Word: klu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chicago, while he supported himself. A Columbia recruiter convinced him to apply to Eastern colleges. He had never heard of Harvard before. In his small town of Parker, "counselors discourage you from applying to college," he says, "and Anglos tell you you're stupid." He adds that the Klu Klux Klan counts 200 members in his town. Now, whites at home hate him even more, because no one in town has ever been to Harvard, he says. And stereotypes stick: he is called "Mr. Harvard Accent...
...setting is a 1944 Louisiana army base where Master Sergeant Vernon Waters, leader of an all Black company, is murdered one dark night outside of the camp. The white base commander seeks to quiet a potentially explosive situation, quickly blaming the shooting on the local Klu Klux Klan. But his efforts are undone when the Army sends a Negro military attorney, a polished, Howard University-trained officer, to investigate. Instead of accepting two seemingly culpable white officers as scapegoats, Captain Richard Davenport pushes on with his search. And with integrity and tenacity, he uncovers the true, frightening nature...
...norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they would, and the Harvard feminist groups would, view them as having been violated (and rightly so). Or suppose a not so hypothetical Harvard Conservative Club and the editors of the Harvard Salient invited the Grand Wizard of the Klu Klux Klan to a "private teach-in on states rights". Would the norms of fairness and free speech be violated? You bet they would, and the Harvard Black Students Association and--yes--the Harvard Black Law Students Association would view them as having been violated, and would charge the conservative...