| 单词 | Klan |
| 例句 | And the few anti-hate groups that existed at the time had little leverage or even information about the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One neighbor recently had been hauled out of his house in the middle of the night by the Ku Klux Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z And, if no one could stop the Klan from hanging Mr. Harvey, then even the church could do nothing to stop the Klan from hanging me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The two previous chapters were built around a pair of admittedly freakish questions: What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? and How is the Ku Klux Klan like a group of real-estate agents? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Maybe, thought C.P., it was time for the Klan to quit worrying so much about secrecy and more about effectively communicating its views. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he was able to compile a mailing list of thousands of rank-and-file Klansmen and other supporters who would eventually become his political base. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Before long, John Brown was invited to join the Klavaliers, the Klan’s secret police and “flog squad.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z One of the girls, Cindy Thompson, made a special effort to befriend me, but it turned out that what she really wanted was to recruit me for the junior Ku Klux Klan. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Ophie had heard stories of the Ku Klux Klan, men who came in the night and hurt people who forgot their place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z But now the Klan provided no answers for the questions that stormed out of the darkness, like soldiers into battle, threatening to overwhelm him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After burning a cross on the courthouse lawn, a group of enraged white men who were members of the Ku Klux Klan went out searching for someone to victimize. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z While the charrette was being formed, C.P. kept his Klan unit up to date with reports at the weekly Klavern meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Nothing unnerved rural black settlements more than rumors about nearby Klan activity. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When returning black soldiers demanded equal rights following World War II, the Klan’s popularity once again increased. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As institutions go, the Ku Klux Klan has had a markedly up- and-down history. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Their children quit school at sixteen and go into the army, the jails, the state hospitals; when troubled times come, they join the Klan and do the rabble-rousing for the middle class. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Something had happened to me during that encounter with the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Kennedy was therefore eager to damage the Klan in any way he could. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z K. P. Lewis, manager of the sprawling Erwin Mills in Durham, explained his decision not to join the Klan by observing that “matters could be very much better handled...open and above-board.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As I climbed into bed, they told me if someone from the Klan knocked on the door, I should not come out. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “The writers were against the Klan, all right, but they had precious few inside facts about it.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The fear created by commercial experts may not quite rival the fear created by terrorists like the Ku Klux Klan, but the principle is the same. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Vigilante groups like the Silver Shirts and Ku Klux Klan were openly anti-Jewish and actively recruiting. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Klan viewpoint could always find a hearing in the highest reaches of Durham’s civic life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z That was the end of the girls’ division of the Klan Youth Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He would spend years interviewing Klan leaders and sympathizers, sometimes taking advantage of his own background and lineage to pretend that he was on their side of the issues. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z C.P. had believed leading the Klan into the public sphere was the right move, but he was unprepared for the huge success of that effort. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Americans who might have been philosophically inclined to oppose the Klan had now been given enough specific information to oppose them more actively, and public sentiment began to shift. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A report issued by the Anti-Defamation League concurred with this assessment, naming the North Carolina branch of the United Klans of America “the best run state organization.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Grandma had explained to me that the Klan was a bunch of white men. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Although Corps members rarely participated in Klan demonstrations, Butler and some others once joined a delegation of local Klansmen on a trip to Richmond, Virginia, to protest school busing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I guess the Klan wanted to teach the Crowells a lesson about mixing and socializing with whites. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The onset of World War II and a number of internal scandals once again laid the Klan low. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I shivered when I envisioned the hate-filled Klan on the loose, posing a real threat against the nation’s homes, churches, and neighborhoods. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It seems reasonable to assume that some of their members are Klan sympathizers, at the very least.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z After dark set in, the Klan was out riding. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They got women in the Klan down in Arkansas?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I listened in as they discussed their thoughts and tried to figure out what life-threatening activities the Ku Klux Klan might have planned for that night or the next in our neighborhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Not just the Ku Klux Klan but the regular white folks in town would’ve killed him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these troubles, the Klan never completely disappeared, or at least not for long, from 1915 on. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z C. P. Ellis’ ascent to power in the Ku Klux Klan paralleled Ann Atwater’s own steady climb through the ranks of community activists. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z C.P. joined every Klan committee he could, and quickly earned a reputation as a tireless worker. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Only the Klan looks out for the white man,” Paul Ellis told his son, with the profound solemnity of inebriation. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The speeches fired up the Klansmen, but as a secret society standing outside of the mainstream, with no well-thought-out plan of action, the Klan had little influence in Durham’s affairs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I decided to keep my misadventure secret, that I would tell no one that I had been unwittingly an agent for pro-Ku Klux Klan literature. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked diligently and with growing excitement to design an exhibit that would show exactly what the Klan was about. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As far as she was concerned, the charrette was no different from any other of C.P.’s Klan projects—except that it claimed even more of his time. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan reasserted itself as a powerful terrorist organization, committing castrations, killings, and the bombing of black homes and churches. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Some scholars and commentators have pointed out that the racial violence once associated with brutal slave masters or the Ku Klux Klan has been replaced, to some extent, by violence perpetrated by the state. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He called his vice president in the Klan and told him to come by and pick up the keys to the Klavern. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If the night of his initiation into the Klan was a homecoming, his acceptance into Durham’s civic life was the discovery of a previously unknown extended family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They kept out of sight and low key, very low key when the Klan showed up. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z City officials boasted there hadn’t been a Klan hanging of one of our people in at least ten years. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I knew for certain that even the church could not stop the Klan from hurting us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z It would have been easy for the Klan to come up the hill in the night. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan man hates the black man’s guts. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The Corps participated in several cross burnings with the adult Klan members, always in the context of a rally. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If the Klan itself was defeated, however, its aims had largely been achieved through the establishment of Jim Crow laws. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan—much like politicians or real-estate agents or stockbrokers—was a group whose power was derived in large part from the fact that it hoarded information. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z It had to be a huge meeting or a celebration; there were a lot of people there, and they were all wearing the Klan’s sheets and masks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Following a long Klan tradition of secrecy, the building was officially the headquarters of an organization called the Town and Country Sportsman’s Club. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Internal power struggles also mortally wounded the North Carolina Klan, which shattered into several warring factions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1977, the former Klan leader was elected business manager by a four-to-one margin despite the fact that his opponent, the incumbent, was black, as were 80 percent of the union members. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Their campaign to “redeem” the South was reinforced by a resurgent Ku Klux Klan, which fought a terrorist campaign against Reconstruction governments and local leaders, complete with bombings, lynchings, and mob violence. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z The Klan, with its promise to hold back change, naturally appealed to a young boy such as Butler. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Most likely, the “incident” was a lynching or the Klan torching a house or neighborhood. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Stay where crowds of our folks are, especially on Friday or Saturday evenings when the Klan searches for our folks.” March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z What’s more, racists had an alternative to the Klan in the white Citizens’ Councils that had spread throughout the South following the Supreme Court's Brown v. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well, the paper you’re selling preaches the Ku Klux Klan doctrines,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We worried that the Klan might have planted a second, deadlier bomb to explode after a crowd had gathered. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It’s unlikely that C.P. would have been drawn to the racial mythologies of the Klan if “respectable” society hadn’t mirrored many of these same beliefs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She and C. P. Ellis, leader of the Durham chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, had been nominated to co-chair the school charrette program at a meeting of the steering committee that night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan and the White Citizens Council would block the route and prevent the trucks with the food from getting through to the campsite. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, he was on intimate terms with the Klan’s state leader, Bob Jones, and Jones’ wife, Sylvia, head of the women's auxiliary. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Klan activity in North Carolina rose and fell over the years in direct proportion to black agitation for change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He felt so confident that he even wrote a letter, on Klan letterhead, introducing himself to the North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation and inviting them to attend a Klavern meeting. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “No, but I want to set up a display of Klan material in a classroom,” he told her, coming up with the idea on the spot. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Battling those forces today, as yesterday, was the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They were afraid to go into the restroom, assuming the Klan had prepared a second charge of dynamite and more deadly bombs would follow the first explosion after a crowd had formed. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Lloyd Jacobs, the president of a splinter Klan organization, in front of Durham’s City Hall at a march for open housing, 1967. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be nice, he thought, to get the Klan’s passwords and the rest of its secrets into the hands of kids all across the country—and their parents too? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Plans for a Klan junior auxiliary for girls ran aground after one of these trips, when the older Klan women heard about an impromptu swimming break that involved teenage girls. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z African- Americans could now register to vote without undergoing ridiculous qualification games, taking difficult exams, experiencing Klan intimidation, and paying “blacks only” poll taxes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I guess he and the other Klan members planted the church bomb to explode on that Sunday as a threat to stop us from integrating the public all-white schools in Birmingham.” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Papa said members from the Black Legion—a Ku Klux Klan splinter group—came in the night, stood right outside our windows, and set the place on hre. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z I was both afraid of the Klan and fascinated by them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When he mentioned his concerns to another Klan officer, all he got was a blank stare. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Dr. King made it clear that any protester confronted with violence by police or the Klan was to respond with nonviolence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, but he might be head of the Ku Klux Klan. Why would he help us?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I knew how violent Klan members could be. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You’re just picking on the black man, aren’t you? Well, have a good time at your Klan meeting tonight,” he spat out. