Word: ku
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Lillian D. Ku '97 says she agrees...
...suppose I have always known it, but like many, I did not want to believe it. I remember being quite frightened as a child when I saw footage of dogs attacking children during civil rights demonstrations or when the terrorism of the Ku Klux Klan was portrayed in movies. I couldn't sleep for weeks after viewing movies like "North and South" or "Roots" because of the brutal depictions of slavery. Like many children, I applied what I saw to my own reality. I lay awake for hours imagining that the sick men dressed in sheets on television would invade...
...organization that was created in the 1950s to defend states rights and white purity against desegregation. It members included redneck sheriffs and snitches, and it financially aided White Citizens Councils, another perversely racist organization whose members wore suits instead of sheets. One of the Commission's agents informed the Ku Klux Klan of the license plate number of the car which the Freedom Summer martyrs James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman were driving. The car was stopped by Klansmen all three were murdered...
History & Literature Concentrator; Radcliffe Varsity Crew Team; Prefect Program; Varsity Club Executive Committee; Ku'umba Singers...
...bring on a patchwork of taxpayer-supported ideological enclaves--not just Christian, Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, but schools arranged by black and white separatists and one-of-a-kind cults, all producing students who could be strangers (and worse) to one another. "There will be Farrakhan schools and probably Ku Klux Klan schools," says Albert Shanker, father figure of the American Federation of Teachers, the smaller of the two national teachers unions. "We're starting to move down the road of Quebec and Bosnia...