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What do the Ku Klux Klan and the Boy Scouts have in common? Not much. But recently, the fight against discrimination--once targeted at obvious villians such as the Klan and the American Nazi Party--has broadened to encompass such symbols of Americans as the Boy Scouts, the Army and the St. Patrick's Day Parade...
...decided I was going to go to the South and see what it was like to be young, male and Black in a Southern world," he says. "They were still murdering people by night the Klan still lived...
...tried to block those entering. Faced with local officials who deemed such protests legal, abortion-rights advocates turned to the federal courts. There a number of judges were willing to restrain Operation Rescue through an 1871 federal civil rights law originally designed for use against the Ku Klux Klan. Women seeking abortions, the judges ruled, deserved the same protected status as blacks...
...other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter of a lawyer, Linda says, "you were sent to your room if you didn't have an opinion." She says she and Hillary are much alike, as they pursue their careers and work together on a foundation Linda established to send Ozark women to college. Linda talks to Hillary...
FIRST IT WAS UP. THEN IT WAS DOWN. THEN UP, then down. Up again, down again. Then up one last time before Cincinnati was finally rid of the specter of a cross raised by the Ku Klux Klan. The hate group's permit to display the cross finally expired a day before New Year's Eve. For nine days the cross inspired a festival of civil disobedience. Four times the Klan put it up, and three times protesters knocked it down. The list of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan...