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There are certain things that Harvard viably excludes from its history books: the oft-unfulfilled tradition of having sex in the Widener stacks, the unabridged history of the juggling club, the ingredients in emerald beef. Others are excluded on more tenuous grounds. The Harvard Ku Klux Klan falls into the latter category. You could spend an entire lifetime living at Harvard, never learning about the racism that once dominated campus affairs, unless you happened to stumble across file HUD 3502 deep within the annals of the Harvard archives. This is the story...
...Harvard branch of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1921 with the assistance of a Mr. W--the organizer of the Chicago chapter and an imperial officer in the Klan--and an unidentified...
...Indeed, on October 22, 1923, The Harvard Crimson published an article detailing the Klan's intentions to increase its membership in the coming weeks. It stated, "The Harvard Ku Klux Klan has only been waiting for the favorable moment to show its strength. And now there are indications that the next few weeks will see the largest drive for Klan membership...
...Internet, so why not a filter for the websites that are racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic? That's the idea behind the Anti-Defamation League's new HateFilter, a $30 program (available at adl.org designed to help parents shield their children from sites sponsored by groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation. Shading their eyes from hate, however, won't make it go away...
...GAINESVILLE, GA., Hall County sheriff Bob Vass warned Ku Klux Klan leaders they would be jailed if they tried, by holding a march on Halloween, to evade a state law that forbids wearing masks or hoods to conceal a person's identity. "If they've got on a Klan robe and a Klan hat and any type of mask, including a Mickey Mouse mask, they will be arrested," said Vass. And then have to deal with Michael Eisner, he might have added...