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...Brainwashed." But the truth was that all day plans were being laid for violence. In one nearby town, the mayor publicly offered to go bail for anybody arrested. Athens (pop. 20,000) filled with rednecks from all around, including Calvin F. Craig, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, whose pistol-packing henchmen energetically passed out their racist sheet, The Rebel. One of the university's own regents, Georgia Kingmaker Roy V. Harris, charged that President Aderhold and Dean of Men William Tate "brainwashed" the school into accepting Negroes; Harris vowed to spend the rest of his life...
...from the Union until she died. My grandfather joined with the dissent of the Populists, then with the dissent of Bryan, and finally with the constantly dissenting La Follette." Once, on a wild impulse, carrying dissent further, young Dalton asked his father for $18 so he could join the Ku Klux Klan. ("There was only one Negro in town and I was his friend, but it was a movement everyone was terribly interested in joining.") His father talked...
...copies of an issue of the United Auto Workers' weekly tabloid Solidarity last month was a provocative four-page insert calculated to catch the eye of each of its estimated 5,000,000 readers. Its cover page was alive with a drawing of a sheet-hooded, club-carrying Ku Klux Klanner standing menacingly next to the Statue of Liberty. Caption: WHICH Do You CHOOSE? LIBERTY or BIGOTRY. Printed inside was the full text of the rousing speech by U.A.W.-endorsed Jack Kennedy to Protestant ministers in Houston...
Obstacle? With those two basic positions stated, the rest of the debate turned on restatements of old positions. Kennedy tossed a low blow by recalling that Grand Dragon William J. Griffin of the Ku Klux Klan had indicated that he was going to vote for Nixon ("I do not suggest in any way that that indicates that Mr. Nixon has the slightest sympathy or involvement . . .") Nixon hedged on answers to questions on nuclear disarmament and control and labor policy by announcing that he would shortly deliver major speeches on these topics...
...Richard Nixon the week's least welcome endorsement came from Tampa Private Eye William J. Griffin, Grand Dragon of the Florida Knights of the Ku Klux Klan...