Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After an hour or two, the white-sheeted Klansmen emerged. With them, regal in his green robes, came Georgia's Grand Dragon, Dr. Samuel Green, who is an Atlanta physician in his spare time. The Ledger's photographer, Joe Talbot, 36, stepped forward, started shooting flashbulbs...
Torture by Liquor. He did not get many shots. The Klansmen grabbed him, began smashing his equipment. They also grabbed Talbot's colleagues, Reporters James Bellows, 25, and Carlton Johnson, 22, both, like Talbot, Navy veterans. What happened after that the newsmen described in print next day. The Klansmen handed them each a bottle of whiskey and ordered them to drink. When they refused, the Klansmen shouted that they would pour the liquor down them. They drank-a pint each within about 30 minutes-surrounded by the threatening, yelling...
Talbot recalled later: "Bellows just kinda folded up on the ground. . . . They just threw him down beside the fire." Talbot and Johnson went on drinking. Finally the Klansmen dragged all three into the shack, jabbed a hypodermic into Johnson's arm, gave Talbot two jabs...
Morning After. Two Klansmen drove the car and its three occupants to the outskirts of the town of Manchester, carefully wiped the steering wheel clean of fingerprints and vanished. Minutes later, discovered by a Manchester cop, the newsmen landed in the Manchester jail charged with drunkenness. Their city editor, Joe Hall, bailed them...
...Last week Georgia's Grand Dragon Samuel Green carefully explained that Ku Klux Klansmen wear masks to protect themselves against the prejudice of Jews, Catholics and foreigners. *Southern man has seldom condemned sexual relations between whites and Negro women; before the Civil War, when mulatto slaves brought high prices, the practice was encouraged. Today, approximately 70% of American Negroes have some white blood...