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Klan was so entrenched and broad- based that Kennedy felt as if he were tossing pebbles at a giant. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At the last minute, he had hedged, introducing himself as C. V. Anderson, vice president of the local Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z On the day that the display opened, C.P. and Butler sat defiantly at a table behind neat stacks of Klan literature while people walked around the room examining the exhibits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z By the 1920s, a revived Klan claimed eight million members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But within barely a decade, the Klan had been extinguished, largely by legal and military interventions out of Washington, D.C. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He did not discuss the new direction in which he wanted to take the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t stop where there was a fancy-looking house, an ordinary family, because it might be a Klan home. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Without Roosevelt, Elizebeth was afraid that America would be vulnerable to “evil influences like...the Klan” and homegrown fascism. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z C.P. had begun his campaign to take the Klan out of the Klavern hall and into the public arena. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But no, there was no mistaking Becton's sincerity—or his sanity or intelligence—even if his desire to meet formally with the gun-toting leader of the Durham Klan struck C.P. as foolhardy. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Stella’s first thought was to wonder if they knew any of the Klan members. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z You see a Ku Klux Klan man and a black man. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you ever hear of the Ku Klux Klan?” he asked me softly. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I was thinking, Why isn’t somebody preparing to fight back if it is the Klan? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Deep down I was afraid for my safety—terrified of getting my head blown off, like Cynthia had, in a Klan explosion. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This didn't stop the Klan from continuing to ride on weekends and white people from treating us as though they hated us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The wheels of social change were turning—slowly, but they were turning—and nothing he or the Klan could do would turn them back. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z C.P. understood the strategic value of cultivating new blood for the organization, but even more, he identified with the hunger many working-class white children felt for an organization such as the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After celebrating his courtroom victory, C.P. went back to serving the Klan, leading the weekly meetings, organizing the Youth Corps, and meeting clandestinely with city officials. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, and some trouble they got into with the Klan with some poison ivy and such. Ned and Jinx. Did you know them?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Reverend Leon L. Myers — pastor of the Anaheim Christian Church and founder of the local Men’s Bible Club — turned the Ku Klux Klan into one of the most powerful organizations in town. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z As recently as the 1970s, Shadbush County was home to an active chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Good grief, baby, people don’t agree with the Klan, but they certainly don’t try to prevent them from puttin’ on sheets and making fools of themselves in public.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Not if the Klan has anything to do with it,” Stella replied, twirling the new bracelet on her wrist. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “So, I hear tell y’all got some Klan worries here in Bumblebee.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I had heard tell that the sheriff ran with t he Klan at night when they would come through the colored section or out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He, however, sent out feelers to individuals who he thought might be sympathetic to the Klan viewpoint, people in positions to help the cause: policemen, firemen, low-ranking city officials. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan burned down homes and businesses belonging to its political rivals, and frightened many others into leaving the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan was growing and running strong then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Ku Klux Klan for attempting to vote. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I didn’t know the Ku Klux Klan from Cracker Jacks, but our black customers slipped out and dashed into their homes as soon as they caught sight of them. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In the car with the Klan leader were two members of the Youth Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Before the Klan, he had often lain in bed like this, wondering why he couldn’t seem to get anywhere in the world. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As wartime anxiety gave way to postwar uncertainty, Klan membership flourished. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That was the Ku Klux Klan riding through. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z This was before his father’s murder by the Klan, his mother’s emotional breakdown, and the subsequent scattering of his siblings and himself into an inadequate and inattentive foster care system. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of futilely attacking the Klan from the outside, what if he could somehow unleash all the secret inside information that John Brown was gathering from the Klan’s weekly meetings? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z C.P. didn’t add that the Klan SOS program was designed to frustrate desegregation, not implement it, but he didn’t have to. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Throughout much of the interview, C.P. repeated the usual Klan propaganda. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Griffith presented the Klan as crusaders for white civilization itself, and as one of the noblest forces in American history. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The sound was muffled, not loud and earth shattering like the bombs I had heard so many times when Klan members dynamited black homes and businesses throughout the city. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I didn't talk to anyone about this because Grandma told me that if I said anything to anyone about seeing Officer Nichols there with the Klan, they would come get us and hang us, too. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Who among our men would come into that Klan crowd to rescue us? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Some people would end up paying a dear price for their courageous stands against Governor Wallace and the Ku Klux Klan before the dust finally settled. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He turned the Klan’s secrecy against itself by making its private information public; he converted heretofore precious knowledge into ammunition for mockery. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Klan was all-powerful because many of them were rich businessmen, lawmen, politicians, or even city officials by day, though they were dedicated to getting rid of us by night. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Mary wasn’t enthusiastic about the Klan, but that didn’t dismay him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan responded with random bombings for almost two decades. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He understood then that no one was going to follow him in his work of re-creating the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z So it may be that by the mid-1940s, when Stetson Kennedy was trying to bust up the Klan, it didn’t really need to use as much violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z More serious infractions, or a blatant disregard of Klan warnings, resulted in beatings, whippings, and, occasionally, lynchings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some white people—primarily members of the Ku Klux Klan—responded with violence. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She had never approved of his work with the Klan, not because of any moral problems with the organization, but simply because it took time that she felt C.P. should have spent with his family. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan's growth caused South Dakota governor Ben Olcott to complain in 1922 that “we woke up one morning and found that the Klan had about gained political control of the state.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Yes, that was what the Klan had provided him: a place to stand and feel he had a right to be there, a right to exist. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Over in Indiana, the young Klan leader D. C. “Steve” Stephenson was the government, ruling the Hoosier State from his plush offices in Indianapolis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The contrast couldn’t have been more striking if C.P. had been wearing his Klan robes and Ann been caught as she was about to heave a Molotov cocktail. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As Evers pulled into the driveway of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, white supremacist and Klan member Byron De La Beckwith was hiding, waiting for Evers to step out of his car. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacy groups did not shrink from violence. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the Klan would never quite die, especially down south—David Duke, a smooth-talking Klan leader from Louisiana, mounted substantive bids for the U.S. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “I have nothing to hide,” C.P. declared to the state agency responsible for investigating the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan was a group of people responsible for much of my evening dread. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Those who flouted the rules or resisted them risked the terror of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I thought he did that to be the man of the house and stand up to the Klan—but my uncle opened the door wide and shook the sheriff’s hand. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He passed along Klan information to the assistant attorney general of Georgia, an established Klan buster. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Most of the money for the building was raised by the working-class Klan membership, but even more importantly, a significant amount of the funds arrived as secret donations from middle- and upper-class supporters. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For the Citizens' Councils, as for the Klan, the sexual perils of desegregation were intertwined with the equally dreadful menace of Communist domination. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Imagine, he told her, a Klan meeting hall somewhere within walking distance of the gas station and he had never known it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I always suspected that Daddy, as an “invisible” waiter, learned more at the Birmingham Country Club about Klan activities than he ever wanted to know. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z That same world had always ridiculed their kind—in or out of Klan robes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Scores of Klansmen were sent to jail for their night-riding activities, but even then the Klan refused to die. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan Unmasked, Kennedy’s memoir of his exploits “inside” the Klan, is in fact more of a novelization than a straight nonfiction account. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan planned a rally and a march down River Street. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It felt to me as though the Klan could come by day, and they would check each house for secrets or for behavior that might offend them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Posters announcing Klan rallies, bearing the slogan “Be a Man, Join the Klan,” became a common sight in store windows and on telephone poles in small towns and major cities across the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then Grandma said, “Perhaps he’s trying to set you up for the Klan—he’s gonna lure you into a trap, and then where will you be?” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t naive enough to think Klan violence was merely a thing of the past. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z As a community, we placed our trust in their ability to somehow keep Klan bombs from killing our loved ones and destroying our homes and churches. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Me and Jojo saw the Klan tonight. Burning a cross,” she added quietly. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z At the next Klan meeting, there was more talk about shooting Howard Fuller. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “But he never really gave any answers about what to do about the Klan.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He did not add that he was already on his way out of the Klan, ostracized by the very people he had been trying to help. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the musicians wound up their number, a small man in a suit stepped up to the microphone and welcomed everyone to the meeting of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the United Klans of America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z White workers understood the lure of the Klan and a majority of black workers, believing in redemption, accepted C.P.’s change. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Which was fine with C. P. Ellis and his compatriots in Unit Nine of the United Klans of America. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z What drove Kennedy was a hatred of small-mindedness, ignorance, obstructionism, and intimidation—which, in his view, were displayed by no organization more proudly than the Ku Klux Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But the leaders of this political Klan defended their tactics by claiming that tough “law-and-order” measures would end social turmoil. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He had to resign his position with the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, technology startups, software companies, media conglomerates, and so forth are reluctant to set up shop in a town named for Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and founder of the Ku Klux Klan. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z They lived in a beautiful brick house in Smithfield, an area of Birmingham better known as “Dynamite Hill” because of the routine Klan bombings there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This second incarnation of the Klan found a large following north of the Mason-Dixon line. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z He felt that he had to do something to regain his credibility with the Klan, with poor whites in general, and, most of all, with himself. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “But your dad’s not in the Klan, right?” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “All the Charleses on the white side are Klan. Then there’s my Henry’s people.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z When Butler saw a handbill advertising the Klan Youth Corps, he immediately joined up. