Word: kued
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mattie Julian, Negress, of De Paul University, said: "Too many of the churches have ministers who belong to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Church people should support the anti-lynching...
...sees and feels a new America-an America of steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches with mingled horror and admiration...
...there any other names to match them on the rolls of Prohibition? All of these save William H. Anderson spoke. He was there as a delegate and as correspondent for The Fellowship Forum, a "Protestant paper" published at Washington (and favorable to the Ku Klux Klan...
...school pupil, bought a pair of baggy Oxford trousers, donned them, went to school. ... In half an hour Dale Sechrist wore no trousers at all, was unconscious. From an upper branch of a nearby tree, flouted by the wind, derided from below, Dale's baggy bags flew high. Ku Kluxing klassmates had not liked them...
Even though it invited negroes and Jews to join it, the Ku Klux Klan has just received a severe setback in two major attempts to gain political control of great population centers outside its main field of influence in the middle west and south. A week ago, Klan leaders, in their pre-election prophecies, were exultantly claiming Detroit and Buffalo as their own. Now press dispatches indicate that the anti-Klan candidates have been elected in both cities, although in each case the margin of victory was slim enough to show that the Klan's power over the more hysterical...