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...activities have so far incurred no censure from the responsible citizens of Florida. Kasper admitted to a crime which is an affront to the segregationist ethic: he had danced, traveled, and corresponded with a Negro girls, whom he had met in his Greenwich Village bokstore: to the Ku Klux Klan, of course, all this equals miscegenation...
...your picture of the "Montgomery Battleground" is too much to take. My friends do not wear "wool hats" or carry sticks of dynamite, nor have they ever condoned any violence against the colored people or ever attended any mass meetings to organize against Negroes or belong to the Ku Klux Klan. That there are Christians among the ignorant whites may be almost unbelievable to your intelligent readers in the North. My friends do have one thing in common: they have or are becoming nonsubscribers and nonreaders of your magazine...
...hoodlumism, "are the people of Clinton going to continue to sit idly by and see their officials kicked around merely because they believe in law and order?" Georgia's Eastman Times-Journal (circ. 2,530), which was credited with killing off a postwar revival of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia in 1950. has been one of the few papers in the South to urge Negro voters to go to the polls...
Christmas-paroled (last on a list of 66 prisoners) in Indiana: onetime Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, D. C. Stephenson, 63, who had served 30-odd years for second-degree murder, been sprung in 1950 but was clapped back into prison for jumping his parole...
There is a pitiless closeup of an ailing, sorrowing Woodrow Wilson, after he had lost his crusade for internationalism-and an equally telling shot of Warren Gamaliel Harding as he testily misses a short putt. The Ku Klux Klan parades in great billowing ranks down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and through a flare-lit initiation ceremony in a Georgia glade. J. P. Morgan stares inscrutably through a Wall Street window, Josephine Baker struts her stuff at the U.S.-tourist-packed Folies-Bergère, Al Capone waddles contemptuously in and out of a courthouse, Babe Ruth rounds the bases...