Word: kluxes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...
With various Alabamian friends as guides he wandered over most of the State: through the Black Belt, studded with old plantations; the Red Hills, where the mountaineers still have no use for Ne groes or revenuers; the swampy Cajan country. He watched a Ku Klux meeting, was on the fringes of a lynching, visited with moonshiners, asked an old conjure woman for professional advice, heard a fiddlers' contest, listened to Negro preachers, attended a footwashing service of Hardshell Baptists. He discovered why the roads in Winston County are worse than their neighbors': the mountaineers there were still being...
...hooded head of the Ku Klux Klan was raised in Alabama last week as the State held its Democratic run-off primaries, tantamount to election. Bibb Graves, onetime (1927-31) Governor, became the first man in 33 years to succeed to that office a second time. Defeated by 20,000 votes, Major Frank M. Dixon, Birmingham lawyer, loudly cried that Graves's victory was a triumph for the long dormant Klan. Not only did Bibb Graves deny the accusation, but the Grand Dragon of the State assured one & all that only six of his Klaverns are now active, none...
Decade ago the No. 1 business in race prejudice in the U. S. was the Ku Klux Klan which passed its heyday when the huge profits of its rulers were disclosed and some of them were sent to prison. The Klan still functions from its Georgia headquarters and claims to be coming back but the rise of Mussolini's black shirts and Hitler's brown shirts gave a new twist to the racial clothing business. Sheets were changed for shirts. New organizations sprang up in which Klan philosophy, Fascist ideas and economic nostrums were crossbred to appeal...
...slave trader lashing a black; the Boston Massacre with Crispus Attucks in the centre; Thomas Paine and the "Rights of Man"; the Declaration of Independence; Thomas Jefferson; the Whiskey Rebellion; the Annexation of Texas; gold in California; John Brown arming the slaves; John Brown on the gallows; the Ku Klux Klan; Karl Marx-on through riots, strikes, lynchings, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler (with a pansy in his necktie) to a scene of violence and confusion superimposed by a placard: WORKERS UNITE OR THE BLUE EAGLE WILL WEAR A BROWN SHIRT. NRA PAVES THE WAY FOR FASCISM...