Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florida's Governor Fuller Warren reacted briskly to a 43-car parade of Ku Klux Klansmen through Tallahassee. He said he would demand a law preventing "hooded hoodlums and sheeted jerks . . . from parading in Florida...
...Houston Klan No. 1. The Klan started a campaign of vilification, denouncing him as a chronic drinker and gambler. A Baptist, Holcombe demanded that the Baptist Ministers' Association try him on the charges at a public hearing. Although nine of the 13 ministers on the "jury" were Klansmen, they cleared him after a one-day "trial" held at the Rice Hotel a week before election. He won the election. Three campaigns later, however, he was defeated. One reason: he swung an umbrella at the publisher of a Houston newspaper who had threateningly brandished a letter-opener during a heated...
...Samuel Green, Grand Dragon of the Georgia Ku Klux Klan, told the Georgia Tech Technique what nice people the Klansmen are, really: "We don't hate anybody, but most everybody hates us." For example, "It doesn't make me mad because I can't join B'nai B'rith, but it makes the Jews mad because they can't join us ... We don't hate the Jews. Some of my best friends . . . are Jews . .. And then there is the Knights of Columbus organization. They won't let me join their group either...
...face of Hummon's ominous white-supremacy shouting, Georgia's Negro voters did not exactly rush to the polls. In Melvin Thompson's home town of Valdosta, Klansmen hoisted a fiery cross after his election-eve speech. In Bulloch County, Klansmen deposited a coffin on the doorstep of one Negro. In the piney woods area of Montgomery County, a 28-year-old Negro named Isaiah Nixon asked if he could vote. He was warned not to, the sheriff said, but voted anyhow. That night two men appeared at his house, shot him dead in front...
...Near Atlanta, a group of Ku Klux Klansmen tied a young construction worker named Joseph Berry to a tree, flogged him with a leather strap until blood vessels burst...