Word: ku
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...United Nations. Yasser Arafat has weathered a reputation as a terrorist long enough to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Alfonse D'Amato is serving out one more term, not in a penitentiary for corruption, but as New York's U.S. Senator. A couple of years ago, a former Ku Klux Klan leader as close to the governorship of Louisiana as North is to the Senate seat...
Thom Robb is a reconstructed racist. He calls himself the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, eschewing the hoary title of Imperial Wizard. Indeed, the lower ranks have been defanged as well. There are no more Grand Dragons, no more Great Titans. Gone too are the robes and hoods. "We don't hate blacks," declares Robb, who assumed the leadership in 1989. "We just love whites...
Divisions arise within the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...
...that time, Blacks were treated "in every aspect of life" as second class citizens, Seigenthaler said. Local authorities were often themselves involved with the Ku Klux Klan, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation hesitated to get involved," he said...
...taken its toll," says Ashley Phillips, director of the WomanCare clinic in San Diego. "I don't know how much more of this we're supposed to take." Following the killing, several members of Congress demanded that the FBI begin infiltrating radical antiabortionist groups as it has the Ku Klux Klan in the past. Harsh as that sounds, if Britton's death causes Phillips or other abortion providers to step down in fear, Griffin, Hill and others like them will have achieved the goal of all terrorism: to thwart the established policy of a nation through the pinpoint application...