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...unleavened Florida cracker from the upstate piney woods. A onetime railroad conductor, Johns had collected more than $70,000 from selling insurance to state agencies while presiding officer of the state senate. He had voted for legalized slot machines, against school construction and against unmasking the Ku Klux Klan...
After weighing the merits of white sheets and dark skins, South Carolina's unreconstructed Governor James Byrnes decided that neither the Ku Klux Klan nor the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People fits his idea of polite society. Said he: "I am happy to say that the Klan no longer exists in this state. I wish I could say the same about the N.A.A.C.P...
...Crusading Newspaperman Walter Horace Carter, 32, editor and co-publisher of the Tabor City (N.C.) Tribune, for his fight against the Ku Klux Klan (TIME...
...reference to the Civil War, Beer explained, "was a wild misstatement." He stated that it was "acceptable only if one forgets the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, the presidential campaign of 1928, and the industrial strife not far short of class war which developed during the New Deal period...
...What would be the reaction of Canadians," asked a Toronto Globe and Mail columnist last week, "if students at the University of Wisconsin draped themselves like the Ku Klux Klan, formed a procession and hanged and burned an effigy of Premier Leslie Frost. Prime Minister St. Laurent or George Drew...