Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because he was born on Monday); Old Slave Monday lived on to serve in that carpetbag Georgia state legislature come Reconstruction. Dick was taught to call Negroes "the colored people" and he admired and respected them in that special, paternal Southern way. Once, when he considered joining the Ku Klux Klan, his father took him aside and handed out some advice that was to last Dick the rest of his life: "Son, any organization where the members are not willing to go around unmasked-I'd go slow about that...
...white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale of some church property will bring in $200,000 more. White pupils will pay a modest $200 tuition. Dr. Ingle is a longtime enemy of integration, has often addressed the local Ku Klux Klan, of which his brother is a leader. Says Ingle: "We believe that this integration program is nothing but a Communist plot. It is not right, and it is not scriptural...
According to Cole, the era of the trial was "a period of frustration, uncertainty, and intolerance" marked by the re-emergence of the Ku Klux Klan. He quoted Bryan as saying that "it is more important to know "The Rock of Ages' than the age of rocks...
...clients, served briefly as police magistrate, entered the Senate in 1927. There he fought hard for New Deal, built a reputation as a relentless Senate investigator of lobbying and trusts, stood solidly on liberal side of the line despite fact that he had, at 37, been member of Ku Klux Klan. In the court Baptist Black was a novice in constitutional law, but studied incessantly, developed diamond-hard technical knowledge, has held the line for triple-distilled civil liberties and social interpretation of law. He often turns an angry purple at indefatigable Felix Frankfurter. Scholarly, quick-witted, he is immensely...
Mighty proud of Barbara Ellice Richardson, his brand-new, baby-doll bride, "a pretty girl with peculiar eyes, one brown and the other blue." the Rev. Alvin Horn, Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. trotted her down to Tuscaloosa to show off at a race-baiting get-together the boys had planned. But back in Talladega. Barbara Ellice's daddy sicked the sheriff on the honeymooners, and Barbara Ellice got clamped into custody. The reason: bouncing (5 ft. 8 in., 145 Ib.) Baby Doll is only 15. It was all news to the Reverend, a 45-year...