Word: klux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Atlanta, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen tied a young construction worker named Joseph Berry to a tree, flogged him with a leather strap until blood vessels burst...
Three Georgia newsmen, framed by the Ku Klux Klan last month, were let down cold by their newspaper last week...
...Pine Mountain, 37 miles from Columbus, Ga., a group of men awaited their initiation into the Ku Klux Klan one night last week. One by one they were summoned, unsheeted, into a tar-paper shack to "take the obligation." When the last man had been called, three still remained outside. They had not been invited; they were three newsmen from the Columbus Ledger who had been tipped that this was to be the biggest Ku Klux Klan gathering around Columbus in 20 years...
...Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square before the town's dilapidated courthouse, where a crowd of 700 waited to applaud...
...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...