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...populate Louisiana's 81st legislative district, had wrought. Some 78% of the district's 21,464 registered voters, only 52 of whom are black, had turned out to give a vacant statehouse seat to David Duke, 38, a former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan who recently converted to the G.O.P. As Duke took his oath of office, his followers cheered from the gallery and state Republican legislators accepted him into their caucus...
...G.O.P. critics. An avowed Nazi in his college years, Duke entered presidential primaries in a few states last year as a Democrat but won no delegates. He ran as presidential candidate of the Populist Party and got only 0.05% of the vote. Although he claims to have left the Klan in 1979, his home address serves as the local Klan office. He now heads the National Association for the Advancement of White People from the same location. While he professes to believe in "civil rights for all people," his new organization publishes an anti-Semitic newspaper (30,000 subscribers) that...
David Duke claims to have abdicated the title of imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit...
...ignore them. In the process, they have not only turned history inside out but have also lent support to a racist myth. Says Seth Cagin, co-author of We Are Not Afraid, a rigorous account of the Philadelphia murders: "The film suits the fantasy of the Ku Klux Klan that the FBI was an invading tyrannical force that imposed its will on the South because it played dirty." It is bad enough that most Americans know next to nothing about the true story of the civil rights movement. It would be even worse for them to embrace the fabrications...
...Klux Klan murdered three civil rights workers. A stark new film about the case has won acclaim for its cinematic bravado and for Gene Hackman' s career- capping performance. The movie has also stoked questions about the ways history may be bent in pursuit of rebel- razin' entertainment. See SHOW BUSINESS...