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...Klansmen and Nazis go on trial for murder in Greensboro
Fort Wayne police continued to question black leaders, as well as Ku Klux Klansmen and local members of other extremist groups in an effort to turn up leads; officers even used hypnosis in an unsuccessful attempt to sharpen the memory of a man who reported seeing a parked car just off Interstate 69 at the time of the shooting but could recall little else about...
...Klux Klansmen have paraded around Florida lately, dispensing their old nativist bile and giving a bad name to an argument (AMERICA FOR AMERICANS, the picket signs say) that has more thoughtful and respectable proponents. The New Republic's columnist, TRB, a voice of intelligent liberalism, writes with some truculence: "Sooner or later, America must face reality. It is going to be painful ... The trouble is that huddled masses need jobs. The American frontier (worse luck) is gone." The American ideal of endless hospitality and refuge presupposed perpetually expanding resources. Now, says the argument, an emerging order of scarcity mandates...
Although all Klansmen subscribe to the same racist beliefs, they are fractured among at least a dozen factions. The oldest and largest is the 3,500-member United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, 50, a former tire salesman from Tuscaloosa, Ala. But his group has been waning in influence in the past few years. The South's most visible klavern now is the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which has about 2,500 gun-toting, violence-talking members. Their imperial wizard is Bill Wilkinson, 36, a former electrical contractor from Denham Springs...
...Other observers are persuaded that Klan strength will decline only when the people who are now attracted to it get a bigger share of the South's economic boom. Until then, say Mary Joyce Carlson, a civil rights lawyer in Atlanta whose car was once shot at by Klansmen, "any group with simple ready-made answers will have some support...