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Klan to Cattle Dips. That course has had its pitfalls. In its preoccupation with political judgments, the News stands in some danger of being a newspaper whose strength lies mostly in its shout. Its last major crusade came in 1924, when it helped chase the Ku Klux Klan out of Texas, although Dealey is still fond of pointing out that the News was the first Southern newspaper to call venereal diseases by their right names and the first paper in Texas to crusade for arsenical cattle dips. The News has only two staffers outside of Texas: Washington Correspondents Robert...
During the worst part of his harassment by Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens' Council members, "the only people in Savannah who were of comfort were three Protestant ministers," Eisenman related. "The police would say, 'You're a good guy, Abe, and you shouldn't take up for niggers...
...long as I don't get too big, and in the North they don't care how big I get as long as I don't get too close." And some is farcically broad, as when he tells about three white brothers called Ku, Klux and Klan, who once surrounded him in a restaurant saying. "You can't eat that chicken in here; whatever you do to that chicken, we're going to do to you." What did Gregory do? "I kissed the chicken...
...Brainwashed." But the truth was that all day plans were being laid for violence. In one nearby town, the mayor publicly offered to go bail for anybody arrested. Athens (pop. 20,000) filled with rednecks from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life...
...Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan, and finally with the constantly dissenting La Follette." Once, on a wild impulse, carrying dissent further, young Dalton asked his father for $18 so he could join the Ku Klux Klan. ("There was only one Negro in town and I was his friend, but it was a movement everyone was terribly interested in joining.") His father talked...