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...have been appropriate. Lisa Kelley fared a little better as Cressida, probably because the script requires one hell of a character change whether the actress likes it or not, but she spent most of her time struggling with difficult verse and a very strange costume reminiscent of early Ku Klux Klan...
...were soon briefed on the city's more relevant distinctions. Indianapolis is the site of the American Legion's National Headquarters; the home of the John Birch Society; and a few weeks earlier the Ku Klux Klan had received a permit for a full-dress parade down the main street. Not quite the peace candidate's territory...
...York City that killed an estimated 2,000 people and injured 8,000. The Civil War killed 500,000 soldiers-the equivalent of 3,000,000 in today's U.S. Afterward, the supposedly defeated white South defeated Reconstruction with a guerrilla war in which the Ku Klux Klan and other whites killed thousands of would-be Negro voters, imposed segregation, and infected the North with the very racism that the Civil War supposedly ended. Over the years, a dozen or more major Northern race riots followed the same pattern: whites invading black neighborhoods and killing scores of Negroes...
...past skirted a definite position on the race issue, McGill has consistently scored all forms of Southern extremism. Some of his most notable editorial writing, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958, has been in angry pursuit of the Ku Klux Klan and other advocates of violence. "To the Kluxer mentality," he wrote in one anthologized column, "the Christian communion cup must be a Dixie...
...took a jury only two hours last week to convict Ku Klux Klanner Ce cil Sessum in the fire-bombing death two years ago of Storekeeper Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, the first time an all-white state jury had convicted a Mississippi white man in the death of a Negro civil rights worker...