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They thought the Klan would continue to search for me for a while. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You think any of the papers will write about the Klan rally last night?” she asked. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z C.P. attended the open-air rally and was delighted to hear the governor strike the same themes that were discussed at Klan meetings. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Mama, what if...well...what if the Klan decides to burn down our house? Or...do something worse?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z They explained that they had to be careful about appearing to be too close to the Klan; blacks and liberals could make things very uncomfortable for them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Citizens’ Councils did not completely replace the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan was thought to hold great sway with key Georgia politicians, and its Georgia chapters were said to include many policemen and sheriff’s deputies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z With him cast as a Klans- man firing a young crusader, Mrs. Levy could really write a flaming broadside. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan cloaked themselves in the symbols of the Confederate South to intimidate and victimize thousands of black people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z White women didn’t wear Klan robes or aggressively protest integration like their husbands, fathers, brothers, and sons did. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z So then I checked on this pamphlet he had given me and discovered that it was printed by the Klan. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides their well-known rallies where they burned crosses and preached race hatred, the Klan hosted regular dances, shooting matches, barbecues, bingo nights, and fishing trips. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Brown divulged what he was learning at the weekly Klan meetings: the identities of the Klan’s local and regional leaders; their upcoming plans; the Klan’s current rituals, passwords, and language. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The day before the charrette opened, the Carolina Times ran an interview unprecedented for a black newspaper: a frank discussion with the head of the local Ku Klux Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Butler also liked the new public path that C.P. was blazing for the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z They also keep a close eye on possible economic reprisals from the Councils and the Klans, plus other superpatriotic groups who bring pressures to bear on the newspapers’ advertisers. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And now the same white leaders of Durham who attacked Fuller embraced the head of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “It was the Klan. They torched the Spencer house!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I think the Ku Klux Klan chose the dragon as their symbol because it is scary. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But he had no way of getting in touch with the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z A flicker of fear raced through her as she thought back to the night the Klan had burned the cross. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Growing up in rural North Carolina, she had always thought of the Klan as a powerful, terrifying force. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, its members took pride in publicly disparaging anybody who wasn’t a conservative white Christian. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He spent hours in the back room of his house drinking whiskey and calling former friends in the Klan, trying to explain his actions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Klan violence and intimidation quickly became routine in North Carolina as elsewhere. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Me and the men—we got a list of those we suspect are Klan—Packard’s name is on top.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But if the Ku Klux Klan of the 1940s wasn’t uniformly violent, what was it? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There was a branch of a competing Klan group, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, led by a former member of the UKA Klavern, a saturnine housepainter named Lloyd Jacobs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In the 1980s, in an attempt to divide workers by race, professional union busters raised the issue of C.P. ’s Klan past. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “We ain’t all Klan,” he was saying to Dr. Hawkins, who rushed over to help him heave the barrel up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Joseph Butler, a pseudonym, was typical of the young men attracted to the Klan Youth Corps. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan would ride right up Main Street in broad daylight and no one did a thing about it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To keep blacks “in their place,” Klan tactics ranged from stealing black farmers’ horses, to threats of violence, to floggings, to outright murder. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Half of them were probably the Klan anyway, so it was all the same. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z What would we do if the Klan came to call us out? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z All of a sudden, Ku Klux Klan members were everywhere. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “Didn’t you tell me you wrote about the Klan?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z I lived in a climate of relative security—if you don’t consider the Klan’s random bombings in my area—until more visible signs of unrest and change came to Birmingham in the early sixties. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z "It's enough to make a man join the Klan," Bill said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z We, the Klan, were following God’s laws, he said. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I’d sit up half the night expecting the Klan to come riding past the store in those tin lizzie Model A cars and what would I do if they did? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Leading the young Klan members, C.P. walked up to the man and pulled out the .38 caliber revolver he kept in his back pocket. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Jinx hadn’t seen him since the night of the Klan rally and felt himself draw back a bit at the sight of the grand knight. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The Klan portrayed itself as the patriotic defender of law and morality in turbulent times, but the group actually caused much of the lawlessness and terror that gripped the region during those postbellum years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And even if he could somehow damage the Klan in Atlanta, the hundreds of other chapters around the country would go untouched. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z More hours were spent discussing news items gleaned from Jesse Helms’s editorials and from various Klan publications. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He also attended public Klan events and, as he would later write, he even set about to infiltrate the Klan in Atlanta. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z To achieve those goals, Klan leaders, who were all from the higher social classes, needed the support of lower-class whites. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Once again I was surrounded by a whole room of adults who were silent and shaken by the possible arrival of the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Birmingham residents had once believed Klan bombs were meant only to intimidate people, not kill people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z And what, he wondered, had the Klan actually accomplished for white working people with the endless meetings and bitter fights against desegregation? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Finally, after surveying C.P. with a steely eye, one of the men said, “We’re members of the Klan. We meet nearby.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Butler called nearby Klan units for photographs and other materials related to Klan life. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Proud? People have lost their lives because of the Klan!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The cooperation convinced C.P. that he was leading the Klan in the right direction. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When he heard about Klan plans for a union-busting rally, he fed the information to a union friend. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z At its peak, the Tarheel Klan boasted 25,000 members and many more sympathizers. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z While the TV commentator may have sounded like the voice of the Klan to C.P., in reality he spoke for the white men of wealth, power, and prestige who governed the state. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As with the adult Durham Klan unit, however, most of the Youth Corps’s work was focused on perceived local problems, and, given the tender age of Corps members, that meant problems in the schools. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z As head of the local Klan, C.P. worked with many of the leading racists in the region. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there were a few rallies around the state to socialize with other Klan units. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan youth, who had worshiped C.P. and was attending the charrette meetings at his leader’s request, now seemed hesitant to talk with him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some of them might be hurt in the scuffle with the Klan, but not all of them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The threat of violence didn’t just come from law enforcement officers, marchers were told; waiting for them downtown were members of the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I suspect he occasionally heard conversations from Klan club members that caused his heart to miss a beat. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan’s coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have the Klan and the white man always on our backs,” she said. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He gave us no reason, but he no doubt knew that Klan members such as Robert Chambliss and Bob Cherry lived in that part of town. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Americans who might have been philosophically inclined to embrace the Klan had now been given all sorts of caution against doing so. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Klan leader was never diplomatic when speaking about blacks, but on this night, perhaps fired up by the recent events, C.P. was particularly mean-spirited. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z If the Exalted Cyclops of the local Klan did not deem the issue important enough to continue fighting over, why should they? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z To be sure, there are differences between exposing the Ku Klux Klan and exposing insurance companies’ high premiums. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z With experience organizing Klan units in several Southern states, Stoner was as violent as Shelton, and would later be convicted in the 1958 dynamiting of a Birmingham, Alabama, church. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The roads were safe in daylight, but the Klan were out riding strong after dark set in. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z All those stories from the seventies—burning crosses, Ku Klux Klan. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z It would be the biggest in Klan history, he said, and he expected 10,000 Klansmen to be there—in their robes. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z In many sections of North Carolina, any violation of the color line was an invitation for the Klan to pay a visit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The North Carolina Klan might have attracted even more members in the pre-civil rights era if racists hadn’t acquired increased sophistication over the years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t the Klan, she kept repeating to herself. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Why the heck not? And by the way, did you know the head of the Klan is called a Grand Dragon?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was Klan custom, for instance, to append a Kl to many words. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What particularly galled the Klan was that the union could have been prevented. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha, Nebraska, one night. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Overnight we’d gone from our first African-American president to a presidential nominee who was openly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan and the leader of the American Nazi Party. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I knew that my people would never be out there after dark that late at night, so the noises had to be members of the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Well, let them know. Let white people know. Like the Mafia or the Klan; frighten them into behaving.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z —The Marshall Morning News, January 25, 1923 I had never really talked to any other white folks about such things as the Klan and so I watched to gauge Richard’s reaction. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Brown was a union worker and a former Klan official who had changed his ways and offered to infiltrate the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Within a short time, C.P. had built up a small network of friends within the city government who would keep him posted on developments of interest to the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The audience seated in the chamber was a conglomeration of Durham’s various racial factions; there were contingents from UOCI, the BSC, the Klan, and the White Citizens’ Council. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Clement was dressed in a dashiki—an African shirt that was to the Klan leader what a red flag is to a bull. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Then there were rackets like the Klan’s Death Benefit Association, which sold insurance policies to Klan members and accepted only cash or personal checks made out to the Grand Dragon himself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Klan bombed the Shoreses’ brick ranch house on two different occasions. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In his outstretched hands, he held the white robes and conical hat of the Ku Klux Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Of course, the Klan opposed any changes in the status quo, but the Durham unit engaged in no actions in this period. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “You mean have the Klan come over to this house?” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The Klan trafficked in secret information whose secrecy engendered fear, while insurance prices were less a secret than a set of facts dispensed in a way that made comparisons difficult. