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...primary three weeks ago. His 34,000 plurality in a field of 14, segregationists all. made him odds-on favorite to win the June 3 runoff for Democratic nomination, which means election. Last week one powerful reason came to light: Patterson is the candidate of the Ku Klux Klan. now making its boldest bid for public power and approval since the corn-pone days...
...small businessmen, small farmers, sharecroppers; like most Indians, they prefer to keep to themselves while maintaining fairly good relations with the 40,000 whites and 25,000 Negroes in the area. But last week in Robeson County, there sounded ancient Indian anger. The Lumbees were out against the Ku Klux Klan, an organization of sons of immigrants who have long cried their devotion to 100% Americanism, white division...
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Died. Ray Sprigle, 71, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reporter, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1938) for revealing that Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black had been a Ku Klux Klansman; of injuries suffered in an auto crash; in Pittsburgh...
...before an all-white male jury in Circuit Judge Alta L. King's Birmingham courtroom last week: Bart A. Floyd, 31, second Ku Klux Klansman to stand trial for castrating a Negro in a deserted Alabama shack last September. The verdict: guilty of mayhem. The sentence, the same administered a fortnight earlier to one of Floyd's partners in crime: 20 years' imprisonment, the maximum sentence under Alabama law. "The sentence," said the Alabama-born Judge King, "is not nearly commensurate with the crime. You have disrupted the friendly relations between the races. You have drawn...