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Ladies' Auxiliary. By such tactics, the Ku Klux Klan is seeking a new respectability-and new members-throughout the Deep South. Its meetings are often held in the banquet halls of metropolitan hotels, just as peaceably as the Jaycees. When race trouble flares, Klan security men, wearing white helmets, sometimes circulate through crowds, calming whites. Declares North Carolina Grand Dragon James R. Jones: "The reborn Klan is absolutely nonviolent. We don't allow rabble-rousers." Says Imperial Wizard Bobby Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Ala.: "We want the kind of people in the Klan like businessmen who build...
...Eastern Arkansas, and all of Mississippi. In these areas machine guns and bombs are freely used against the Negro population. According to Robert Moses, SNCC project director in Mississippi, there have been 180 cross burnings, five killings, several shootings, and at least three whippings in Mississippi since the Ku Klux Klan reorganized shortly after President Kennedy's death...
From Greenwood down to Jackson...My first real taste of the Mississippi sun dropping westward ever so slowly and flaying the cotton-frothed, billiard table flatness of the Delta. Stilted shacks in willow-ringed hollows; tall merciless lilywhite factory stacks; "The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Welcome you to Tchula;" grinning, barefoot, ragged black boys skimming along the highway on a pickup truck; Tall, gaunt, stooped, tobacco chewing, strawhatted farmers--black and white. Neat brick middle-class American homes...Troopers and policemen everywhere, fat comic opera sherrifs in stenciled boots and stetsons. "K.O. the Kennedys!--Vote Rubel Phillips...
Weaver noted that the Ku Klux Klan seems to have been revived in the southern part of the state. "Five Negroes have been killed in the last two weeks. We don't know that it was the Klan, but it was Klan style," he said. "People don't ordinarily get killed the way these people were...
Connally was regularly re-elected to the House until 1928, when he decided to try for the Senate. He mounted a campaign that put him foursquare against the Ku Klux Klan and in favor of Al Smith for President. Neither position was popular in Texas, but he won anyway. In the Senate, Connally backed most of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, but he refused to vote for the National Industrial Recovery Act, battled fiercely against FDR's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. In 1938 Connally led a filibuster to defeat an antilynching bill, claimed...