Word: klux
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the first time around, changed his mind and voted for the final version, and was reelected. He was assigned to the House Un-American Activities Committee and then startled its members by calling for an investigation of the Ku Klux Klan...
...colleagues: "There are two kinds of people in the world-winners and losers. I knew a loser once and he was a queer." ("That's a joke," he added.) On another occasion he told newsmen in a background briefing that he did not mind if there were Ku Klux Klansmen on the Mississippi desegregation advisory committee. Asked by a reporter if he could print that remark. Mardian nodded: "Yes-if you print that we've got N.A.A.C.P. officials on the committee as well. We need to get people together who don't talk to each other...
Such punishment dates to the twelfth century, when miscreant Crusaders serving under Richard Coeur de Lion were doused with hot pitch and then feathered. It has since been associated with America's Ku Klux Klan, but the fact is that the I.R.A. routinely used it through the 1930s. Disturbed by the rising crime in Falls Road, where the predominantly Protestant police force rarely dares to tread, the I.R.A. decided to revive the punishment for lawbreakers. So did a more militant "provisional" faction of the underground army, which sprang up during the 1969 rioting throughout Northern Ireland...
...clerical garb at the typewriter, he wrote an outspoken column for the Houston Post. Reaction was angry. Twenty-three Houston priests denounced his preconvention column as irresponsible troublemaking. Black radicals within the church were so offended by Kinsolving's attacks (he has compared black caucuses to the Ku Klux Klan) that...
...Klux Klan of the early 1920's reportedly had between three and four million members, came close to dominating both major party conventions in 1924, yet looking back on it, we can see that it lost half its membership in 1925, and was practically dead by 1926. No one in 1924 would have possibly predicted such a rapid decline, and even now with the benefit of hindsight, it is hard to tell why the people who moved to join from 1920-1924 dropped it so totally in 1925-1926, (Joe) McCarthyism was basically a four year phenomenon...