Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...runoff primary for Governor, Attorney General John Patterson, 36, piled up a record vote to defeat Circuit Judge George Wallace by 64,388 even after Patterson had been unmasked as the favorite of Ku Klux Klan leaders and had made a public appeal for the votes of Klansmen. Opponent Wallace, himself an unhooded knight of white supremacy, first attacked Patterson for his K.K.K. ties, then shut up when he saw that the charge was backfiring in Patterson's favor. More important than the Klan issue was the fact that Patterson had taken a tough stand against retiring Governor "Kissin...
...Montgomery Advertiser, tracing ties between the K.K.K. and Patterson campaigners, turned up a form letter which was a signal to Klansmen to back him for Governor. On his official Attorney General stationery, Candidate Patterson wrote to the K.K.K. hate-sheet mailing list quoting "A mutual friend, Mr. R. N. (Bob) Shelton." To anybody on the list, that was enough, for, as every Kluxer knows, Tuscaloosa Rubberworker Shelton is the Grand Dragon...
...field that night, 75 Klansmen, one robed in white sheets, some armed with shotguns, gathered round the public-address system set up by Klan leaders. Above the crowd, hung a single bare electric bulb. Off to one side assembled fascinated observers and newsmen. Across the road stood about 350 young Lumbees...
...Indians hooted a few jeers. The Klan ignored them. Then slowly the Lumbees fanned out and moved across the road. A tall Indian youth walked closer, raised his rifle, calmly drew a bead on the light bulb, and baml-out it went. Suddenly the band galloped toward the huddled Klansmen, yelling old war cries, firing into the dark night and at auto tires. Most of the Klansmen dropped their guns and made for their cars in fright. The Indians kept coming (one proudly wore a traditional feathered headdress marked SOUVENIR OF CHIMNEY ROCK, N.C.), burst upon the public-address system...
Yelling, shouting and shooting at nothing in particular, the Indians struck their cheerful terror until a plain-clothes deputy tossed a tear-gas bomb into the mob; then braves and Klansmen alike scattered. Soon state troopers sped into the field and disarmed them all. Happily the Lumbees jogged home, certain that the race-baiting bunch of newcomers to American soil would not mess around much more with Americans of a different brand...