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...story of the Klan's ultimate demise begins in 1981, when a group of Klansmen in Mobile did something generatons of Klansmen had done before them: they lynched a local Black teenager. Two were convicted in the slaying...
...KLANSMEN WHO disrupt protest marches are way out of the mainstream of American life. They are the locked-out, angry at a world which has passed turned on them. They are the people who call latenight radio call-in shows to ask--as one caller recently asked Larry King--"Why don't we have a national holiday in honor of the guy who blew King away...
...remember going to an anti-Klan march in Washington, D.C. in the midst of the Reagan recession. Tens of thousands of protesters turned out to prevent 10 Klansmen from marching down Pennsylvania Avenue--and were successful...
...course of the protest the crowd began to shower police assigned to protect the Klansmen with bottles and rocks. The cops responded with tear gas. As I ran from the gas, I passed a Black man slumped against a statue. He held a placard. Its message? "We Want Jobs...
When a busload of marchers from Atlanta arrived on Jan. 17, they encountered a swarm of about 300 opponents, some in Klansmen's sheets, some in military fatigues, who greeted them with rocks, bottles, clots of mud and chants of "Go home, niggers!" Four of the 90-odd marchers were injured, and eight attackers were arrested before the march broke off. "It is amazing," said Atlanta City Councilman Hosea Williams, who was hit twice by flying stones, "that this kind of racial violence can happen in this country...