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...though, does not please Walter Goodman, author of The Committee, who sees HUAC's name as a perverse but lovable piece of Americana. "There is nothing un-American about the Un-American Activities Committee...just as there is nothing un-American about union-busting, anti-Semitism, or the Ku Klux Klan." For all its patriotism and bad meter, "HUAC" had a good chilling sound...
...several prohibit conspiracy to deprive any citizen of his civil rights, and last week a federal judge in Vicksburg concluded that one of man's most basic civil rights is his right to live. U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox, a stubborn segregationist, decided that the Ku Klux Klan, and three of its former members accused of killing a Negro, should pay damages...
...told a crowd of 10,000 in Knoxville. "He stands, and he has always stood, as the apostle of the politics of fear and racism," cried the Vice President. "Some of his political managers and even some of his presidential electors are drawn from the ranks of the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens Councils, the John Birch Society, the armed Minutemen, or groups dedicated to the promotion of anti-Semitism." Humphrey was just warming up. He called Wallace a demagogue and compared him to Hitler. "He has sought to inflame fear, frustration and prejudice," he said. "He pretends...
Violence, Rap Brown observed, "is as American as cherry pie." History that most whites would rather forget supports him. Quite aside from the Ku Klux Klan's brand of oppression in the South, Northern whites rampaged against Negroes in riots in New York City; Springfield, Ohio; Greensburg, Ind.; Springfield, Ill.; East St. Louis, Ill.; and Detroit long before Negro upheavals came into vogue. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission counted 2,595 lynchings of Negroes in Southern states between 1882 and 1959. Not one resulted in a white man's conviction. Den nis Clark, writing in the Jesuit magazine...
...Mississippi in 1955, but Huie paid enough to get a complete account of the crime for Look magazine. Three years ago, Huie disclosed the facts in the case of the murder of the three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss. After a few midnight meetings with greedy Ku Klux Klan informers, he reconstructed the event for the New York Herald Tribune...