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...abortion clinics and tried to block those entering. Faced with local officials who deemed such protests legal, abortion-rights advocates turned to the federal courts. There a number of judges were willing to restrain Operation Rescue through an 1871 federal civil rights law originally designed for use against the Ku Klux Klan. Women seeking abortions, the judges ruled, deserved the same protected status as blacks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Back to The Barricades | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

...other hick on the lot" -- he went over with her to the Governor's mansion one morning for coffee and strawberries. The four didn't stop talking until many hours later. As a granddaughter of a muckraking Arkansas newspaper editor (he was shot by the Ku Klux Klan) and the daughter of a lawyer, Linda says, "you were sent to your room if you didn't have an opinion." She says she and Hillary are much alike, as they pursue their careers and work together on a foundation Linda established to send Ozark women to college. Linda talks to Hillary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Linda Bloodworth-Thomason and Harry Thomason: Just a Couple of Hicks With 40 Million Viewers | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

FIRST IT WAS UP. THEN IT WAS DOWN. THEN UP, then down. Up again, down again. Then up one last time before Cincinnati was finally rid of the specter of a cross raised by the Ku Klux Klan. The hate group's permit to display the cross finally expired a day before New Year's Eve. For nine days the cross inspired a festival of civil disobedience. Four times the Klan put it up, and three times protesters knocked it down. The list of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kross Out: the Sequel | 1/11/1993 | See Source »

JUST AS CINCINNATI THOUGHT IT MIGHT LIVE DOWN the embarrassing Marge Schott affair came yet another specter of bigotry: taking advantage of a federal court decision that forced the city to permit a huge Hanukkah menorah in a public square, the Ku Klux Klan erected a tit-for-tat wooden cross nearby. Though this particular cross was not afire, its sponsorship by the hate group inflamed local opinion. A day before its erection, hundreds gathered in a candlelit protest. Hours after the appearance of the Klan krucifix, a pair of demonstrators toppled and trampled on it -- but the Klan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kross Out! | 1/4/1993 | See Source »

Should I for the sake of promoting "freedom of political expression" be forced to rent my property to a White Knight of the Ku Klux Klan, so long as it appears that he would be a good tenant? Should Cohen be forced to hire a card-carrying member of the American Nazi Party if he is qualified...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Understanding the 'Gay Rights' Referenda | 11/25/1992 | See Source »

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