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Kennedy saw the Klan as the terrorist arm of the white establishment itself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Carvie Oldham, head of the Durham Housing Authority, was also a frequent caller, notifying the Klan leader whenever a particularly contentious meeting was scheduled so that the Klansman could attend and back up Oldham’s position. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He joined the Klan soon after buying the business. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It gripped him: that cross was not the cross of Christ, but the cross of the Ku Klux Klan. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z But soon the Klan evolved into a multistate terrorist organization designed to frighten and kill emancipated slaves. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z That frightened me because I knew if he used the gun to shoot that white man, the Klan and the police would come. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Klan didn’t exist in a vacuum, and, in fact, it couldn’t have. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After revealing the many death threats, he explained that as the leader of the Klan he had for years tried to help white parents and students with school-related problems. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z C.P. considered Howard Clement one of his few close friends after leaving the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan still killed our people that way, without fear of being arrested or tried. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ridiculed by the same society that grew wealthy on the labor of his kind, C.P. had at last found a measure of self-respect and meaning in the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t uncomfortable yesterday, even though I understood how awful the Klan was. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z Kennedy also found the Klan to be a slick money-making operation, at least for those near the top of the organization. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z She'd dared ask him if he was in the Ku Klux Klan. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “The Klan. Some white folks thought Earl was stepping out of place.” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was a member of the Klan—maybe they were waiting with him for me to bring this car back, and they were going to grab me. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bear in mind that these figures represent not only lynchings attributed to the Ku Klux Klan but the total number of reported lynchings. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z White racists-—whether or not they belonged to the Ku Klux Klan—-had through their actions and their rhetoric developed a strong incentive scheme that was terribly clear and terribly frightening. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There were similar assaults over the years during which he headed the Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Public sentiment turned against the Klan as the unity of a country at war trumped its message of separatism. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Great Migration, in which Black folks took any opportunity to flee old Jim Crow and the terror of the Klan, meant that more colored folks were pouring in to the city every day. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “With Klan folks burning crosses in the middle of the night, we don’t need frights over cows, Jojo, you hear?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The politics of respectability made sense to many black reformers during the Jim Crow era, since African Americans had no vote, could not change policy, and lived under the constant threat of the Klan. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Papa Will was called on by people targeted by the Klan, destined to be hanged. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Klan leader genuinely liked young people and had a knack for communicating with them that was rare for men his age. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Barely two months after V-J Day, the Klan in Atlanta burned a 300-foot cross on the face of Stone Mountain, site of a storied rock carving of Robert E. Lee. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Catching the Klan is kinda like nailing jelly to a tree,” he explained. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Locals all knew what these clubs were: units of the Ku Klux Klan. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In 1958, with the backing of the Ku Klux Klan, he defeated George Wallace for governor. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Not once did the Klan visit the small farm where we lived. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Consider lynching, the Klan’s hallmark sign of violence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The same skills he had once used to further the ends of the Ku Klux Klan he now employed in the service of working-class people of all races. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z C.P. was also kept busy—in his case, with Klan activity. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z And, even though the Klan may not have been as deadly as generally thought, it was plenty violent and, perhaps worse, had ever greater designs on political influence. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Klan had answered those questions for him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The Klan was in cahoots with political, business, and law-enforcement leaders. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z But I also knew that this was what we feared each and every night: the ride of the Klan. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The Klan had neither the economic clout nor the political savvy to manipulate social institutions, and so it depended on overt violence of the most basic type: the fist, the rope, or the gun. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Some men and women were dressed in the traditional white Klan robes like the ones C.P.’s father had kept in the attic. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But as it happened, a central tenet of life in the Klan—and of terrorism in general—is that most of the threatened violence never goes beyond the threat stage. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He added that the Klavalier Klub—the Klan’s whipping and flogging department—was now on the job and had plenty of friends on the Atlanta police force. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The Klan was a perfect target, and Superman turned his powers against them. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Last time the Klan was active,” Mama noted, “was when Billy Odom had what they called the ‘accident.’” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Pastor Patton continued, “All of us have heard about the recent possible threats from the Klan. Are you afraid?” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was unlikely the Klan would come riding down on us. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Apparently, the Klan was better at organizing rallies than at keeping records. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For the first time since joining the Klan, he was beset by unanswerable questions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Now, in addition to worrying about the Ku Klux Klan coming to get us in the night, I started to worry every moment about being bombed. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Joseph Butler, the Klan Youth Corps member, attended the steering committee meeting and objected to holding the charrette at Harris. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Atlanta—the Imperial City of the KKK’s Invisible Empire, in Klan jargon—was also home to Stetson Kennedy, a thirty- year-old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z It took C.P. a minute to understand that another Klan youth had been robbed of his bus money by a group of blacks outside a Sears store. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The public was frightened and felt powerless to act against the Klan. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I remember my home on Cross Street as my only place of safety and love—even in times when the Klan rode in our neighborhood. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The head of the local Klan was obviously a more complex character than many had imagined. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She did not know, but would not have been surprised to learn, that the angry white man was the leader of the local Ku Klux Klan: C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Encounters with the Ku Klux Klan, J. Edgar Hoover and more become pivotal moments. ‘A Fuller Life’: a riveting portrait of filmmaker Samuel Fuller 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Historian Elaine Parsons notes that early Klan costumes were composed of animal skins, horns, conical hats and gowns featuring a range of colors and patterns. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Among the close to twenty contenders in the main competition is Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”, about an African-American police officer who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan. Spike Lee and Godard go to Cannes, but Netflix cans Orson Welles 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Before the site’s unveiling as a public park, the Ku Klux Klan was allowed to burn a large cross atop the obelisk. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z You score one point for showing curiosity about the Ku Klux Klan or National Socialist Movement. ‘A threat to health is being weaponised’: inside the fight against online hate crime 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z Post-civil rights era, though, the enfeebled Klan moved into the realms of ridicule. From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Small wonder the Ku Klux Klan used The Birth of a Nation as a recruitment tool right up until the 1970s. The Birth of a Nation: a gripping masterpiece … and a stain on history 2013-07-29T14:31:08Z We were watching the news, and one story featured an upcoming Ku Klux Klan rally in some part of Indiana. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z There are other kinds of speeches in “BlacKkKlansman,” too—including white-supremacist ones that are heard on the radio throughout and provide a constant background to the hateful spew that Klan members unleash in private. “BlacKkKlansman,” Reviewed: Spike Lee’s Vision of Resistance to White Supremacy 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Squirming at its clichés this season, I actually found myself impatient for the nutty episode that introduces the Ku Klux Klan into showbiz dancing, but this piece renders even the Klan tedious. Dance Review: Paul Taylor Dance Company at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-22T21:52:10Z Thomas was arrested, carted off to jail, and then taken to a Ku Klux Klan meeting. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z Even by the standards of today’s political culture, it was a startling image: the talking trains from the children’s television show “Thomas & Friends,” wearing Ku Klux Klan hoods. N.R.A. Show Puts Thomas the Tank Engine in White Hood to Criticize Diversity Move 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z This freewheeling account of an African-American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1970s is problematic as narrative drama, but stunning as provocation. ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Review: Running on Fury 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The heroes of the film are the Ku Klux Klan who ride in at the appropriate climactic moment to save the day. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z But the Ku Klux Klan was nearby — just four blocks away “on Main and Easton,” a resident recalls. Review: The Tulsa Massacre, Remembered by Those Who Survived 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z I also have a soft spot for "KKK Comeuppance," a tale clearly inspired by Klan wizard David Duke's nearly-successful campaign for governor of Louisiana in 1991. 5 excellent political horror films to watch this Halloween 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z The white men were roused by an instinct of mere self-preservation, until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South to protect the Southern country.” Madea Meets the Ku Klux Klan 2011-11-17T15:13:07Z Yes, Will’s climactic act of heroic vigilantism involves him burning down a Harlem warehouse where the Klan is manufacturing mesmerizing films meant to incite black people to mass violence. HBO's "Watchmen" trolls history and heroic whiteness in the most extraordinary episode yet 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z But even the Anonymous hackers agree that today’s Klan is something of a historical relic, like Civil War nostalgia on the dark side. Slavery, the Nazis and the KKK: We can’t face the past, and it’s poisoning our future 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z The 1930 work, which Guston drew when he was 17 years old, depicts a lynching — or what Mr. Hancock calls in his essay the “aftermath of a successful Klan business meeting.” Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z “When someone asks you, ‘Will you disavow the Ku Klux Klan,” just say yes and start high-fiving your future cabinet.” Stephen Colbert isn’t laughing at Trump anymore: “This is the easiest question to answer in American politics” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z Her grandmother, whose childhood home was burned down by the Ku Klux Klan, was one of the first Black people to work at the Pentagon and desegregated the church Coaston’s family attended. D.C.’s rising libertarian star, with her ‘healthy skepticism of state power,’ secures an influential podcast 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Robb, the Klan leader, spoke near the end of the evening. White supremacists protest Black History Month event in Arkansas 2014-02-14T13:45:00Z Understand: I’m not suggesting that Carlson or his Fox colleagues are stashing their Klan robes in the newsroom closet. Perspective | Tucker Carlson’s claim that white supremacy is a hoax is easy to prove wrong. Just watch his show. 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Enormous cherry still lifes and loony faces, macabre chorus lines of legs, hapless-looking Ku Klux Klan figures: These paintings deliver a sardonic commentary on art, art-making, politics and life that never goes out of style. MoMA Upends Its Collection to Celebrate Late Careers 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Eli and deputy barge into a Klan meeting -- held in a church -- with shotguns drawn and remove the Grand Cyclops, also known as a local dry goods merchant. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z His assignment begins when he responds to a newspaper ad placed by the Klan; he phones the local chapter leader and says he wants to join. The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z After that and threats from the Ku Klux Klan, organizers disbanded. Dollywood: A Little Bit Country, a Little Bit Gay 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z He has set up a Klan tableau of more than 100 objects, from paintings to dolls to hoods. After a lifetime of capturing what was, Christenberry faces what is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z Griffith’s notorious 1915 silent film, which portrays the Ku Klux Klan in a positive light, Parker’s Birth of a Nation instead follows Turner, who led a violent rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Fox Searchlight Buys 'The Birth of a Nation' for Record-Breaking Price 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z Perfect opportunity for "Smurf" conspiracy theorists to come out of the woodwork: There really are people out there who truly believe the Smurfs are composed of Klan members. Why do so many people online hate "The Smurfs"? 