Word: klan
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...Klan was started, as you said [April 9], 100 years ago but, heaven knows, not as a social club for bored Southern gentry. It was formed by leading members of the Southern communities to protect their women and homes from Reconstruction carpetbagger thugs and freed Negroes. Many Negroes returned to their homes or sought work with others, but there were many who, spurred on by crooked politicians and lawmen, raped, robbed and generally browbeat decent citizens. I am a descendant of one of the original Klansmen and have heard of these things all my life. The decent, law-abiding Negro...
...Angeles National Forest with a blast from a German-made, 20-mm. antitank gun that they had bought from a Culver City firm for $150. And last September, the FBI seized four Russian-army Tokarev semi-automatic rifles that had been shipped to members of the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi...
...former senator from North Carolina, and former president of the University of North Carolina, Graham endorsed a Congressional investigation into the Ku Klux Klan. He warned, however, that this not be conducted by the Committee on Un-American Activities. "We want to be sure that the investigation doesn't turn into a witch hunt which will be turned against leaders of the civil rights movement," he said...
...timidate or oppress persons in the exercise of their constitutional rights, or to set upon and murder innocent citizens, white or black--then such persons can be adequately dealt with under our present system of laws, if their guilt can be established. The frightening aspect of Communist or Klan control laws is that they permit the government to punish people without actually proving such guilt--and by merely satisfying legislators that the organizations to which they belong are "subversive...
...have plenty of laws on the books to deal with the illegal activities of the Klan--if we could only get them enforced. Repressive, arbitrary, and unconstitutional Congressional action is not the answer to any problem, no matter how grave. Joel L. Sellg...