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...four occasions Ku Klux Klan members have driven by the Philadelphia office in pickup trucks, carrying rifles in their laps or in racks. COFO workers report that the Klansmen spin their tires, kicking up dust and dirt and forcing anyone in the road to leap aside for safety...
...appointment were equally bitter. Choleric ex-NRA Administrator Hugh Johnson denounced him as "a born witch burner -narrow, prejudiced, class-conscious." Not only did the New York Herald Tribune storm that he had "not the slightest qualification," but newsmen soon discovered that he had once been a Ku Klux Klansman. Black took to the radio to announce that he had indeed been a Klansman for a short time, added that he was not a bigot, and insisted that he would say no more about...
...funny. For instance, a "Right-Wing Palmistry Chart" contains an "itchy trigger finger" and a "party line." Instructions for "the extremist dance" include "take one step to the Right" and "swing over to the Left." Yok. A list of "known extremist groups" intersperses organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Muslims with thigh-slappers like the Mickey Mouse Club and Peter, Paul and Mary...
...NORTH CAROLINA. Even before the Civil Rights Act, the state had desegregated most of its public accommodations. For the first time, Wake Forest College added Negro football players to its freshman team. Western Carolina College boasted a Negro basketball star. Two Ku Klux Klansmen were given stiff jail terms for trying to burn a Negro church. Twenty-one school districts were integrated. More than 240,000 Negroes registered to vote...
...FLORIDA. Police, Ku Klux Klansmen and white gangs beat Negroes who tried to integrate St. Augustine restaurants, churches and beaches, and there was scattered violence in Jacksonville. Otherwise, Florida was generally calm. Negro enrollment in integrated schools grew from 5,000 to 8,000. Negro voting registration almost doubled, stands at about...