Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conquered the frontier. Having met few Negroes in his own travels out West, Wister could see no reason to sully the racial purity of his novel. Other writers were not so passive in their bigotry; Thomas Dixon wrote a popular novel singing the praises of the Ku Klux Klan upon which "Birth of a Nation" was based...
...office by spouting racism, Mississippi's Governor Paul Johnson is obviously trying to move the state toward greater accommodation on the civil rights front. He still defends his state's too-lenient treatment of racist killers, but he works closely with the FBI in curbing the Klan (in fact, he himself has been threatened by the Klan lately), and he has halted the use of state money to finance racist propaganda being broadcast by the declining White Citizens Council...
...Jonesboro, a small town 160 miles from Baton Rouge, where for three weeks half the 500 students in the Negro high school had been cutting classes and protesting lack of facilities. McKeithen swiftly took care of their grievances, explaining: "I didn't want another Selma." When the Klan protested his sensible action, 15 citizens burned an oil-soaked "Z" at an intersection to express their opinion of the Klan's worth-zero. The Governors' attitude is perhaps best summed up by Georgia's Carl Sanders, who says, "I'm a segregationist...
Appearing on a recent national TV program, U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach was asked if the FBI had infiltrated the K.K.K. Replied he: "Yes. At times I think we know more about what the Klan is doing than we know about what some divisions of the Justice Department are doing...
Struggle with a Pistol. The Klan car trailed Mrs. Liuzzo's for about 20 miles. Finally, as it sped past, the man sitting next to Rowe fired the shots that killed the woman...