2011-07-29T22:30:00Z What Gray and Cram show in the documentary is that Griffith’s film, though it clearly spurred racist violence and even the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, landed in fertile soil. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Burden says other Klan members once suggested that he kill Kennedy, and he considered it. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Tye’s account of Superman’s 1946 run-in with the Ku Klux Klan is slightly muffled, perhaps because it has been thoroughly covered elsewhere. ‘Superman,’ by Larry Tye 2012-07-06T22:10:04Z The Klan images themselves weren’t the primary source of offense; his betrayal of “high” art was. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Early reactions to the new release have focused on the shocking disclosure that Atticus Finch, far from being a hero, is an uneasy segregationist who once attended a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Scout grows up 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Mannequins dressed as Ku Klux Klan are dotted throughout the Chapmans' exhibition, which also includes screenings of their unfinished 2010 film The Organ Grinder's Monkey, featuring 007 star Daniel Craig clad in a gorilla suit. In pictures: Chapmans at the Serpentine 2013-11-28T17:25:21Z The four museums organizing the show told us that Guston’s later paintings, with men in hoods reminiscent of Ku Klux Klan members, risked being “misinterpreted” today. The Most Important Moments in Art in 2020 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z “The Klan owned the state,” Egan writes, “and Stephenson owned the Klan.” 11 New Books Coming in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Over this scene, Mr. Shaw painted a giant praying mantis and semitransparent ghosts, including three Ku Klux Klan figures — spectral nightmares of genocide, slavery and other psychopathologies haunting the American dream. Jim Shaw at the New Museum: A Kaleidoscope of Giddy Delirium 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z To find yourself inwardly cheering the Ku Klux Klan, as Ben’s troops ride to the rescue, is a discomfiting experience but also a valuable one. ?Birth of a Nation,? Born Again for DVD 2011-11-27T05:03:04Z “It’s a lot easier to confront subjects like white supremacy or the Klan as evil villains,” Valdez said. How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The Klan was so powerful in Southern California that it nicknamed Anaheim “Klanaheim.” The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z They were as feared on the United States-Mexico border as the Ku Klux Klan was in the Deep South. The True Story of the Texas Rangers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z It depicts the Ku Klux Klan as the sole defense of white women against the depraved lust of black men. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Since 2011, the weekly has run a semi-regular series about Orange County founders who were members of the Ku Klux Klan. Why Gustavo Arellano's OC Weekly departure highlights the endangered status of Latinos in media 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z On June 21, three of those activists — James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman — disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss. They were killed by the Ku Klux Klan. Review: In ‘Two Trains Runnin’,’ the Convergence of Idealism, Brutality and Artistic Genius 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z Like today’s alt-right, the second Klan envisioned an American past cut from mythical cloth: an America without immigrants, an America ruled by Anglo-Saxon whites, an America that prayed in unison to an evangelical-Christian God. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z At the time, he felt that viewers needed a reminder that the Ku Klux Klan still existed. Where did the radical right come from? Television tries to make sense of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z The guild said that Griffith's classic film, "Birth of a Nation," glorified the Ku Klux Klan and fostered racial stereotypes. TV director, DGA president Jack Shea dies at 84 2013-04-30T15:05:09Z Members of the Ku Klux Klan on horseback swiftly turn them away. A Hundred Years Later, “The Birth of a Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z When they arrive, they find it teeming with Klan activity. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Life Sentence’ and ‘Hard Sun’ 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z The Montgomery bus boycott ended after 381 days when the court struck down the segregation laws; Klan terrorists bombed Dr. King’s house and the homes of other boycott leaders. The Civil Rights Stories We Need to Remember 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z The faces of four revered but profoundly flawed presidents were carved into the stone by a talented sculptor who sympathized with the Ku Klux Klan. Perspective | Trump got his crowd and his fireworks, and peddled his fiction 2020-07-04T04:00:00Z “I would say you’re looking at obese white men between 50 and 60 who are active Klan members, or members of the Aryan Nation, and there are millions of them,” he said. Dan Aykroyd Fires Back at Leslie Jones Twitter Haters 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z What do you say when people criticize you for spending limited time, limited resources defending the rights of Nazi groups or the Ku Klux Klan? ‘We the people’ means all of us, ACLU director says 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z This discussion unfolds in one of the book’s strongest sections, a retelling of a bizarre arranged meeting between Malcolm and the leadership of the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta in 1961. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z Rice's fondness for the Second Amendment began while watching her father sit on the porch with a gun, ready to defend his family against the Klan's night riders. 'Extraordinary, Ordinary People': Condoleezza Rice's incomplete tale 2010-10-13T00:01:00Z Malcolm’s middle-class parents moved several times, often into neighborhoods they knew were hostile, confronting the Ku Klux Klan, local officials and bigoted employers. A New Life of Malcolm X Brimming With Detail, Insight and Feeling 2020-10-19T04:00:00Z He kept his notes on the investigation — in violation of his chief’s order to destroy his records once the operation was over — and, in his wallet, his Klan membership card. He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z The second Klan was national in scope, with a surprisingly small footprint in the South — its highest per-capita state memberships were in Indiana and Oregon. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Of particular concern was the debut of his Klan paintings in 1970. Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z For his efforts, Waring was menaced by the Ku Klux Klan and threatened with impeachment. A South Carolina Judge Writes a Book About a Predecessor, an Unsung Giant of Civil Rights Law 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Saturday Night Live mocked the support presidential hopeful Donald Trump has received from white supremacists after his controversial endorsement from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Watch Saturday Night Live's 'Racists for Trump' Ad 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z The most charged image depicts a figure under a Klan robe and hood. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z And while few would expect anything less from the Conservative Political Action Conference, it’s telling that they got more worked up seeing someone in a mock Trump outfit than in Ku Klux Klan robes. Rudy Giuliani, Maria Bakalova and an antisemitic cake: discuss Borat Subsequent Moviefilm with spoilers 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Beginning with an interview with a Ku Klux Klan leader who threatened her life, the Colombian-born Univision anchor turns the camera on herself. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Nero drags a coffin containing a machine gun around a corrupt post-civil war town on the Mexican border and clashes with the Ku Klux Klan. Django Unchained – review 2013-01-20T00:06:00Z For his painting, he said, he was “invoking the sinister yet very real existence of the Klan and white supremacy today, hiding in clear sight among us.” When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z He regularly receives death threats from the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi and Christian supremacy groups, he says, but Greaves is more concerned for his country’s future than his own. Devil's advocate: are satanists now the good guys in the fight against the evangelical right? 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Ron notices an ad in a local newspaper for Ku Klux Klan recruitment. “BlacKkKlansman,” Reviewed: Spike Lee’s Vision of Resistance to White Supremacy 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Griffith epic that simultaneously spurred the rise of the Second Ku Klux Klan and of cinema as an art form. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z That building, once the property of the Klan, now belongs to a black preacher and committed foe of racism who fought the group for more than 20 years. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Egan tells the story of the Klan’s rise to prominence in the 1920s, focusing on D.C. 19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z And when Scout Finch, one of the play’s central narrators, called out the man behind a white Ku Klux Klan hood, the crowd oohed as if their team had stolen back the ball. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ Meets an Arena Full of Students 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Gordon wants readers to consider the second Klan in light of recent American politics, but it’s important to parse what that era does and doesn’t say about our current situation. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Racism, for example, is not simply a matter of spectacular violence or membership in the Ku Klux Klan. Oscars 2019: Beyond the stats, why diversity matters 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z But Klan violence intensified, as did American involvement in Vietnam. Think You Know the 1960s? ‘The Shattering’ Asks You to Think Again. 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z In Alabama, the Klan beat the Freedom Riders with impunity. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z This drama, based on the true story of two police officers in Colorado Springs who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, is among Lee’s most politically passionate films. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Adam Driver, who plays Ron Stallworth’s partner, Flip Zimmerman, the Jewish police officer who goes undercover with the Klan, said the political weight of the film’s message hit home. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Ali “might just as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan,” he charged. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy group that tracks hate groups, there are at least five active Klan chapters in Texas. Do new Texas textbooks whitewash slavery and segregation? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z Griffith’s 1915 blockbuster “The Birth of a Nation,” a movie so racist it is thought to have sparked the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. Capturing the Magic of Movies 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z According to him, “a tangential member of the Ku Klux Klan” witnessed the kiss and subsequently blew up a vehicle parked nearby. It’s true, Martin Luther King Jr. paid the hospital bill when actress Julia Roberts was born 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z “Ron Stallworth is reading the paper, the Colorado Springs Gazette, and the Klan put an ad in the paper that they needed new members,” Lee explained in a recent Tribeca film festival panel. BlacKkKlansman trailer: first look at Spike Lee's fact-based race drama 2018-05-14T04:00:00Z There are criticisms of Ronald Reagan and Republican tax plans, and the movie uses archival news footage to suggest parallels between Ku Klux Klan meetings and President Trump’s political supporters. ‘The Great American Lie’ Review: Another Interpretation of the Dream 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z One volunteer’s father told his son, “If the Klan gets a hold of you, yell ‘My father is a Mason!’ ” Books of The Times: Bruce Watson?s ?Freedom Summer? in Mississippi 2010-07-18T21:55:00Z According to an account given by Mr. Capote’s cousin, Klan members came because they heard African-American guests had been invited to the costume party, and left after Nelle’s father, A. C. Lee, confronted them. Harper Lee and Truman Capote: A Collaboration in Mischief 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z In the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, "imagination was encouraged" in the creation of costumes by members, who competed to create the most "outrageous outfit." Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The Klan was a major presence in early 20th century Texas; at one point in the 1920s, more than 13,000 Texans were members of the group in Dallas alone. Do new Texas textbooks whitewash slavery and segregation? 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan had supporters in both Republican and Democrat parties. 1963: from the Stones to Dr Strangelove, a year of social and cultural upheaval 2013-05-07T05:00:01Z John David Washington and Adam Driver play a pair of police detectives who infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan during the 1970s in this Spike Lee joint. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Atlanta’ and the Academy Awards 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z The backlash was severe as people worried any spotlight would help normalize the Ku Klux Klan after an election that emboldened white nationalists. Trump is our first reality TV president. So how could his victory change reality TV? 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z They’ve seen America’s first black president elected and a presidential candidate hesitate to disavow the Ku Klux Klan. Review: ‘Roots’ for a Black Lives Matter Era 2016-05-29T04:00:00Z I'm not amazed that the Coup Klux Klan insurrection happened, but I am amazed that this level of police restraint exists. The selective restraint of American police on display at the Capitol riot amazed me 2021-01-17T05:00:00Z Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”, about a black police officer who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan won the runner-up prize, the Grand Prix. Japanese movie 'Shoplifters' wins Cannes Palme d'Or 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z He was a Southerner, and, as a historian, he had written in support of the Ku Klux Klan. The Black Activist Who Fought Against D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Evoking the Ku Klux Klan, it has a powerfully mythic resonance. Four Rewarding Shows in Philadelphia 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z To add insult to injury, the embattled 20-year-old also mentions joining the Ku Klux Klan, according to the the Sun and TMZ, which obtained the latest clip. Justin Bieber uses racial slur again, talks KKK in clip 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z As police chaperoned the Klan into the park, protesters confronted the Klan with chants of “shame” and “racists go home.” Charlottesville, “happiest city in America” — but for whom? 