Word: klux
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Greensboro Shootout The article about the Ku Klux Klan shootout [Nov. 12] makes Greensboro, N.C., sound like the most racially disturbed city in the South. It is correct that Greensboro has been the scene of many civil rights protests in the past, but our community has grown together, both blacks and whites, to become one of the best of cities to live...
...shootout on Nov. 3 was not an act of Greensboro citizens but of two sickminded organizations from outside our community. Why Greensboro was picked for such ill-considered actions by the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Viewpoint Organization is a question that everyone here would like answered...
...wonder how many more Greensboros will occur before this country realizes that the Ku Klux Klan is the most dangerous element in today's society, trying to take race relations back some 400 years. Wake up, America; an ugly disease is spreading across the land-the Ku Klux Klan...
...slickest faction is the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which is headed by David Duke of Metairie, La. His 2,000 followers have tried to make racism more respectable by publicly condemning violence and recruiting a variety of middle-class professionals. Duke, 29, a smooth-talking graduate of Louisiana State University, ran for the Louisiana state senate, coming in second in a four-man race last week...
...Goodpaster after a two-month investigation by the Academy's inspector general. He found that in another case, a cadet was forced by male classmates to strip; then he was tied up and his genitals were sprayed with shaving cream. Some hazers dressed up in mock Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods fashioned out of bed sheets. Academy authorities denied that the cadets were being racist, and in fact at least one black cadet donned a K.K.K. costume. Said Goodpaster: "These aren't bad cadets, but they got carried away...