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...good ladies of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan are saving Green Stamps for an airplane for their noble, semiliterate leader [Nov. 12]. That is sickening, particularly to us in Taos, because we collect trading stamps too-for Christmas toys for children of poverty-stricken families. Our stamps are collected by people of three groups (Spanish-American, Indian, Anglo) for children of three groups in an area where these people have lived together cooperatively for years...
Last week 3,500 delegates of the North Carolina Baptist Convention condemned the Ku Klux Klan and its "perverted use of the Christian Cross." The week before, the Baptists of Virginia passed a resolution acknowledging "before God our partnership of guilt in the long, dark night of injustice and discrimination," and resolved that all Virginia Baptist congregations be encouraged to organize local Christian Life Commissions...
Even so, when Georgia and Mississippi failed to act in racial murders last year, the U.S. sought federal grand jury indictments under Section 241 against three lawmen, six Ku Klux Klansmen and 15 other private persons. Two federal judges tossed the indictments out, ruling that freedom from murder is not one of the rights protected by Section 241. On appeal to the Supreme Court last week, Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall argued that despite the 1951 ruling, the U.S. has power to "remove an obstruction interposed by a gang of toughs between Negroes and their constitutional rights." Speaking of Washington Negro...
...editor, and during eight succeeding years he made the World in his own image: argumentative, boisterous and usually entertaining. He gathered a staff that eventually included Walter Lippmann, Franklin P. Adams, Heywood Broun and Alexander Woollcott, won the paper two more Pulitzer Prizes for its exposes of the Ku Klux Klan and of prison conditions in Florida...
...turned out to be just the kind of dramatic local story that the Times's Metropolitan Editor Abe Rosenthal likes. It was a fresh and surprising New York sidebar to Ku Klux Klan investigations in Washington and Klan murders in the South. Phillips revealed that a top Klan Kleagle, Daniel Burros, 28, a violent anti-Semite, had been brought up as an Orthodox...