Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...street lights for the town's Negro neighborhoods. They have also won a few promises, including a pledge to take on two Negro policemen -if they can pass an examination. But for the most part, the demands of civil rights advocates have been thwarted by the Ku Klux Klan. Although Klan rolls are secret, it has been estimated that in Bogalusa and the surrounding countryside there are probably more Klansmen per capita than anywhere else in the South...
...Louisiana, the paper-mill town of Bogalusa has been teetering for a long time on the verge of bloody race vio lence. The Ku Klux Klan is active there, while the Negroes themselves have formed a vigilante group called the Deacons for Defense and Justice...
...even if their efforts cost them dearly in money and community standing. In Birmingham, for example, Lawyer Paul Johnston last week began to pay the price of voluntarily representing FBI Informer Gary Rowe (by indirect request of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach) in a lawsuit filed by Ku Klux Klan Lawyer Matt Murphy Jr. "It's not too popular to be involved in such matters around here," said one lawyer. Johnston was voted out of his eminent law firm by his prosperous partners-including his father and brother-thereby joining a hardy band of colleagues in conscience across...
...Against Israel. Scooping all other Swedish papers as well as the police, the exposé revealed that Lundahl, who also belongs to the U.S. Ku Klux Klan, had been negotiating for some time with the United Arab Republic. He had asked for Egyptian arms, with which a prospective 1,000 Nazi followers would seize Stockholm. In return, Lundahl promised to confiscate all Jewish property in Sweden, execute important Jews, and provide the U.A.R. with 5,000 troops in a war against Israel...
...storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise the debate. Ali's cup ranneth over when two trustees of the Union resigned and a third, Sir David...