Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...include the Rev. Martin Luther King among such "sound-thinking men." He said King was an extremist. "King and the Klan feed on each other," Flowers said. "Maybe King has accomplished something, but he's more of a deterrent...
Tensions reached a new peak last week as a result of a state court order enjoining both Negroes and countermarching Klansmen from street demonstrations. Negro pickets continued to parade for a dozen demands-notably a city council statement condemning the Klan, desegregation of public facilities such as the library and auditorium, addition of four Negroes to make a total of six on the 50-man police force-and were arrested in droves...
...they were forced to strip to their underwear and sleep without blankets, many on cold cement floors. Prisoners also protested that they were made to take laxatives but for two days were given no toilet paper. Their plaints, filtering back to Natchez, fanned Negro resentment-and by now the Klan was mobilizing its own forces. One night, enraged Negroes and snarling whites surged menacingly toward each other; only a plea by the N.A.A.C.P.'s Evers persuaded his people to disperse. In five turbulent nights a total of 537 civil rights demonstrators were arrested. Meanwhile, Negroes added several more stores...
...getting out of hand, Federal Judge Harold Cox of Jackson, acting on the N.A.A.C.P.'s appeal of the state court injunction against demonstrations, ruled that Natchez Negroes could parade against grievances if they marched two abreast on sidewalks and obeyed traffic signals; not to be outdone, the Klan won the same right in a Mississippi court. Cox also ordered all jailed demonstrators released on $200 bonds. The night of their federal-court victory, Negroes paraded 1,000-strong through Natchez in the city's biggest civil rights demonstration, chanting...
...However violent the event, the Courier reports it with a calmness and dispassion not often matched in easily aroused Northern newspapers. "We've been leaning over backwards to be fair to the people we disagree with," says Lottman. The Courier even had some kind words about Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy, killed last August in an automobile crash. Murphy, the paper noted, had often defended Negro clients and had helped a Negro lawyer to gain admittance to the Alabama...