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There is a rub however. Defining beforehand precisely who is or is not a controversial speaker is not always easy. Anti-Israel and pro-Ku Klux Klan speakers are clearly controversial. But do pro-Socialist and pro-Capitalist speakers--say, Paul Sweezey, editor of Monthly Review, and George Gilder, head of Manhattan Institute, respectively--fit the controversial label? Martin Kilson...
Opponents of the Ku Klux Klan have long tried to stop its racist activities. Last week an all-white jury in Mobile may have finally done it. In a civil suit against the United Klans of America arising from the 1981 murder of a black teenager by six U.K.A. members, the jury awarded damages of $7 million to the mother of Michael Donald, who was beaten, strangled and hung from a tree. Anti-Klan experts say the huge fine could dismantle the complex financial network of the U.K.A., the oldest, largest (2,500 members) and most secretive of the various...
...KU KLUX Klan took a knockout punch from an Alabama jury last week. An all-white Alabama jury...
Surely one of the cornerstones of democratic ideals is the right to assemble. One of the special virtues of our American society is that groups the majority does not necessarily believe in can still assemble. The Ku Klux Klan certainly discriminates against Blacks, Catholics, Jews and everyone else under the sun. But the beauty of our society rests in the ability of groups like the KKK or the American Communist to exist...
...WHEN THE KU Klux Klan and a group of rednecks disrupted a civil rights march through the all-white Georgia county, many were justifiably shocked and outraged. Coretta Scott King, for one, announced that the incident proved that racism was alive and well in the United States...