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z She was happy to list his offenses – “calling Mexicans rapists,” “trafficking in prejudice and paranoia” – and even noted that he “couldn’t decide whether to disavow the Ku Klux Klan and David Duke.” Let’s dispense with political correctness and talk straight: Donald Trump is a racist 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z In the final and most dramatic scenes, the Klan assembles, rides into town, and saves the day by brutally subjugating blacks. A Hundred Years Later, “The Birth of a Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z Griffith’s pioneering film that glorified the Ku Klux Klan and painted black men as predators. #OscarsSoWhite isn’t the only problem diversity faces in Hollywood 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z Alone, their mother warded off everything from rattlesnakes on their property to threats from the Ku Klux Klan, who thought that Liberto, an Italian-American born in Texas, was Black. ‘My Darling Vivian’ Review: The Forgotten Wife of Johnny Cash 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z A life-size figure in a Klan robe and mask dangles noose-bound from one of the crosses. Forget Snoop Dogg’s Trump clown: This anti-Trump hip hop video is radical, thought-provoking and wildly popular 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z But it quickly appears that the Lees are unwelcome when Klan of the Fiery Kross members burn a cross on their lawn. Perspective | Five new books for your teenager’s summer reading pile 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z There wasn’t a Ku Klux Klan presence or racial violence, which was the case in some neighboring areas. How three powerful movies this year took on Virginia’s troubled racial history 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z The Charlottesville Police Department protected the Klan’s presence in the park more than an hour beyond the time allotted on the permit. Charlottesville, “happiest city in America” — but for whom? 2017-08-20T04:00:00Z The museum will display the original coffin of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old savagely killed in Mississippi in 1955; Ku Klux Klan hoods; and a piece of rope used in a lynching. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z The new CNN show “United Shades of America” begins with host W. Kamau Bell driving down a country road late at night for a rendezvous with an imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Can W. Kamau Bell make CNN hilarious? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Smog, police corruption, and of course the Ku Klux Klan. For William Gibson, Seeing the Future Is Easy. But the Past? 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z He and his people even invoked the name of Dr. King as an example of what they should do to make the Klan a political organization. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z There’s more jogging, but here it serves as glue for the text spoken by Ms. Rainer and her dancers: quotations touching on Rousseau, the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Semitism, amnesia and more. Dance Review: Yvonne Rainer and Group at Danspace Project 2013-01-26T00:51:55Z That show included controversial work he had been making since the early 1960s, documenting the activities and iconography of the Ku Klux Klan. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z The film was based on a novel by an old acquaintance of Wilson’s, and incorporated title cards that loosely quoted Wilson’s own work — including some strikingly sentimental descriptions of the Ku Klux Klan. In ‘The Moralist,’ Woodrow Wilson and the Hazards of Idealism 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Described by the curator Walter Hopps as “an exorcism of racism,” the material was kept by Mr. Christenberry in what he called the “Klan room” off his studio in Washington. William A. Christenberry, Photographer of Rural South, Dies at 80 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Paul Rucker, a Baltimore artist, is arranging about 50 mannequins on the institute’s main floor, each wearing hoods and robes reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan but wildly patterned instead of white. A Provocative New Space for Art Emerges in Virginia 2018-03-24T04:00:00Z By the late 1860s and early 1870s, the Ku Klux Klan and other vigilante groups more or less crushed real dissent and poor whites were brought into the privileges of Whiteness. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The conversation moved, perhaps inevitably, to Mr. Trump’s Sunday interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, in which he did not immediately denounce David Duke, the former Klan leader who supports him. On CNN, Debating Trump and the Ku Klux Klan. Really. 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z In an alcove to my left is a bust of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, an early member of the Klan, which stands next to a photograph of a Little League team. Dixie Outfitters is still fighting the Civil War 2013-09-11T22:59:00Z And the crazy Thomas the train cartoon with a Ku Klux Klan hood on it was the end of the end. ‘The NRA has blood on its hands,’ says ‘Inside the NRA’ author and former strategist 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z Not forgiving is a part of the comfort zone from childhood, because I was raised intellectual, and of course you don't forgive Barry Goldwater or you don't forgive the Ku Klux Klan. Anne Lamott on coping with "existential exhaustion," from the healing power of Target to forgiveness 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Upon entering Fayetteville, N.C., home of Fort Bragg, with my wife and 1½-year-old son, we encountered a huge billboard: “Join & Support The United Klans of America, Inc. Help Fight Communism & Integration. Welcome to Fayetteville.” Letters to the Editor 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z When I froze as a young journalist while covering a story about a Klan march. "They got Daddy": Reckoning with my grandfather's kidnapping, racial terror and our family's trauma 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Powerful objects The collection includes potent artifacts, including a Ku Klux Klan hood and stereotypical representations of black Americans. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z And because Reconstruction ended, there was a century in the south of the Ku Klux Klan and terrorism and all the ugliness of American history that we often prefer not to think about. ‘We may have a wild roller-coaster ride’ after the election, says Ohio State law professor Edward Foley 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z So you will see people in Klan robes, which is a real thing, and then squids will fall from the sky, which is not. Who Will Watch ‘Watchmen’? 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z However, the Klan of the 1920s drew heavily upon religion in framing its mission as a holy cause. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z “Yet its mood of airless bigotry is quite effective, portraying the Klan’s influence with officials and the police as an ingrained stain on the fabric of the town.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘Resident Alien’ 2021-01-25T05:00:00Z She recalls the Ku Klux Klan riding through their neighborhood when she was a little girl. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Yet its mood of airless bigotry is quite effective, portraying the Klan’s influence with officials and the police as an ingrained stain on the fabric of the town. ‘Burden’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Change of Heart 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Christenberry lets us engage the symbol, and shows how the Klan symbology is embedded across our culture. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z In December, Facts was briefly hospitalized after MSNBC's erroneous report that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's campaign was using an expression once used by the Ku Klux Klan. Facts, 360 B.C.-A.D. 2012 2012-04-20T21:47:00Z The reason: After the national turbulence generated by the police killing of George Floyd, the presentation of Guston’s work, and particularly its Klan imagery, required rethinking. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z Talk show host Montel Williams, who was in the audience, was so offended that he later compared the whole affair to “a meeting of the Klan.” ‘It’s a sickness’: How our culture recognizes blackface is racist — but won’t stop doing it 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z Lee is a master of comic caricature and the Klan members offer scope for a full range of racist imbecility. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z In a political landscape that ugly and brash, Frank’s panic over a photograph of his father with a Klan member seems positively Victorian. How the reality of Trump's America outpaced House of Cards 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z He was last elected governor in 1991, when he defeated former Ku Klux Klan wizard David Duke in a landslide. Ex-La. gov convicted of corruption gets TV show 2013-01-04T20:29:11Z The donkey initiated a long sequence of animal installations in venues all over the world: macabre horses hung from ceilings, a suicidal squirrel, a bright-eyed baby elephant in a Ku Klux Klan outfit. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z References to the Ku Klux Klan, which the novel calls “a tragic necessity,” were omitted. The Long Battle Over ‘Gone With the Wind’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Eventually, though, Shepherd quit the Klan, and for many years now he has been an outspoken campaigner against extremist hate groups. Former KKK leader faces racist past and his 102-year-old African-American caretaker 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z In the 1940s, for publications like Time, Esquire and The New York Post, he caricatured villains, including Axis leaders and Ku Klux Klan members. Antiques: Arthur Szyk?s Haggadah and Singapore?s Sunken Arab Treasure 2011-03-10T21:28:27Z It’s a look that never quite goes away as he’s made to dress in drag, navigate the Ku Klux Klan and make Gleason feel good about his racism and terrible parenting. Why Do the Oscars Keep Falling for Racial Reconciliation Fantasies? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z She still lives just minutes away from the Stone Mountain monument and only blocks away from a street named after that prominent Klan family — Venable Street. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z “If I were presenting a recruiting film for the Ku Klux Klan,” he said, “I’d be astounded if they’d be fine with putting it on.” A Festival Is ‘Uncensored’ No More After Pulling a Work About Gender 2023-01-09T05:00:00Z “One online commentator compared Anderson’s views to those held by Nazis and members of the Ku Klux Klan. Others likened Anderson’s opinions to hate speech — a caricaturization with which Anderson strongly disagrees.” This is not how you win the marriage equality debate 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z He hates his own race so virulently that almost everyone, from the Ku Klux Klan to his own corporal, has a motive for killing him. Review: In ‘A Soldier’s Play,’ an Endless War Against Black Men 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z I was on that bus that was firebombed in Anniston, and the Klan held the door shut while the bus was burning. 'Freedom Riders': The fight to end segregation 2010-12-21T17:39:15Z The stickers show a figure resembling the U.S. president standing between figures in white capes, which symbolize members of the white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan, the artist told Reuters Television in a recent interview. Japan artist says latest sticker graffiti aimed at Trump 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Lee was just about to go into production on “BlacKkKlansman,” about a black policeman who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. What makes an American a patriot? Spike Lee has some answers 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z The cultural view of the new America is that the biblical view of homosexual sex is backward, the stuff of cavemen or the Ku Klux Klan, ” Dickerson said. The last evangelical celebrity? Tim Tebow’s firing may signal a recession among the faithful 2013-05-07T11:45:00Z One problem was that the F.B.I. refused to share evidence with local officials, whom it knew to be sympathetic to the Ku Klux Klan. The Journalist and the Murderers 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z There he picked up art early — Jackson Pollock was a high school friend — and aligned himself with leftist politics, an involvement that led to brushes with militant right-wing groups, including the Klan. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z The “Klan Tableau” was a personal, obsessive project but a number of people were involved. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z In real life, Trump failed to condemn the Klan when repeatedly asked about it, during a nationally televised interview. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z He and his companions flee from a cyclops, sirens and the Ku Klux Klan, making some great music along the way. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Krypton’ and ‘The X-Files’ 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z The violence is so stylishly choreographed it looks like an Armani ad, and the baddies – including the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan – always get what’s coming to them. Live by Night: how the gangster film went from top of the world to sleeping with the fishes 2017-01-08T05:00:00Z It's an adaptation of the true story of Ron Stallworth, the first black detective to work in the Colorado Police Department in the 1970s, who also managed to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan. “Black Panther” up for best picture: Will Oscars follow Golden Globes’ lead? 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z As Shepherd explains in “My Racist Days,” his break with the Klan was precipitated by an FBI investigation. Former KKK leader faces racist past and his 102-year-old African-American caretaker 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z And so of course not only do federal troops pull out but then I argued that the Klan crushes a lot of it. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z We hear from two who have family members who were in the Ku Klux Klan. ‘Always in Season’ Review: Lynching Is Not Just Part of America’s Past 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z “It’s a lot easier to confront subjects like white supremacy or the Klan as evil villains,” Mr. Valdez said. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z The Birth of a Nation,’ undeniably, led to the rebirth of the Klan. Spike Lee Turns a Period Piece Into a Protest of the Trump Era 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The debate: Spike Lee is finally getting a victory lap thanks to the box office and critical success of this film, about a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. A Pocket Guide to the Oscars’ Beefiest Controversies 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Him in jail? – but I think this is a film made to fulfil a bet made at a Klan members’ barbecue, so instead he thrives and succeeds. Is Loqueesha the worst film ever made? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan made use of costumes and mythic rituals as they practiced extreme violence against African-Americans. What Do You Do When Extremism Comes for the Hawaiian Shirt? 