Word: klan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Lowry, the charge stems from the fact that two Klu Klux Klan leaders, taken from their car by a group of Negroes, were forced to take refuge in Williams's house. Lowry said his only part in the incident was to move the Klansman's car to the curb...
...Klux Klan rides again" story is often run by northern newspapers, when the truth is that the KKK is dead, Nelson said. It lives on only in the mind of Northerners...
Labor leaders were impressed by Cowger's flat condemnation of right-to-work proposals. Negroes (some 15,000 of whom voted) disliked the Democratic regime's opposition to forced integration of eating places, were influenced by the rumor that the Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council were supporting the Democratic candidate, William S. Milburn...
Objections to the film have historically been based on its anti-Negro attitude. Birth of a Nation is sympathetic to the South, and glorifies the activities of the Ku Klux Klan...
...most vehement objections to the film are directed at a scene in which a Negro unsuccessfully attempts to rape a white woman. The shock of the attack drives the girl to suicide, and the Klan avenges her death...