Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marshall Ballard, 73, longtime (1907-47) editor of the New Orleans Item; in New Orleans. A crony of Author-Editor Henry L. Mencken in his fledgling Baltimore days, Ballard became a crusader against the Ku Klux Klan, carried on a personal feud with Strongman Huey Long, whom he once offered a $10-a-week reporting job ("That's not enough," sneered the 18-year-old Kingfish. "I'm going places...
...little guns of the South have been lobbing ominous shells in the direction of the U.S. Supreme Court. Said Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge: "As long as I am governor, Negroes will not be admitted to white schools." Popped Grand Dragon Bill Hendrix of the Ku Klux Klan: if segregation is abolished, "the American Confederate Army" will march in armed rebellion. Cried South Carolina's Governor Jimmy Byrnes: "South Carolina will not, now nor for some years to come, mix white and colored children in our schools. If the court changes what...
Within a few days of the Moore murders, a small army of FBI men invaded Florida to investigate the bombings. A federal grand jury, which included three Negroes, heard 50 witnesses, many of whom were members or former members of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Helen Russell, 55, wife of a railroad engineer and onetime Sunday-school teacher. As vice president of a local "civic association," Mrs. Russell had led agitation against admission of Negroes to Carver Village. According to the grand jury, she had lied under oath when she denied asking Ku Klux Klan assistance in her drive to prevent Negroes from moving into the housing development. She had perjured herself again, it was charged, when she denied acquaintance with four Klan officers. Sobbed Mrs. Russell last week: "I've never lied in my life . . . I've got a fine husband...
Before the cameras, Dewey held up a ballot of Senator John Sparkman's home state, Alabama; on it was the Democratic symbol, a rooster, with the legend: "White Supremacy-for the Right." Said Dewey: "White supremacy is the battle cry of the old Ku Klux Klan. It is the battle cry of the hatemongers and the fascists. It is the battle cry of those who would suppress the rights of all minorities . . . The Ku Klux Klan white-supremacy slogan was anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish and anti-Negro . . . Governor Stevenson pretends to be a modern, liberal gentleman who reads well...