Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year (TIME, May 11), the only one ever given to weekly papers. Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter for his journalistic enterprise. In the mail came an unsolicited letter from former Imperial Wizard Thomas L. Hamilton, who was sent to jail, along with 15 other Klansmen, as a result of the weeklies' crusade. Said Hamilton's letter...
...know Senator McCarthy well, officially and personally. I view him as a friend and I believe he so views me. Certainly, he is a controversial man. He is earnest and he is honest. He has enemies. Whenever you attack subversives of any kind, Communists, Fascists, even the Ku Klux Klan, you are going to be the victim of the most extremely vicious criticism that can be made. I know. But sometimes a knock is a boost. When certain elements cease their attacks on me, I'll know I'm slipping...
...churches freeing them from any obligation to contribute to Piedmont. From now on, without the churches' steady support, President Walter may have little to keep running on-only his dwindling tuitions, the Armstrong money and the resentment of many of his students, who recently planted a Ku-Klux-type cross on his lawn and set it aflame...
...North Carolina's legislature passed a law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan (and also, in part, at the Communist Party), banning any secret society organized to circumvent state law. Henceforth outlawed, if used for intimidation by any fraternal, political or social order: secret meetings, wearing of masks, burning of crosses...
...weeklies won their prize for stopping an invasion. The invaders: the Ku Klux Klan, which swarmed into Columbus County from neighboring counties in 1950 and began to terrorize whites and Negroes alike. News Reporter Editor Willard Cole, 46, and Tribune Editor Horace Carter, 32, locked arms for a long, tough battle. Branding the Klan "a [bunch of] gangsters," Cole and Carter, both native Tarheels and longtime friends, fought month after month with front-page editorials, dug up proof of K.K.K. floggings and atrocities, kept guns in their homes for their own protection...