Word: klux
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Atlanta's progressive image was severely tested in the early '80s by the murder of dozens of black children. White police suspected parents; African Americans saw the hand of the Ku Klux Klan; others believed that a child pornography ring was responsible. The killings abated after the arrest and conviction of Wayne Williams, a black photojournalist. But suspicions and suppositions continued. Bambara's posthumous docu-novel conveys the period's fear and conflict with a powerful blend of fact, fiction and indignation...
...home was half an hour away from Vineland, N.J., the Ku Klux Klan's largest center in the Northeast, she says. She served on a committee fighting hate crimes during her senior year, a time when her school was rife with racial tension...
Klan 1, Giuliani 0: A Federal judge ruled Thursday that New York City couldn't keep Ku Klux Klan members from wearing their notorious hoods to a downtown event scheduled for this Sunday. Citing a 155-year-old law against wearing masks at public rallies, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani had tried to put the kibosh on the KKK and at the same time make a few points as he gears up for his Senate run. The two-judge panel upheld the Klan?s claim that the masks were necessary precautions since the white supremacists faced major hostility among residents...
...Leakey gave occasional advice to the President, and in 1989 Moi made Leakey head of the Kenya Wildlife Service. Then came drama. Leakey quit and helped form an anticorruption opposition party; Moi branded him a neocolonial racist; a state-owned newspaper tied Leakey to the Ku Klux Klan; and progovernment thugs beat him when he attended a colleague's court hearing. "How much of it was deep [hatred] and how much of it was political, who knows?" says Leakey today...
Since I've never been to the museum, I can't argue with Sofen's claim that they treat the Ku Klux Klan flippantly. I only hope it wasn't as flippantly as Sofen laughs off the Union army's wartime atrocities. The most infamous case involved Union Gen. John B. Turchin who looted, plundered, raped and ravaged Athens, Ala., during the war. When he was court-martialled, he received a presidential pardon and was then promoted by Lincoln, sending a clear message that atrocities were not only acceptable, but encouraged...