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...wings the Massachusetts gubernatorial race, leading a Democratic sweep of statewide posts. 15 - Birth of a Nation is shown in Science Center A after its initial October 5 screening was cancelled. Fifty students had protested showing the film, citing its portrayal of blacks and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. 20 - Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Dana L. Farnworth, Oliver Professor of Hygiene Emeritus and former Vice Chairman of the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, criticizes current drug laws making marijuana users liable for punishment and recommends that possessing less than one ounce of marijuana no longer...
...according to some officials, witness statements were hard to come by. First there was the fear: If a person were to testify, would there be reprisals? Then there was hopelessness: Would a court in segregationist Alabama really do justice? And then there were the cops. During the '60s, the Klan had ears and eyes and tongues within the local police force. Nonetheless, after two years, FBI agents felt they had a strong case but said J. Edgar Hoover and his senior administrators blocked them from sharing their findings with prosecutors...
...Blanton was a 25-year-old 10th-grade dropout working in a stockroom. Bobby Frank Cherry was 33 years old with only eight years of school; he was missing all his upper teeth and had already fathered seven children. Both men had been in the Klan but found it too restrained for their liking. So, along with a few others, they formed the Cahaba Boys, who met beneath the Cahaba River bridge on U.S. 280 to drink beer and talk about saving the South from Jews, Catholics and blacks...
...sent to hundreds of city leaders, stating that "Booker himself hates Newark...He is a mere publicity-stunt hound dog who is against everything and for nothing." Over the past three years, Booker's opponents have anonymously accused him of being white, gay, a tool of the Ku Klux Klan and a lover of Jews who lives in a mansion...
...profit centers. It has launched a $100 million-a-year campaign to reshape its image by backing the environment, the arts and summer camps for children with HIV or AIDS. Is it right, one asks, to discount such deeds because one condemns the source? What if the Ku Klux Klan were to institute a $1 million campaign for universal literacy, with a K.K.K. mom appearing on TV and asking, "Won't you join us in making good readers a clan we can all be proud of? Thank...