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William E. Sampson, a 1973 Divinity School graduate, was among five persons killed during an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, N.C., Saturday. He was 31 years...
...ever seen a picture of the Rev. Jesse Jackson hugging the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan after they have beaten or murdered innocent black children, then I might be able to give more credence to his pompous piety...
...Shostakovich answers: "Just like that, so that they wouldn't get un derfoot." The blind men's songs had not been passed by the censor. "Mighty deeds were being done there," he adds with fu rious sarcasm. "Complete collectivization was under way, they had destroyed ku laks as a class, and here were these blind men, walking around singing songs of dubious content." Shostakovich vows that some day, the people who were respon sible for this and similar "evil deeds" will be brought to account, if only before their descendants. "If I didn't believe in that...
...fears.) When Pope Pius IX in the 1840s followed the example of European monarchs and sent a block of marble for the Washington Monument, a mob threw it into the Potomac. Through the 1850s, the violently antipapist Know-Nothing Party flourished, to be supplanted in succeeding generations by the Ku Klux Klan, which went after Catholics as well as Jews and blacks...
...truck and coach division, one of the nation's largest school bus manufacturers. One of the first Northern cities to carry out court-ordered desegregation, in 1971, Pontiac also became one of the first flash points of busing violence. White mothers chained themselves to block school buses. Six Ku Klux Klan members threw fire bombs. One woman even expressed her outrage by walking 620 miles to complain to Congressmen in Washington...