Word: klux
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Senate in 1927 on a platform of populism. As a loyal New Dealer, he was Franklin Roosevelt's first appointment after the F.D.R. court-packing plan had failed. Black's entry to the court was stormy, as newspaper stories revealed he had once been a Ku Klux Klan member. He conceded the affiliation but said it was in the past...
...club with perhaps the most diverse membership is the Fly. The Fly has an ostentatious club house and garden in front of Lowell House, and with four blacks, the Fly has 80 percent of all black club members. This is not likely to stir a revival of the Ku Klux Klan in New England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages...
Fire-Bombed Buses. The most notable trouble spot was in Pontiac, Mich., where ten school buses were fire-bombed on the eve of the academic year. Last week the FBI arrested six people, including Robert Miles, grand dragon of the Michigan Ku Klux Klan, and charged them with conspiracy to obstruct federal-court orders. In all, 48 people have been arrested in Pontiac in connection with antibusing protests, and a boycott organized by white parents is still effective. During the week, the absentee rate in the city's schools held steady...
...four cover stories in the past five weeks and eleven in the past six months. This week's cover story was written by B.J. Phillips and William Barnes. Phillips, a native Georgian, found the Mafia's "concern for violent retribution in many ways reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan...
Reports in the packet detail a Ku Klux Klan meeting held in a rural area of Pennsylvania, listing those present and describing a film of atrocities committed on blacks by Klan members. A memorandum dated October 1970 outlines attempts to gather information on the private lives and credit ratings of members of the militant Jewish Defense League...