Word: klux
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...hippie-style hair, Beards or drooping mustaches. Some of their leaders try to project an up-to-date image, sounding reasonable on TV talk shows and often wearing sober business suits. But at their rallies in the dark of night, today's self-styled knights of the Ku Klux Klan still wear white robes, burn crosses and spout the racist rhetoric of their grandfathers in the Klan's hey day of the 1920s, when klaverns across the country claimed millions of members...
...member United Klans of America, led by Robert Shelton, 50, a former tire salesman from Tuscaloosa, Ala. But his group has been waning in influence in the past few years. The South's most visible klavern now is the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which has about 2,500 gun-toting, violence-talking members. Their imperial wizard is Bill Wilkinson, 36, a former electrical contractor from Denham Springs, La., who travels from city to city in a private plane, recruiting members and staging demonstrations...
...five were killed last week in a "Smash the Klan" rally broken by members of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups who fired shots into the crowd...
...bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor, Jim Melvin, called it "one of the most hideous acts in America...
William E. Sampson, a 1973 Divinity School graduate, was among five persons killed during an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday. He was 31 years...