Word: klansman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Including Little Big Horned Klansman James ("Catfish") Cole, who called the Klan rally that was routed by whooping Lumbee Indians in Maxton, N.C. last January...
Died. Ray Sprigle, 71, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1938) for revealing that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a Ku Klux Klansman; of injuries suffered in an auto crash; in Pittsburgh...
...before an all-white male jury in Circuit Judge Alta L. King's Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn...
...Uphold, Not Upset. No sooner had the three school boards acted than the pressures began building toward a blowoff. Fiery crosses burned at night near Charlotte. A hooded Klansman promised to "muster 50,000 men by the time schools begin to open." Fanatic John Kasper of New Jersey roared into Greensboro, Charlotte and Winston-Salem, harangued his followers to drive school-board members to "nervous breakdowns, heart attacks and suicide...
...National Association for the Advancement and Protection of the Majority of the White People, chartered in Georgia last June, claims it will fight "any and all legal actions brought to destroy segregation laws between the White Race and the Colored Race." Among its founders: Dr. Marvin Head, onetime Chief Klansman of Griffin...