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Weaver noted that the Ku Klux Klan seems to have been revived in the southern part of the state. "Five Negroes have been killed in the last two weeks. We don't know that it was the Klan, but it was Klan style," he said. "People don't ordinarily get killed the way these people were...
Connally was regularly re-elected to the House until 1928, when he decided to try for the Senate. He mounted a campaign that put him foursquare against the Ku Klux Klan and in favor of Al Smith for President. Neither position was popular in Texas, but he won anyway. In the Senate, Connally backed most of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation, but he refused to vote for the National Industrial Recovery Act, battled fiercely against FDR's 1937 effort to pack the Supreme Court. In 1938 Connally led a filibuster to defeat an antilynching bill, claimed...
...Little, Too Soon. Sure enough. Within hours, two men were arrested by Wallace's troopers. One was a red neck truck driver named Robert E. Chambliss, 59, an incorporator of Alabama's Ku Klux Klan who was indicted, then acquitted, in 1949 for flogging a white man while masked. The other was Charles Cagle, 22, a laborer who was arrested last June for carrying a concealed weapon as he went to a Klan rally near Tuscaloosa. Later Wallace's police arrested Truck Driver John W. Hall...
...McNamara. Finally the businessmen gave halfhearted agreement to King's demands-but there was no assurance that they could persuade Birmingham's segregationist politicians to go along. "We'll Kill You." It was a truce-but there was to be no peace. Saturday night, after a Ku Klux Klan meeting near Birmingham, two dynamite bombs demolished the home of the Rev. A. D. King, brother of Martin King. The minister, his wife and five children raced to safety just before the second blast. Suddenly, the street filled with Negroes. They hurled stones at policemen, slashed car tires...
...Jones. 54, landscape painter and muralist, a St. Louis housepainter's son who burst on the art world in the depressed '30s with a Manhattan exhibition of raw, shocking canvases (among them: American Justice, showing a half-naked, just-lynched prostitute against a background of quietly chatting Ku Klux Klansmen), over the years mellowed and developed a softer Japanese-like style in easel paintings, covers for TIME (travel, Christmas shopping), and in sweeping landscape murals, one of the best of which, a 40-ft. by 8-ft. scene of Boston Harbor, adorns the dining salon...