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...Rome, Ga., a federal jury had listened for ten days to the story of what happened one night almost a year ago in the little (pop. 200) mountain town of Hooker, just across from the Tennessee line. There was not much argument over the facts. A hooded mob of Ku Kluxers planted a flaming cross in the front yard of Mrs. Mamie Clay, broke up a neighborhood party and then hauled seven Negroes off to a nearby schoolyard. There, one by one, they were ordered to strip off their trousers, were thrown to the ground and lashed with a wide...
...maroon Chevrolet pulled up at Charlie Hurst's house in Pell City, Ala. (pop. 900) just as Charlie, a former storekeeper, was shucking off his shoes for the night. One of the visitors knocked on the door and shouted for Charlie. "It looks like the Ku Kluxers are after me," he muttered to his son. He went out to see, and his son followed with a .22 rifle in his hands. When the men tried to drag Charlie into the car, he grabbed the rifle from the son and blazed away, shattering one car window. From the car someone...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop Gushing says that those Americans who are organized to defend the Separation of Church and State, and Religious Freedom, are a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Has the archbishop forgotten what brought the Pilgrims to this country...
...folks who understand the Sermon on the Mount, believe in the Ten Commandments and practice the Golden Rule. These apartments were built with Uncle Sam's and our dough. Neither Uncle Sam nor we want tenants who are members of subversive, anti-American hate organizations like the Ku Klux Klan...
Such groups, Archbishop Gushing told the Archdiocesan Union of Holy Name Societies, were a "refined form of the Ku Klux Klan." Cautioning Catholics against being "dazzled" by slogans about separation of church and state, and similar "glittering generalities," he said: "Our people are in a very precarious position thanks to the extremely hard, though evil work, which contemporary anti-Catholics have done . . . The damage they are accomplishing in creating prejudice on the one hand and uneasiness on the other is very considerable indeed...