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...about ten years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across Mason and Dixon's line into Indiana, spread eastward to New England, made some progress in the Middle West and gained a few footholds in the Far West...
...motion for cloture came to a vote. Diplomats thronged the galleries; Congressmen hurried in. President Coolidge, kept closely informed of what was passing, sent over a certified copy of the protocol. The name of the Ku Klux Klan was dragged across the chamber and hung on Senator Reed, who flung it off. Hiram Johnson got the last six minutes for objecting...
Mattie Julian, Negress, of De Paul University, said: "Too many of the churches have ministers who belong to the Ku Klux Klan. . . . Church people should support the anti-lynching...
...sees and feels a new America-an America of steel and stone, of dynamos and blast furnaces. It sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches with mingled horror and admiration...
...there any other names to match them on the rolls of Prohibition? All of these save William H. Anderson spoke. He was there as a delegate and as correspondent for The Fellowship Forum, a "Protestant paper" published at Washington (and favorable to the Ku Klux Klan...