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...those of blacks, whites, or Chicanos, members of every race will remain prisoners of their skins. The ugliness of racism will not disappear until people refuse to consider skin color as significant of anything. In this regard, SDS has been as opposed to color-blindness as the Ku Klux Klan...
Veteran leftists assume as a matter of course that their public meetings are penetrated by informers. This assumption is most likely true: the groups which informers have been sent into range from The Klan to the Weathermen to almost every Black student group to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...
...avoid antagonizing Byrd, who is the Senate majority whip, the Administration added his name to the list submitted to the American Bar Association for prior consultation. The gesture considerably heated up the outcry against the entire slate, since Byrd was once an active organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, had only earned his law degree?from night school?in 1963, and had never been admitted...
...Crow. An organizer for the Ku Klux Klan in the '40s, an affiliation he has since recanted, Byrd, 53, has a less than statesmanlike record in the Senate. There he has consistently sided with Southern conservatives on civil rights issues and is noted for his "industry" rather than his legal erudition or constitutional insight. Indeed, he has never practiced law. He earned his law degree in 1963 by studying at night, and has yet to pass a bar examination. Even Attorney General John Mitchell demurred when Byrd's name was raised. But one account has it that Treasury...
Although long a favorite of Hoover's, Sullivan quarreled with his boss a decade ago over his non-Hooverian contention that the Ku Klux Klan represented a greater threat than the U.S. Communist Party. Since 1967, they have been at odds about espionage restrictions, ordered by Hoover, that severely limited FBI investigations of spies. Alarmed at rising criticism of such practices, Hoover curtailed the use of wiretaps and electronic eavesdropping in espionage cases. He also banned what intelligence called "surreptitious entry"-meaning burglary -and a companion tactic, the "bag job," in which agents enter a home or office...