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z “I was watching TV, my brother Anderson Cooper. Agent Orange” — his nickname for President Trump — “the Klan, the alt right, David Duke. They wrote the ending.” Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z This show of 100 works, once postponed because of controversy over depictions of Ku Klux Klan members, makes its debut at the first of four venues. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z Her most recent Rae Beast production, “Unearth Birmingham,” is more urgent: a response to the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by members of the Ku Klux Klan. A Choreographer and Her Girls Retell a Tragedy Through Dance 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z The Klan's resurgence in the 20s partially stemmed from the temperance movement. Boardwalk Empire: season one, episode two 2011-02-02T22:10:00Z At night, the newly formed Ku Klux Klan set upon “black men and women and their white Republican friends … yanked them out of bed, and whipped them with beech sapling switches before they rode off.” The First Presidential Impeachment 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z He claimed never to have joined the Klan but he was active in the local White Citizens Council and, like the Klan, saw himself as a defender of the Southern way of life. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z But it was his experience infiltrating the Klan that stood out to him as a story worthy of a book. He Wrote a Memoir About Infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Then Spike Lee Turned It Into a Film. 2018-08-31T04:00:00Z In the fall, the national racial reckoning caused the museum to postpone the highly anticipated exhibit “Philip Guston Now,” which contains images that include Ku Klux Klan hoods. The National Gallery is back. And it’s done being subtle about its brand and mission. 2021-05-12T04:00:00Z The third season focuses on the devastating story of Charles Moore and Henry Dee, two Black men whose murders in 1964 by Ku Klux Klan members resulted in no convictions for more than 40 years. 6 Podcasts About Unsolved Mysteries 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Don’t count out Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” the true story of a black police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Oscar Nominations: ‘Roma,’ ‘The Favourite’ and ‘Black Panther’ Break Ground 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z They were as feared on the United States-Mexico border as the Ku Klux Klan was in the Deep South.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z "In 'Go Set a Watchman,' he has turned a treacherous corner, aligning with the citizen’s council and the Ku Klux Klan." Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' sells 1.1 million copies in 6 days 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z He endured racism without mentioning it much in his letters, and he remained calm when the Ku Klux Klan paraded at Tuskegee. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z So off he went to Arkansas and Kentucky to meet with Klan members and even witness a cross burning — “I mean lighting. I don’t want to be politically incorrect,” Bell joked. Can W. Kamau Bell make CNN hilarious? 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z George Wallace publicly disavowed Klan violence in Alabama, but hired Klansman Al Lingo to oversee his state’s Highway Patrol. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z With its costumes, the Reconstruction-era Klan liked to perpetuate the legend that its members were the ghosts of Confederate soldiers. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The anti-Trump sentiment continues here on the well-intentioned and outlandishly corny “Like Home,” in which Alicia Keys sings a toothlessly uplifting chorus while Eminem likens the president to Hitler and the Ku Klux Klan. Hip-Hop Changes. Eminem Doesn’t. 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z A. The Klan sold itself to white Protestant evangelicals as a law enforcement organization, winning droves of recruits with its promise to clamp down on bootlegging. Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z In “Memphis,” the newly issued fourth chapter of the series, Roberts stitches together elements of roots music, free jazz, and avant-garde assemblage to invoke an ancestor whose father was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Raúl Esparza, “Seared,” and Yvonne Rainer 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Eli may not care much for the black man one way or another, but he viscerally dislikes the Klan and wastes no opportunity to make the Cyclops' stay in custody as unpleasant as possible. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” about a black detective who goes undercover with the Ku Klux Klan, also was honored. Oscars not so white? Academy Awards winners see big shift 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z But the most famous episode of “United Shades” was its very first, in which Bell — a tall black man with an Afro — sat down for a long talk with members of the Ku Klux Klan. “I don’t have an agenda; I just want to learn”: Salon talks to W. Kamau Bell about “United Shades of America” 2017-05-04T04:00:00Z The goal: to show the Klan at the unvarnished grass-roots level. Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Stallworth’s undercover operation, which saw him artfully infiltrate a local Ku Klux Klan chapter, earned him the unintended respect and reverence of KKK leader and grand wizard, David Duke. BlacKkKlansman: the grim topicality of Spike Lee's 70s-set KKK film 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Images include lynchings, bread lines, a Ku Klux Klan march. ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ Review: What We Could Have Done 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z In 1915, The Birth of a Nation celebrated America's reconstruction after the Civil War with African-Americans played by white actors in blackface, together with a sympathetic attitude to the Ku Klux Klan. Attempting the Impossible: why does western cinema whitewash Asian stories? 2013-01-02T13:48:00Z Stephenson, a grand dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan who helped plot the group’s national strategy. 11 New Books Coming in April 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Rucker, who is in residence at V.C.U., working with students, is interspersing historical artifacts related to the Ku Klux Klan with his refashioned Klansmen robes. New Contemporary Art Institute Reverberates in Richmond’s Historic Landscape 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Immigrant laborers and farmers introduced the St. Andrew’s Cross to the Confederate flag, and the Highlanders’ burning cross was adopted as a symbol by the Ku Klux Klan. Wolfgang Schivelbusch, Polymathic Cultural Historian, Dies at 81 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z The company’s tour coincided with a Ku Klux Klan convention. Black History Month: Pressing Forward on the Heels of Progress 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Archival photographs of Nazi concentration camps and Ku Klux Klan meetings — of a sort openly displayed in many history museums — are here hidden away in slide-top vitrines. After a Tempest, Philip Guston Shines in a Show True to His Spirit 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z He expressed concern that some white supremacists might interpret the painting as a glorification of the Klan. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z How they hid under a bed, crying in fear for a half-day after someone pulled a prank and said the Ku Klux Klan was on its way. Her Family Owned Slaves. How Can She Make Amends? 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z Surprisingly, the BBC’s panel of critics has voted Birth of a Nation, the notorious silent film praising the Ku Klux Klan, into 39th place. Citizen Kane voted greatest ever American film in BBC poll 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Gary Simmons’ installation, “Duck, Duck, Noose” – a hangman’s noose surrounded by Ku Klux Klan hoods placed on wooden chairs – is more nightmarish than ever. 4 art exhibitions to see at Seattle-area galleries in December 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Readers’ jaws will drop at how expansive and structured the Klan was, from its code words to its machine-like control over City Councils and state legislatures. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z When the fictionalized C. P. is first seen, he’s chairing a Klan meeting and setting out the group’s hatreds but adding that the movement is about being “a part of something bigger” than oneself. “The Best of Enemies,” Reviewed: A Tale of Interracial Friendship Only Slightly Less Offensive Than “Green Book” 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z This summer, after the nationwide protests following the killing of George Floyd, curators undertook revisions of the wall text, paying special concern to how Black viewers saw the Klan paintings. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z That, and a hidden vault where he keeps his grandfather’s Klan robes. "Watchmen" finale: One last reveal explains all those eggs and the crushing weight of legacy 2019-12-16T05:00:00Z “Precisely because the second Klan was so mainstream,” she writes, “examining it also reveals continuing currents in American history, currents at times rising to the surface, at other times remaining subterranean.” The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z One scene involves an evening encounter with an early version of the Ku Klux Klan. | Below the Line: Visualizing 'Django Unchained' 2013-02-06T17:30:15Z Photos from that era by Richard Avedon show black skaters carrying signs that say things like “Put Down Hate and Let’s Skate,” while others show Ku Klux Klan members holding their own placards bearing swastikas. And the Beat Goes On 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z And while it may appall you to thrill to the excruciating suspense of the climactic sequence, in which the Klan rides to the rescue, that’s as it should be. The New Season DVDs: New DVDs: ?Citizen Kane,? ?Going Places,? ?Birth of a Nation? 2011-09-18T00:13:03Z In the introductory group, represented in the show by ink studies only, Mr. Andrews looked back to his Georgia childhood with tableaus that mixed family portraits and Ku Klux Klan figures. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z It’s the unfinished business of a nation, playing out today in the calls for the removal of statues of Confederate soldiers and in the resurgence of the Klan. Faulkner and Other Ghosts Sing Through Jesmyn Ward’s New Novel 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z Then there’s Lee’s drama “Black Klansman,” a fact-based biopic, due out next year, about a black Colorado police officer who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan. ‘4 Little Girls,’ ‘Titanic’ and ‘Die Hard’ added to Library of Congress registry 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z Unfortunately, they look more like metallic beekeepers than members of, say, the Ku Klux Klan. Review: At Alvin Ailey, Tragic Themes Overwhelm a Dance 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z The message was clear: any hate is welcome, and under Tyler's tenure, many tens of thousands of new members joined the Klan's ranks. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z RaMell, when Pace suggested showing the “Klan Tableau,” you were enthusiastic. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Griffith's silent film "Birth of a Nation," which portrayed the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic group, "the most powerful 'anti-Tom' work in history." 'Mightier than the Sword': How 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' changed the course of American history 2011-06-15T19:38:03Z Incendiary parable for the Trump era from Spike Lee, dramatising the true story of an African American policeman who helps infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. The 50 best movies of 2018 in the US: 50-41 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z “Ku Klux Klan was still around in those days,” Bethune says. They fed the civil rights movement. Now are black-owned barbecue joints dying? 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z He thought about the most vile, hate-filled response he could give to impress a Klan member.” What to Read About ‘Green Book’ and the Other Best Picture Nominees 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z In a coincidence not lost on the director, at the same time that Stallworth was infiltrating the Klan, Lee was involved in some anti-fascist action of his own. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z For the first time in years, “Escaping the KKK” declared in its preview, membership in the Klan is rising, mainly through the targeted recruitment of families and children. The “Generation KKK” Fiasco 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z “In my discussion of the Ku Klux Klan I am not neutral,” she writes, adding later in the same paragraph, “I am offering an interpretation, not a scholarly monograph.” The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Within a few years the ambitious project of Reconstruction fell victim to a sustained insurgency led by the Ku Klux Klan and similar white militia groups. Welcome to the new Civil War 2013-01-05T16:30:00Z The series’ producer, Aengus James, said his intention was to show the day-to-day lives of Klan members. KKK documentary canceled after A&E learns producers paid Klan members 2016-12-25T05:00:00Z At the bookstore, I listened as Jones read a poem about seeing a Ku Klux Klan uniform on display at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Poetry in a Time of Protest 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z An even earlier memory was of her grandfather keeping watch at night to protect his family and home from an attack by violent racists known as the Ku Klux Klan. For Rosa Parks, standing up to injustice started when she was a kid 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z When they stop, they are murdered and their bodies hidden by a mob of white men connected to the Ku Klux Klan. Mississippi Burning: a civil rights story of good intentions and suspect politics 2013-04-10T09:34:57Z In 2017, two former Florida prison guards who were Klan members were convicted of plotting to murder an imprisoned black man. Through his art, a former prisoner diagnoses the systemic sickness of Florida’s penitentiaries 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Whoever thought the Ku Klux Klan would endorse a major-party candidate? Yes, He Thought Trump Would Win. No, He Didn’t Use Hard Data. 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z And it is no coincidence that the revival of the Klan in the 1920s was in part popularized by the costumed Klansmen portrayed in the blockbuster film "Birth of a Nation." Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z As a symbol of white supremacy, it was sung by the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Ku Klux Klan. Is Stephen Foster's song "My Old Kentucky Home" pro-slavery or anti-slavery? 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z Mr. Lee also tasked himself with ensuring that the evil of the Klan, its iconography and cinematic imagery so familiar to contemporary audiences, could still land with the needed impact. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The storyline was that when you infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, they were in an image-control stage. