Word: klansmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this Saturday morning, seven Ku Klux Klansmen are sitting at a table in the Holiday Inn coffeeshop eating grits and scrambled eggs. Wives and children have been put at smaller tables. Out behind the inn, a dozen Mississippi state highway patrolmen are clustered around the trunk of a car, joking and passing out bullets like jelly beans as they draw a day's supply of ammunition. "Did you count 'em? I give you 18, didn't I?" says one. "Now, you know I can't count," comes the reply. One of them tells me they...
...United League of North Mississippi, a black civil rights group, has scheduled a protest march. Both groups are headed for the county courthouse. All week little Southern Airway's 18-seat Metros, known locally as "weed eaters," have been pumping in from Memphis and Atlanta, loaded with Klansmen and league supporters from as far away as San Francisco...
Meanwhile, down at the auto center, 50 Klansmen are suiting up, clumsily pulling robes and floppy hoods on over their street clothes. Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson, a stocky little man from Denham Springs, La., has arrived in his long gray Chrysler. He likes to tell people it once belonged to President Nixon, and he usually adds regretfully that it is not bulletproof. A shotgun leans against the front seat. Boasts Klansman Gene West of San Antonio: "We've got a whole arsenal of guns here today, all of them concealed...
...songs work better than others. Strawberry Fields Forever, a drug song, is backed by masses of huge, drowsy faces, ballooning up over the stage as they smoke pot, looking as passive as numbed denizens of an opium parlor. Revolution, in which the Beatles dissociate themselves from violence, shows hooded Klansmen burning a cross, and a monk in self-immolation to protest the Viet Nam War, serenely praying as delicate traceries of flame sweep over him. The words of a famous Lennon love song about the need to make up after a spat: "Try to see it my way, only time...
...based on the crudest sort of racial hatred and Hall himself was for his day an extreme integrationist. He read other things into the Klan, though, none of them things the Klan particularly had--rebellion, pride, struggle against oppression. In a poem in Rebellion, he wrote of the Klansmen...