Word: klux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with hateful stares," she reported later. "As I sat down . . . several students moved away." That night 1,000 students marched on the home of President Oliver Cromwell Carmichael. They sang Dixie, shouted, "To hell with Autherine!" and "Keep 'Bama white!" Another group of mobsters set a Ku Klux-style cross on fire in front of Dean William Adams' house...
...Other Side. The measure of the Southern press was taken last week by Jere Moore, editor of Georgia's Milledgeville weekly Union Recorder, who once routed the Ku Klux Klan in a local battle. Said Moore: "The newspapers of the South have failed to take the leadership demanded of them in this issue. They have been weak-kneed when they should have been strong. We have not tackled the issue...
...newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by the Ku Klux Klan. The violence culminated in June, 1954, when their house was destroyed by a dynamite explosion...
...because of the disparity that exists between the races in the area of health, morality and culture." The Rev. Claude J. Stallworth, principal of the school, promptly condemned the resolution as representative of "a movement which is as unAmerican, un-Catholic and un-Christian as Nazism, Fascism, Ku Klux Klanism or Communism." And besides, he said, he knew of no plans to integrate Jesuit High...
...Governor Dan Mc-Carty, died in office. Under the state constitution, he was succeeded by the President of the Senate, one Charley Johns, a former railroad conductor, who as a legislator had voted to put the brakes on improving educational standards and against a law to unmask the Ku Klux Klan. Roy Collins ran against Johns for the final unexpired two years of McCarty's term. Collins took his stand against what he called the "muster of the vultures." Despite Johns's lavish promises of road construction projects in key vote areas, Collins beat...