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...does the Ku Klux Klan, an organization that Reiter calls "an obvious villain" and does not defend for its views. In fact, the Klan's "reasons" is remarkably similar to the one given by the Hibernians: Biblical condemnation (which remarkably is not so "clear" as Reiter claims) of homosexuality. Most groups said individuals have "reasons" for their views: racial discrimination in the past was often justified because of a belief in the inferiority of non-white peoples, religious arguments against the mixing of races or simply a desire to be free from associating with "that type" of person, a claim...
...again? -- soon would be wiped out. The government reported that the U.S. (pop. 111,947,000) had 10 million registered passenger cars and 20,550,000 horses. A helicopter stayed aloft at 15 feet for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Southern blacks, hounded by poverty and a rampaging Ku Klux Klan, were moving to the North in large numbers...
What do the Ku Klux Klan and the Boy Scouts have in common? Not much. But recently, the fight against discrimination--once targeted at obvious villians such as the Klan and the American Nazi Party--has broadened to encompass such symbols of Americans as the Boy Scouts, the Army and the St. Patrick's Day Parade...
...over the next few years were all about dismemberment, blockage and fright. She is one of the younger artists who took heart from Philip Guston: in the early '70s, Guston, an abstract painter for years, had returned to the figure with a controversial set of seriocomic paintings of Ku Klux Klansmen, which laid the ground for his formidable "late" style and often featured stray boots, feet and arms...
...clinics and tried to block those entering. Faced with local officials who deemed such protests legal, abortion-rights advocates turned to the federal courts. There a number of judges were willing to restrain Operation Rescue through an 1871 federal civil rights law originally designed for use against the Ku Klux Klan. Women seeking abortions, the judges ruled, deserved the same protected status as blacks...