Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interview with a New Hampshire Ku Klux Klan leader--next to a doctored photo of a Black student being lynched on campus...
...there except Eddie Mathews, who had the only inside-the-tree home run. Major league teams barnstorming north from the spring camps always stopped off to play the Crackers. In 1947 Jackie Robinson first set foot out of Florida there, and 27,000 people overflowed the park. The Ku Klux Klan promised that someone would be shot. Nobody...
Morris Udall, 59, Democratic Congressman, on the difference between the Supreme Court and the Ku Klux Klan: "One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks...
...HARD to believe that the South of William Faulkner. Gone With the Wind and the Ku Klux Klan could produce Rita Mac Brown. In her latest novel. Southern Discomfort--which is filled with her signature wit and warmth--Brown follows several of Motgomery. Alabama's more interesting citizens as they wander through a sexual and social labyrinth as only a candid, radical feminist...
...Friedman), a West Pointer, is to meet Captain Richard Davenport (Charles Brown), the black officer assigned by the Army to investigate Waters' murder. Almost inadvertently, he says to Davenport: "Being in charge does not look right on Negroes." Besides, the prime suspects are local stalwarts of the Ku Klux Klan. What Deep South white man would testify before a black? Davenport is a seasoned skirmisher on the color line. He is adamant, but scrupulously fairminded...