Word: klux
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN THE KU Klux Klan and a group of rednecks disrupted a civil rights march through the all-white Georgia county, many were justifiably shocked and outraged. Coretta Scott King, for one, announced that the incident proved that racism was alive and well in the United States...
Jeering at the marchers along the roadway and at the county courthouse in Cumming was a mob of about 1,000 whites wearing the face of hatred. White- robed thugs from the Ku Klux Klan shouting "Go home, niggers!" Out-of- state zealots who call themselves Aryans and dementedly pledge allegiance to Adolf Hitler. Young kids too, in checked shirts and baseball caps, waving the Confederate flag. A few stones were thrown, and one woman was hit by a bottle...
...racial slur was painted on the steps of Smith College a week after the World Series. Rumors floated that a white student in a Ku Klux Klan outfit at a Halloween party won a prize for the costume. Black women complained of stepped up harassment...
...last political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick, who has the backing of businessmen and the Ku Klux Klan...
...remind the city of the disquieting past, Wayne Williams, convicted killer of two of the Atlanta youths, was again in the headlines. Last week USA Today reported that the Georgia bureau of investigation destroyed evidence that it had received from an informant about possible links between the Ku Klux Klan and the child killings. Williams' prosecutors say investigators concluded that the Klan was not connected with the murders. But Williams' lawyers are arguing that the state's "cover-up" entitles their client to a new trial...