Word: klansmen
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...Cherrys, it appears, pulled up dirt with their roots. Last week it was old mud when Bobby Frank Cherry, 69, and Thomas E. Blanton Jr., 61, both former Ku Klux Klansmen, were indicted by an Alabama grand jury on murder charges stemming from the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham that killed four black girls at Sunday school. Both men maintain their innocence. The attack was one of the most horrific crimes of the civil rights era, but only one suspect in the case, Robert E. Chambliss--who was convicted of murder in 1977 and died in jail...
...Cherry has testified to an Alabama grand jury about his father but, having been warned by prosecutors, is careful not to repeat his testimony. All he says is that on the night the dynamite was planted, he was with his father at a shop where Klansmen made rebel signs. "When you're called in on a subpoena and asked what you know...I can only tell them where he was at." He is anguished over his father, but he is also haunted by the bombing. "There never was a family get-together where someone wouldn't mention it," says...
...question isn't academic. In the 1990s hate has grown up and logged on. The Ku Klux Klan doesn't use the term cross burnings anymore; it prefers "sacred cross lightings." Klansmen have waged more legal war than race war in the past few years, trying (mostly in vain) to persuade local judges to let them Adopt-a-Highway. "If somebody comes up with a bottle of Jack Daniel's in one hand and a shotgun in the other and says, 'Let's go kill 'em all,' I say, 'You're not for our group,'" says Jeff Coleman, grand wizard...
...From the offset, the Harvard Klan was a silent beast. Hooded Klansmen did not hold massive demonstrations in Tercentenary Theater; progressive leaders of the era were not hung in effigy in the Yard. Yet-at least according to a prominent Klansman who spoke to The Crimson in 1923-the Harvard Klan was far from a fringe association. The Harvard Klan, he said, is inactive. But it is very far from being disorganized, nor can I even say now its influence is unfelt...
...village officials attempted to postpone Halloween, a tradition that dates back to the Druids, because it conflicted with the town's UFO festival, which dates back to 1986. Protests ensued, and it was decided that adults dressed as Klingons could coexist with children dressed as witches (though not necessarily Klansmen dressed as Mickey...