Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaware was not the only infected area last week. In Georgia, 24 knights of the Ku Klux Klan, wearing white robes, gathered around a burning cross near Atlanta to hear two speakers rail against the "black-robed buzzards of the Supreme Court." In Marion County, W. Va., Judge J. Harper Meredith had to issue an injunction to stop 53 white parents from threatening teachers on their way to the partially segregated Annabelle School. Such obstructionism, said the judge, "is a rebellion against the government . . . If necessary, I'll fill the jail until their feet are sticking out the windows...
...very day, Feburary 2, that the special conference was held. At that time Sizemore reportedly told the faculty members that Georgia's list of suspect organizations was to be substantially like the U.S. Attorney General's list except that certain so-called fascist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, would not be included. Statewide protest attacked this omission and the Klan was put back on the list so that in final form it substantially copies the Federal list...
...totalitarian government or who seeks to impose a totalitarian government on the United States by membership . . . in such organization, is unfit to teach in our schools. It is recognized that in our democracy individual citizens are free to believe as they wish, even in Communism, Fascism, the Ku Klux Klan, or Nazism, but it is not conceded that such right to such belief includes the right to crystallize these beliefs into action by way of the formations of . . . conspiracies to advocate and to take steps in an attempt to replace our democratic form of government with a totalitarian state...
...very day, February 2, that the special conference was held. At the time Size-more reportedly told the faculty members that Georgia's list of suspect organizations was to be substantially like the U.S. Attorney General's list except that certain so-called fascist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, would not be included. Statewide protest attacked this omission and the Klan was put back on the list so that in final form it sub-stantially copies the Federal list...
...unleavened Florida cracker from the upstate piney woods. A onetime railroad conductor, Johns had collected more than $70,000 from selling insurance to state agencies while presiding officer of the state senate. He had voted for legalized slot machines, against school construction and against unmasking the Ku Klux Klan...