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...their defeated brethren, and many Southerners headed West, carrying Scriptures in their saddlebags and baptizing new converts in the creeks and cow ponds of the prairies. Out of the hellfire tradition of revival-tent meetings grew an uglier tradition of prejudice and violence. The burning crosses of the Ku Klux Klan were a grotesque perversion of Christian principles, but an image was formed. "It became dangerous in the South to be intelligent," as H.L. Mencken scolded during the heyday of Klan power in the 1920s. "Every Baptist pastor became a neighborhood Pope ... Every pastor was a chartered libertine, free...
...nurtured in militancy, the black press long made a rough and sometimes roisterous contribution to U.S. news reporting. Thirty years ago the Pittsburgh Courier had 23 editions, a circulation of 355,000 and an instinct for the jugular. It once hired a white reporter to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, and conducted a public fund drive to pay Jackie Robinson's travel expenses to Brooklyn after the Dodgers said they were ready to break baseball's color line. The Baltimore-based Afro-American chain told its 154,000 readers what was happening in their communities at a time...
...self-righteousness of minority-group spokesmen who angrily contend that affirmative action is the only way to end supposed biases in school admission and hiring policies. Clearly, affirmative action is a blatant form of racism, no less reprehensible than that practiced by right-wing extremists such as the Ku Klux Klan. It is just as despicable, unfair, and undesirable. Of course, it is hardly surprising that those who benefit from it and those who would fail to succeed without such favoritism would attempt to conceal its true racist and sexist nature in some sort of warmed-over polemic. Yet such...
WELL. Byrd is a good ole boy, came up the hard way and all that. The last time he ran for the Senate he got 90 per cent of all votes cast. He's the Senate Democratic whip. He's also a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, and he voted against every civil rights measure in the '60s, including the extension of the Voting Rights Act in 1970. Senator Byrd is liberalizing himself lately, probably because he wants to be majority leader...
With a paranoid compulsion, the agencies developed lists of troublesome or potentially troublesome Americans. These included members of organizations on the right (the John Birch Society, Ku Klux Klan) as well as the left (the Socialist Workers Party, Students for a Democratic Society). The FBI kept handy a list of people-26,000 strong at one point-who were to be detained during a national emergency (including Novelist Norman Mailer). The Army accumulated the names of 100,000 people who were involved, even tangentially, in political protest activities (including Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III, who made the list for merely...