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Jeering at the marchers along the roadway and at the county courthouse in Cumming was a mob of about 1,000 whites wearing the face of hatred. White- robed thugs from the Ku Klux Klan shouting "Go home, niggers!" Out-of- state zealots who call themselves Aryans and dementedly pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Young kids too, in checked shirts and baseball caps, waving the Confederate flag. A few stones were thrown, and one woman was hit by a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism On The Rise | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

...racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a white student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. Black women complained of stepped up harassment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: World Series Touches Off Racial Clashes | 11/15/1986 | See Source »

...political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick, who has the backing of businessmen and the Ku Klux Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Opening Round: Senate battles shape up | 6/16/1986 | See Source »

...remind the city of the disquieting past, Wayne Williams, convicted killer of two of the Atlanta youths, was again in the headlines. Last week USA Today reported that the Georgia bureau of investigation destroyed evidence that it had received from an informant about possible links between the Ku Klux Klan and the child killings. Williams' prosecutors say investigators concluded that the Klan was not connected with the murders. But Williams' lawyers are arguing that the state's "cover-up" entitles their client to a new trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Lady Killer Stalks Atlanta | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

...about why she should not go to David Chan, and she will still go; and she is still my friend. But I did not feel obliged to give her Chan's number. Nor would I feel obliged to give a racist the time and place of the Ku Klux Klan's next meeting, or an anti-Semite the time and place of a Nazi party rally...

Author: By Victoria G.T. Bassetti, | Title: Don't Rationalize Away Sensitivity | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

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