Word: klux
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Though officials have sharply tightened security on the campuses and the FBI is investigating the incidents at Williams, Wesleyan and Harvard for possible civil rights violations, there is no evidence of who is behind the racist campaign, whether isolated individuals or concerted groups. Despite the Ku Klux Klan references and implications, there is no proof that the Klan is involved...
...students are quick to point out that the events at Harvard must be viewed within a national context which, in the past few months, has included cross burnings at Williams and Purdue, threats similar to the Harvard ones at Wesleyan and Cornell and the recent acquittal of six Ku Klux Klansmen in Greensboro...
...ended the 22-week trial-the longest in North Carolina's history-of four Ku Klux Klansmen and two members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Party. The charges: killing five members, four white and one black, of the Communist Workers Party at a C.W.P.-sponsored "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro in November 1979. The outcome drew predictably inflammatory responses from both extremist camps. Calling the verdict "a great victory for white America," North Carolina Nazi Leader Harold Covington maintained that it proved "we can beat the system on their own ground." Signe Waller, a C.W.P. member...
...Cudjoe's piece, is no mere bourgeois "ideological apparatus" seeking "to make the natives fight among themselves," unlike the New York Times and the rest of "The Press." Mr. Cudjoe claims that Gershman and Klitgaard simply perpetrate "another ideological onslaught ... against Black America, the activities of the Ku Klux Klan being the more vulgar manifestation of the same phenomenon." He further accuses them of "pseudo-intellectualism and militant racist assumptions." But where is the Klan-like racism in the Klitgaard report? In pointing out test score discrepancies? If there were no such discrepancies in Black and white scores (and other...
Faculty and students this week attacked the acquital Monday of four Ku Klux Klansmen and two Nazis accused of murder and rioting in connection with the deaths of five Communist Workers Party members in Greensboro, North Carolina last November...