as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and assorted Ku Klux Klan members...
...rallygoers’ agendas does not excuse the blurring of vital distinctions that marred the rally’s message. In discussing the Bush administration’s warning to countries suspected of harboring terrorists, one speaker raised the example of domestic militia groups and the Ku Klux Klan. “We harbor those people,” he announced, and we harbored Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh—who, coincidentally, was executed last June...
...voice was that of Thomas E. Blanton, Jr., secretly recorded in the mid-1960s by a Ku Klux Klan buddy turned informant for the FBI, and the tapes helped convince jurors after just three hours of deliberation to convict Blanton, now 62, of the 1963 bombing that killed four young girls at the city's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church...
...last areas in DeKalb County to get sewers and paved roads. But even when separatism was perpetuated by law, "Stone Mountain blacks and whites got along harmoniously," says Ralph Shipp, 68, a lifelong resident. Other African Americans also recall warm relationships between the races. And yet the Klan had a strong presence in Stone Mountain, its leader occupying the two-story white house the black mayor now lives in. James R. Venable, Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was also a lawyer. According to local historian Walter McCurdy, Venable once successfully defended two Black Panthers...
...second-quarter 2000 issue, with slave shackles on the cover and the headline DID SLAVERY CAUSE THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES? The magazine fell open to a two-page ad for a book called The God of War. The book is about the same Civil War hero and Klan co-founder celebrated on the wall of the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., the same man memorialized by that monument in Selma. The clip-out order form for the book said, "Yes, I want to ride with General Nathan Bedford Forrest!" It has been too long a ride...