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...unique culture--not necessarily racist--for many established white Southern families. But the reaction to the Black protests by the white students has been blatantly reprehensible. Crank phone calls and death threats to Black student leaders, as well as a "Save the Flag" rally attended by robed Ku Klux Klansmen (seven pictures of which the yearbook printed) indicate the underlying prejudicial hatred still at oxford, Miss...
...they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority in New Jersey . . . one doubts if they would feel inclined to apologize for their earlier misgivings...
...Black student recalls, protests against the Ku Klux Klan and nationwide discrimination against Blacks were regularly tied in to anger about racial incidents and insensitivity on campus Students called for recognition of the importance of Black history in the form of an Afro-American Studies Department and, after the department was formed in 1969, continued to seek increased University support for that field of study...
...growing revulsion, particularly in the Lakefront wards, with the squalid campaign. He took the offensive by publicly confronting baseless rumors that he had been arrested for child molesting. He also aired a powerful television ad that showed a series of violent scenes from America's past: a Ku Klux Klan rally, the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., the Kent State shootings. It culminated with pictures of Epton supporters jeering Washington at a church on Palm Sunday. "There are moments in our history of which we are thoroughly and profoundly ashamed," said the narrator...
...demand further investigation and publication--the Black soldiers just returning from World War I who were lynched while still wearing their uniforms, the still-unsolved murders of 14 Black women in Boston over the last few years, the shooting of a nine-year-old Black girl by the Ku Klux Klan on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday--the list goes...