Word: klan
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...months congressional stenographers catalogued the names and protestations of klaliffs, kleagles, kladds and kludds. Last week the House UnAmerican Activities Committee decided that it had heard all the testimony that it needed-or could stand-and quietly ended its hearings into the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...
...investigation adduced very little information about the Klan unknown to the Justice Department. Nor did it lead to any convictions or indictments, though Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton, four grand dragons, a kludd and a kladd were cited for contempt of Congress. Yet the inquiry served a useful purpose, if only by giving an opportunity to a sorry klutch of knackers, knarks and Knipperdollings* to document for themselves that "the invisible empire" is moved as much by dollar lust as by racial hatred...
...expects the Klan to disappear as a result of the House hearings, but the publicity has already dented membership in most of the South (with the exception of North Carolina, where a number of new Klaverns have been formed). It has also engendered internal dissension. Having learned how high on the hog their leaders live, Mississippi Klan chieftains are thinking of breaking away to see if they can do as well in their own organization...
...mother was fired from her job within 24 hours after she had chosen a white school for her child. In Calhoun County, Miss., a Negro pupil registered for the seventh grade in a white school but failed to attend classes after her family was threatened by the Ku Klux Klan; the school board then told her she could not attend classes at all, since she had rejected "the school of her choice...
...likely to be found wearing business suits as white sheets. The party may be able to purge Klansmen and Birchites from its rolls, but that is no guarantee that it will thus cleanse itself of prejudice, or that its membership will then find Negro allies acceptable. Even with the Klan excluded, Southern Republicans are still white and conservative sharing the region's general sentiments about politics and race...