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...YEARS and more the United States has been generally free of what Europeans would call "Men of the Right." An amalgam of radical individualism and nativist Main Street values--anti-black, anti-foreign, fundamentalist--has historically passed as a unique American conservatism. Barry Goldwater and the Ku Klux Klan stand as separate archetypes, both backward-looking but emphasizing different elements of a preferred American past; the first upholding rugged and unfettered entrepeneurial skill in an age of strangulating bureaucracies, and the second a world of small-town community unperturbed by urban industrialization and its symbols...
...Stephens' pupils had asked to transfer to schools in adjoining counties. Taliaferro school buses were then used to carry the whites to schools outside the county. When black students tried to board the buses, their way was blocked; in one demonstration, the Grand Dragon of Georgia's Ku Klux Klan attacked a black student who was trying to climb on a bus full of whites...
...when Stokely Carmichael staged his Mississippi March from Alabama, Doar and Nesson were working in Lowndes County there, known as "Bloody Lowndes." Doar and Nesson brought about the first convictions of Ku Klux Klan members before an all-white jury for violence against black citizens...
...Nesson, probably because of his modest manner, remains unknown to many undergraduates and even law students here. The defender of Ellsberg and Edelin, the prosecutor of the Ku Klux Klan, the battler against wiretapping plays it quiet and close to his chest. "I prefer," he says, "to remain out of the public...
...Actress Candice Bergen, 29, described her newest role, that of photojournalist on NBC's early morning Today Show. Starting in January, Bergen will appear once a week to display her photographs and provide accompanying commentary on subjects ranging from rodeos and aging to feminism and the Ku Klux Klan. "I don't call myself a seasoned journalist, but I've been taking pictures since I was 19," said Candy, a touch defiantly...