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...House Un-American Activities Committee, five Southerners joined the other four members in unanimously approving a full-scale investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Chairman Edwin E. Willis, a Louisiana Democrat, a preliminary study showed that "shocking crimes are carried out by highly secret action groups within the Klans." And despite the committee's disrepute in some quarters for its blunt and into-every-corner antiCommunism, there were signs that it might prove the sharpest ax on Capitol Hill for cutting the Klan down to size. "Klanism is incompatible with Americanism," said Chairman Willis. "The South...
...occupy their time, got together to form a club. Like college kids, they gave the club all the trappings of a fraternity-mysterious rites, initiations, secret words. For a name, they hit on the Greek word for circle, kyklos, gave it a few twists and came up with Ku Klux Klan. For kicks, they made robes and hoods out of bedsheets and pillowcases, and took to riding sheet-draped horses solemnly through the town at night. Soon they discovered that their frolics frightened superstitious Negroes, and that was reason enough for scores of others to join...
...Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men," and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...white racists of Alabama, in characteristic fashion, shattered that peace by murdering a white woman from Detroit. This act of moronic savagery once again outraged the national conscience, provoked the President of the U.S. into a nationwide television outburst, in which he announced the arrest of four Ku Klux Klansmen and demanded that Congress curb the Klan...
...assassinate Dr. King before this fight is over, but that will detract nothing from his accomplishments. They shot Gandhi, Lincoln and Kennedy, but monuments are erected to their memories. They had clubs and bullwhips in Christ's day but they didn't have rednecks and Ku Klux Klansmen walking along dropping tear-gas grenades beside the helpless victims. 1 have seen numerous dead and wounded on the battlefield, but 1 have never seen enemy wounded subjected to such barbarity...