Word: kluxers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then came an embarrassing discovery. The Birmingham Post, a vigorous supporter of the inquiry, dug into the histories of the 18 new grand jurors and splashed its findings across Page One. One juror had been a Ku Kluxer himself. Another had served two years in prison for a felony, lost his citizenship rights. Five others, including the foreman, had police records for drunkenness or disorderly conduct. The only Negro on the grand jury could neither read nor write. Circuit Judge George Lewis Bailes decided there was only one "reasonable, humane and practical" way out: he fired the ex-convict from...
This week the judge himself had a little confession to make: he, too, had once been a Ku Kluxer, back...
Three years ago White had been sentenced. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reversed the conviction. He was tried again, convicted again. His case reached the U.S. Supreme Court, where the verdict was reversed. Texas officials applied for a rehearing but the court turned them down. Onetime Ku Kluxer Justice Hugo Black* angrily rehashed White's story of beatings and violence used to force a confession out of him, declared: "Due process of law, preserved for all by our Constitution, commands that no such practice as that . . . shall send any accused to his death...