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...that didn't stop the Ku Klux Klan from planting in fertile soil...
...Christian Leadership Conference appeared in front of the city hall and put up tents on the grass. Hines' arrest was "a setup," said the Rev. R.B. Cotton-reader, a leader of the S.C.L.C. "Decatur was being pressed for an arrest and conviction for those rapes." Then came the Ku Klux Klan, which set up its own tents. On Aug. 14 it burned a cross before the civic center...
...century ago, Muncie was an isolated agricultural town, the former headquarters of the Northern Ku Klux Klan. By the time the Lynds arrived in 1924, it was industrialized and dominated by the Ball family, who built a thriving fruit-jar industry as well as the local hospital, Ball State University and most of the rest of town. Its population of 36,000-50,000 by the time of the second Lynd report-was 90% white and 95% Protestant, and struggling to cope with layoffs, a new trend toward secularization, women's voting and flapper ideas about...
Noisiest of the opponents, predictably, was Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who declared that "Camp David is a dirty deal and Carter will pay for it." While making a campaign stop in Pittsburgh later in the week, Carter compared the P.L.O. to the Ku Klux Klan, the Communist Party and the Nazis. Added the President: "It would be nice for us if they would just go away." From Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev came a searing denunciation of the summit talks, which he said made the Middle East "more explosive than ever...
...life. Last January a cross was burned in front of the one-story brick office he rents in the warehouse district of Jackson, Miss. The same night, hoodlums hurled a brick through the window with the warning, "You are being watched by the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...