Word: klux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pounded the bus and slashed its tires. As usual, local police had a gentleman's agreement with the Ku Klux Klan and stayed away. The bus limped five miles out of town, escorted by a caravan of pickup trucks, and stopped. Someone threw a fire bomb inside, and the crowd yelled, "Roast them! Burn them alive!" The Freedom Riders staggered off the smoking bus, and as one, Hank Thomas, hit the ground, reeling from fumes, a white man asked solicitously, "Are you O.K.?" And then took a baseball bat and swung at Thomas as hard as he could...
...weeks ago you called me a Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge. UPTON SINCLAIR Pasadena, Calif...
INAUGURATED. CHUCK BURRIS, 46, first African-American mayor of Stone Mountain, Ga., longtime headquarters of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...Quaker tradition of tolerance is being tested by uglier habits of mind, because the town has been buffeted by a series of racial incidents. In 1992 a bloody fight broke out between black and white students at an off-campus Wilmington College party. In 1993 and 1995 the Ku Klux Klan staged rallies at the courthouse; though fewer than 50 sympathizers showed up each time, black leaders were understandably concerned--and their fears were heightened last year when the Aryan Nation set up its Ohio headquarters in New Vienna, 10 miles from town. The high school has been dealing with...
...Drop in number of organized Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi groups, from...