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...weeks ago you called me a Bolshevik, which I am not. Now I notice that you call the Searchlight on Congress a Ku Klux Klan organ, which it is not. The Searchlight on Congress has nothing to do with the Klan. You have, since it appears that you are supporting the Klan Kandidate Koolidge...
When Ronald Reagan charged the N.E.A. with trying to "brainwash" American students, he was referring to two of its curriculum guides for teachers. One, dealing with the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, states: "It is important to remember that the Klan is only the tip of the iceberg, the most visible and obvious manifestation of the entrenched racism in our society." The Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, as well as the Administration and the A.F.T., have publicly challenged this blanket indictment of U.S. society...
...unique culture--not necessarily racist--for many established white Southern families. But the reaction to the Black protests by the white students has been blatantly reprehensible. Crank phone calls and death threats to Black student leaders, as well as a "Save the Flag" rally attended by robed Ku Klux Klansmen (seven pictures of which the yearbook printed) indicate the underlying prejudicial hatred still at oxford, Miss...
...nation they first overpraised, then cursed for being imperfect. Some, like Writer Gerhardt Eisler, were Communists, hypocritical in their horror at the House Un-American Activities Committee. Heilbut's defense of these emigres seems disingenuous: "If Einstein or Thomas and Klaus Mann were back and could observe the Ku Klux Klan in Connecticut or the Moral Majority in New Jersey . . . one doubts if they would feel inclined to apologize for their earlier misgivings...
...Black student recalls, protests against the Ku Klux Klan and nationwide discrimination against Blacks were regularly tied in to anger about racial incidents and insensitivity on campus Students called for recognition of the importance of Black history in the form of an Afro-American Studies Department and, after the department was formed in 1969, continued to seek increased University support for that field of study...