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...From this experience in the South, I learned that the Klan is in direct contact with the police and is thereby able to keep track of all civil rights workers in the area," Blanning told the students at a meeting Friday. He added, however, that the Harvard delegation would probably be relatively safe since they would not be demonstrating...
...Shabazz [March 5], better known as Malcolm X, was fair at all. As members of the Afro-American Unity Organization, we are not taught to hate whites but to judge a man according to his prestige. We are taught not to turn the other cheek to the Ku Klux Klan but to defend ourselves in event of attacks. You mentioned all the malicious things done during the life of Brother Malcolm, but you never mentioned the things he has done for Afro-Americans, such as scholarships given to Afro-American students to attend universities in the United Arab Republic...
...doesn't matter whether he was killed by the Ku Klux Klan or the Black Muslims: retribution was exacted. As a result of the violence, the sons and daughters of the victim and murderers are being initiated into manhood too early and will quickly become heirs to the violence of Negroes and whites which racism has forced upon us and which finally brought an end to Malcolm X. By dissenting, Malcolm was trying to end the tragic cycle...
Lewis defined as "extremist groups" those which conspire to overthrow the government by force and those which serve a foreign power. He included the Communist, Socialist Labor, and Nazi parties, the Black Muslims, and the Ku Klux Klan. In answer to a question, he said that the HUAC had been investigating the Klan for 10 years at the time he left its staff...
...Congressional committees, HUAC exists to recommend and develop legislation. Yet the Committee has never formulated a major bill. Rather it has used its influence to intimidate citizens it considers undesirable. This is a needless and dangerous activity. If a group is undesirable and also commits crimes, as many Klan units do, then state and Federal prosecutors and courts should handle them. If a group is merely undesirable, the government--both legislative and executive--should leave well enough alone...