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...This is Title 18, Section 51 of the U. S. Code, directed against persons who "conspire to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution. . . ." Passed in 1870 as a weapon against the KuKluxKlan, Section 51 has since been used occasionally in cases involving intimidation of witnesses or voters, such as last year's Kansas City vote-fraud cases (TIME, April 11, 1938). Last week it was used successfully for the first time in its 69 years of existence to protect the freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: In Mobile | 5/22/1939 | See Source »

...whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew, anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Brave & Bankrupt | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

There is a courageous paper in the South. It is the Enquirer-Sun of Columbus, Ga. In spite of K. K. K.'s to right and left, in front and rear, it says: " The whole Kukluxklan Kamelia Komedy is so foolish that one no longer wishes to protest against it because it is anti-Negro, anti-Jew and anti-Catholic, but rather because it makes the people of all the South appear idiotic when they continue to accept seriously Klonvocations and Klonciliums, and tolerate the fantastic ravings of men who are fattening on the money of deluded simpletons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Bravo! | 4/28/1923 | See Source »

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