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William E. Sampson, a 1973 Divinity School graduate, was among five persons killed during an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday. He was 31 years...
...ever seen a picture of the Rev. Jesse Jackson hugging the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan after they have beaten or murdered innocent black children, then I might be able to give more credence to his pompous piety...
...When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble for the Washington Monument, a mob threw it into the Potomac. Through the 1850s, the violently antipapist Know-Nothing Party flourished, to be supplanted in succeeding generations by the Ku Klux Klan, which went after Catholics as well as Jews and blacks...
...coach division, one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers. One of the first Northern cities to carry out court-ordered desegregation, in 1971, Pontiac also became one of the first flash points of busing violence. White mothers chained themselves to block school buses. Six Ku Klux Klan members threw fire bombs. One woman even expressed her outrage by walking 620 miles to complain to Congressmen in Washington...
...role of her father deftly shades his performance so that it explains not only his character but also where Norma Rae got her fire-cracking sparkle. The ensemble acting of the management staff in the factory deserves kudos as well. Rather than performing as a contingent from the Ku Klux Klan in mufti, the six men act with an understated assurance which suggests, but does not exaggerate, both their down-home humanity and their anti-semitic hostility to Reuben--who does go out of his way to alienate them by swooping in on the factory like an ACLU avenging angel...