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...with perhaps the most diverse membership is the Fly. The Fly has an ostentatious club house and garden in front of Lowell House, and with four blacks, the Fly has 80 percent of all black club members. This is not likely to stir a revival of the Ku Klux Klan in New England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages...
...cover stories in the past five weeks and eleven in the past six months. This week's cover story was written by B.J. Phillips and William Barnes. Phillips, a native Georgian, found the Mafia's "concern for violent retribution in many ways reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan...
Reports in the packet detail a Ku Klux Klan meeting held in a rural area of Pennsylvania, listing those present and describing a film of atrocities committed on blacks by Klan members. A memorandum dated October 1970 outlines attempts to gather information on the private lives and credit ratings of members of the militant Jewish Defense League...
After the lecture, Ali recited one of his poems, "Better Far," which he introduced as a "black militant freedom poem." The verse was about a young black from Mississippi who at age ten had seen a black man lynched by the Klan, and had later had "bad experiences with the worst of the whites." He had gone north to Brooklyn where he joined the Panthers, and at the time of the poem was involved with 49 other Panthers in a rooftop shoot-out against the police. After all the other Panthers had been either shot or had surrendered, he remained...
...Klan Potentate. Typical of the psychoses that sometimes developed after pot use was the paranoia of a 16-year-old girl who thought her older sister's husband was sexually interested in her. She began to attack teachers and friends verbally, dropped out of school and attempted to hang herself. In other cases, a 24-year-old came to believe he was the first member of a new superrace, a 20-year-old thought he was a Ku Klux Klan potentate in charge of the Mafia, and a 17-year-old decided he was the Messiah returned to earth...