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...protest, Negroes-who outnumber whites almost 2 to 1 in Taliaferro County-mounted a daily campaign to board the public school buses that carry white children to nearby communities. By last week the daily scrimmage had aroused one of Georgia's worst racial flare-ups in years. The Ku Klux Klan announced its own drive to "increase tension" in Crawfordville, and for good measure Georgia Klan Dragon Calvin Craig got himself arrested on assault and battery charges for roughing up a Crawfordville Negro demonstrator. Hosea Williams, a Southern Negro leader directing the Crawfordville campaign, vowed that he would "call...
Also on hand was a sympathetic delegation from Alabama's Ku Klux Klan, There was 21-year-old Klansman Collie Leroy Wilkins, himself accused of murdering a civil rights worker, Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo; Wilkins, whose trial in the same courtroom ended in a hung jury, will return there for retrial this month. Near him sat Alabama Grand Dragon Robert Creel and a muscular, crew-cut man portentously identified as chief of the K.B.I.-the Klan Bureau of Investigation...
Before I knew the man, I imagined Hodding Carter alone, hunched over a recalcitrant typewriter in a musty, night-time newsroom, surrounded by Ku Klux Klansmen. In my reverie, he brushed aside like flies the bullets that flew through the paneless windows and fanned his ears. A thin smile formed around his non-filter cigarette as he banged out on his balky machine the fire-breathing tag to the next day's scathing editorial. Hodding Carter, 30-year-old crusading editor of the Delta Democrat-Times, knee-deep in the mire called Mississippi, clawing at the Magnolia Curtain...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "K.K.K. -The Invisible Empire," a filmed-from-the-inside report on the Ku Klux Klan...
Fire, Burn. Even before formation of the Mid-Western province in 1963, Owegbe was active as a kind of Ku Klux Klan to protect backward Beni tribesmen against the political inroads of their more aggressive, better educated neighbors, the Yorubas and the Ibos. When the pushy Ibos captured the post of provincial prime minister in the traditional home of the Benis-Benin City-Owegbe leaders were humiliated and ordered a rampage of terror, filling Nigerian newspapers with stories of Owegbe beatings and intimidations...