Word: ku
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...segregation in Alton's schools, and Gill was openly in the anti-segregation fight. One day 175 Negro boys & girls tried to register at five grade schools and two junior high schools. Gill organized his fellow ministers to supervise the demonstration and prevent trouble. When crosses in the Ku Klux Klan tradition were burned on the riverfront to intimidate the Negroes, Gill's pulpit denunciation, and a newspaper statement which 17 other ministers signed, were the only voices in Alton raised publicly in opposition...
...century. Its rambling, episodic story, adapted by Joe David Brown from his own novel, follows the town parson (Joel McCrea) through a typhoid epidemic, a friendly joust with a local skeptic (the late Alan Hale), a feud with a young, unproven doctor (James Mitchell), a brush with the Ku Klux Klan on behalf of a Negro parishioner (Juano Hernandez...
Larry is a "progressive student." He has found out that father is not only an atomic scientist but a warmonger with Ku Klux Klan connections. Sample dialogue...
Larry: Wouldn't it interest you that MacFarren has organized a secret Ku Klux group...
When he got back to Dallas, he was offered a job by a News editor who said: "You can cover City Hall. It's a Ku Klux Klan administration and we are an anti-Klan paper. Now do you want it?" Rosenfield said yes, made good at the job and later got the chance to be amusements editor. When one of his first reviews praised a local production of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, Publisher George Bannerman Dealey called him on the carpet for saying nice things of a play about a prostitute. Rosenfield convinced Dealey...