Word: klux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While all was calm in Montgomery, Boston was still reeling from angry demonstrations against the busing of black children to schools in white neighborhoods. In the city that had done so much to advance the cause of civil rights, a group of Ku Klux Klan members arrived last week to stir up more trouble, as did a contingent of neo-Nazi white supremacists from Virginia...
...Show often displays "real bad form," Program Coordinator Debi Amos personally supervises the telecasting but says, "I can't stop her because I have no law or rules to stop her with." That dilemma is not unique. In Reading last year there were two programs by the Ku Klux Klan...
ALABAMA'S WALTER FLOWERS, who first came to office in 1968 as a follower of George Wallace, is in some trouble. His constituency, which includes everything from Ku Klux Klansmen to liberal black college professors, went 66% for Nixon in 1972. As District Representative Andy Dearman said in Flowers' Tuscaloosa office: "No one has expressed outright anger at the vote, but many have expressed displeasure." Of the 353 letters received by Democrat Flowers' office since the vote, almost two-thirds have condemned his position...
...executives are referred to by other Negroes as H.N.l.C.s (Head Nigger in Charge); they are assigned to public relations jobs or marketing to black customers but are isolated from real decision making. Yet quite a few blacks are climbing up the corporate ladder. In central Indiana, where the Ku Klux Klan once marauded, three blacks have risen to high management positions at the Cummins Engine Co. of Columbus. There are so many black bankers in Atlanta that they scarcely stir much interest any more, though eyebrows lifted when William Allison, a black antipoverty administrator, was recently named to the prestigious...
...harmless. He's not just "controversial" or "provoking". He is, instead, a destructive force who should not be lent respectability by colleges and television stations that allow him to speak. His Nobel prize and pseudo-scientific trappings don't make him any different from a Ku Klux klan chieftain--and KKK members don't get many speaking invitations on the Ivy League circuit...