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Her grandmother was relatively well-off, but the family was subject to casual racism and the violence of the Ku Klux Klan. Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights advocate, dies at 86 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The subject line on Roper’s post was “Klan vs. Antis Tues. Night.” White supremacists protest Black History Month event in Arkansas 2014-02-14T13:45:00Z “Black Crows in the White Section Only” brings together a variety of racist advertisements, anchored by two hooded Ku Klux Klan figures atop American flags. Betye Saar at MoMA: Prelude to a Revolutionary Breakthrough 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “We labeled the section that deals with the Klan ‘HATE,’” Ms. Albion said. Lincoln Library Cancels Exhibition Over Racial Sensitivity Concerns 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z I also went to a Ku Klux Klan meeting once, and drove my car too close to their bonfire. “I’m an Outsider on the Inside”: An Interview with Bruce Davidson 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z Gloria Brown grew up in the town of Stone Mountain, Georgia, the birthplace of the modern Ku Klux Klan. A Confederate memorial towers over Stone Mountain, Georgia. A local African American woman wants it to stay there. 2019-05-14T04:00:00Z Though Healy early invokes the fact that Soul City was located near Klan country, he only ever vaguely signals that the city faced local racial resistance. The Black American City That Almost Came to Be 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z The other’s dressed for a Ku Klux Klan meeting — mask, robe, pointy hat and everything. The Governor Who Partied Like It’s 1884 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z The film shares the same title as a 1915 movie, widely seen as propaganda for white supremacy group Ku Klux Klan, but Parker's version reclaims "Birth of a Nation" to show the brutality of racism. 'Birth of a Nation' confronts America's racial past and present 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, one white supremacist and Ku Klux Klan leader, Chris Barker, said last month that his movement would destroy immigrants: “We killed 6 million Jews the last time. Eleven million is nothing.” Perspective | Here’s the best thing the media can do when reporting on ‘antifa’ 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z With his crew cut and plaid shirt sleeves rolled up to his biceps, he could have been cast as Klan Man No. 1 in “Mississippi Burning.” Wendell Pierce: The First Time My Dad Gave Me ‘The Talk’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z After the Civil War, he joined the Klan and fervidly embraced the cult of the Lost Cause, also ensuring that his children were “dipped deep” in this white supremacist ideology. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z It’s also disappointing that Claire’s reason for playing the Klan card is to make Frank so vulnerable that he’ll agree to make her his running mate. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z The problem is that some Tulsans are resistant to change; many of our institutions are financed by people with direct connections to the Ku Klux Klan members who ran the city when the massacre occurred. ‘Through Art, I Hope That We Can Make One Tulsa’ 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z It's appalling to learn that the Ku Klux Klan was able to draw crowds of 50,000 or more in the Seattle area in the 1920s. 'New Land' a different approach to state history 2011-11-10T20:44:52Z Through the nineteen-seventies, former Grand Wizard David Duke screened the film at Klan meetings. A Hundred Years Later, “The Birth of a Nation” Hasn’t Gone Away 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z In fact, earlier this year, Trump hesitated to disavow an endorsement from a former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Susan Sarandon blasts Woody Allen and Donald Trump at Cannes 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z Jones was an integrationist in 1950s Indianapolis, the capital of a state whose countryside was stalked by the Klan. The divine inspiration of Jim Jones: Inside the mind of one of history’s deadliest cult leaders 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Or that a team of black players competed against a Ku Klux Klan team in 1925, and won? The Museums Times Reporters Like to Visit on Their Days Off 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z Although Brown was no radical, while campaigning for General Grant he called the Democrats the party of slavery and the Klan. The Tumultuous Path From Emancipation to Segregation 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Specifically, it’s about the mid-’60s North Carolina Klan, which grew from nothing to nearly 10,000 members in just two years, in what was supposedly the South’s most progressive state. ‘Klansville U.S.A.’ Explores the Ku Klux Klan of the ’60s 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Two of them were sentenced to life in prison, and the murder was followed by a surge in Ku Klux Klan activity in the area. Is There a Place for the President of the Confederacy? 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Titled “Philip Guston Now,” it contained 24 images with imagery that evokes the Klan, a spokeswoman for the National Gallery said, and two more where the imagery is less obvious. Delay of Philip Guston Retrospective Divides the Art World 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Doig counterbalances the forces of progressive thought in this rural community, as exemplified by Angus, Wes and Susan, with the narrow minds and racist brutality of the local Ku Klux Klan. 1920s Montana comes to life in Book-It's 'Prairie Nocturne' 2012-02-17T18:44:05Z Hundreds more subsequently signed the open letter, which zeros in on the institutions’ refusal to face up to Guston’s Klan paintings. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z He runs through a potted history from the Middle Passage, taking in sharecropping, segregation, lynchings, the Ku Klux Klan, and the murder of Martin Luther King. Meet Chicago's Interrupters? 2011-08-06T22:48:57Z Sandy, when Bill went to observe several Klan rallies in 1966, did you worry? In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Black writers, entertainers, and activists compared his views to those espoused by the Ku Klux Klan, the White Citizens’ Councils, and the Dixiecrats. “They’ve got to kill me. They can’t afford to let me live”: Inside the amazing friendship between Muhammad Ali and Malcolm X 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z “Let’s count the words: ‘Black man infiltrates Ku Klux Klan.’ For Spike Lee, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Period Piece Best Viewed Now 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z And they were holding on to eight-rock and who belonged in the Klan. Toni Morrison on Her Last Novel and the Voices of Her Characters 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Word around town was that a lot of those active in the search for Barbara belonged to the Klan, though Berenson admits that there’s no way to gauge the truth of this. When an Ancient Slander Against Jews Came to America 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Any depiction of Klan imagery is potentially volatile. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z In the early 1990s, a Ku Klux Klan leader ran surprisingly well for a Louisiana Senate seat. The stories to read to be the smartest person at the Thanksgiving table 2017-11-23T05:00:00Z One of the most violent Mississippi chapters of the Ku Klux Klan believed their members were chosen by God to conduct a holy war against the civil rights movement. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The cameras then reveal what’s inside: the distinctive pointed hoods of the Ku Klux Klan. Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z When Flip criticizes Ron for treating their undercover work as a crusade — “for me it’s a job,” he says — Ron brings up Flip’s Jewish background, and the virulent anti-Semitism that accompanies the Klan’s anti-black bigotry. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z During the campaign he referred to the Koch brothers, the wealthy industrialists known for their support of conservative causes, as “white supremacists” and compared them to the Ku Klux Klan. Harry Belafonte, 96, Dies; Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Carmichael’s target on Aug. 14 was Fort Deposit, a Klan bastion and a town that treated its black population with special cruelty. “Something happened to me in Selma”: 50 years ago, a young white seminary student risked everything for the call of civil rights 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z He and his wife were vilified, and the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross at their home, an incident that garnered national press coverage. The Black Sergeant and the White Judge Who Changed Civil Rights History 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Trump, who claims to get along famously with “the blacks,” is a man who’s won the support of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke. Donald Trump, sexist bully: Calling a female journalist “beautiful” at an interview isn’t a compliment 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z Sometimes big ellipses are cut from them, creating a subliminal suggestion both of masks and Ku Klux Klan hoods. In ‘Fly Away,’ Rashid Johnson Keeps the Focus on Race 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Burden’s girlfriend at the time kept urging him to leave the Klan and in 1997, he did. Pastor’s fight against KKK becomes movie that may aid battle 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z “They are better friends to my race for telling us what they are, and what they mean, than all the hypocrites put together,” Garvey said, of the Ku Klux Klan. Clarence Thomas’s Radical Vision of Race 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Her paternal grandmother, Wilde, gave Couric’s father a first edition of “The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan” inscribed: “This is such a valuable and beautiful book. Never destroy it.” In Katie Couric’s ‘Going There,’ There Includes Family Skeletons, Busting Into the Boys’ Club and More 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z “The First Purge,” directed by Gerard McMurray, who is black, is unabashedly exploitative, depicting mostly black and brown Staten Islanders being hunted down by trained militias of white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members. Fictional Police Brutality, Real Emotional Toll 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z The plot layers a romantic triangle and mentor-protégé relationships with politics, racism and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the Great Plains region. Seattle's Ivan Doig welcomes first stage adaptation 2012-02-09T23:20:06Z Along the way he becomes a target for the Klan himself. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Last year, Driver was nominated for his first Academy Award, for Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” in which he played a Jewish detective helping infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan. Adam Driver Has Put Everything He’s Got Onscreen 2020-01-01T05:00:00Z So ran the TV commentary, accompanied by shots of dancing fans intercut with images of the Ku Klux Klan and dire poverty in the American south. For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z “His confidence that my uncle and every other Black man who heard of the Klan’s coming ride would scurry under their houses to hide in chicken droppings was too humiliating to hear.” A Racist World, Described by Those Who Knew It 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z That meant finding a delicate balance between winning the trust of the Klan members and ensuring the show didn’t propagate views the network’s executives abhor. Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z During an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Pence condemned Clinton but, when pressed, declined to call any Trump supporter deplorable, even, say, former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke, who endorsed Trump. Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ speech shocked voters five years ago — but some feel it was prescient 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z In “Watchman,” a grown-up Scout is sickened by the bigotry of her father, who once attended a Klan meeting and holds deeply segregationist views. In Harper Lee’s Novels, a Loss of Innocence as Children and Again as Adults 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z A sandwich shop in Davis, Calif., has closed after the franchise owner made a statement likening the Black Lives Matter organization — an anti-racism advocacy group — to the Ku Klux Klan. California sandwich shop closed after owner likens Black Lives Matter to KKK, stresses he doesn’t support BLM 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z To complete the tableau, she pegged a clean white sheet to a clothesline, embroidering the initials of the Ku Klux Klan on the hem. Review | This 93-year-old artist has been taking on racism and sexism for decades — and is finally getting her due 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z The Klan and its allies attacked the Freedom Riders without fear of arrest in a riot of violence. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Satellites, after all, are indifferent to whether naming a highway after a Confederate leader in the early 1900s was a form of intimidation at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was spreading nationwide. When a county changed a Confederate highway name, some navigation apps were slow to change it 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z In it the first black cadet to become a police officer in Colorado Springs, in 1974, details his strange and dangerous undercover investigation of the Ku Klux Klan. Books at the Box Office 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z So around me — I'm talking about the barber shop, my living room, wherever we were, the family gatherings — they were always talking about black men being lynched in the South, about the Ku Klux Klan. Henry Louis Gates Jr. on why Jay-Z is wrong about racism dying off 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift sounds a bit like the Ku Klux Klan, and the two organisations did have something in common apart from eccentric spelling. The Art of Camping by Matthew de Abaitua - review 2011-07-06T09:00:01Z Ku Klux Klan in Denver and in that area. Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers: ‘You cannot fight racism with racism. You have to fight it with solidarity.’ 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z The fight started when Jones knocked Trump for not clearly distancing himself from David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan, which he called “a terrorist organization.” Blaming Democrats for the KKK: Van Jones fights back against Trump’s racist support, but he can’t win 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z The robe was used in the years after World War I, during the second rise of the Ku Klux Klan. The National Museum of African American History and Culture 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z And with that, the Ku Klux Klan make their first appearance en masse. "Boardwalk Empire" recap: Unhappy surprises 2010-10-11T05:01:00Z Her push for justice is at the heart of this four-part documentary series, which looks back at work by civil rights activists to dismantle the Klan’s power in the 20th century. What’s on TV This Week: ‘Hemingway’ and ‘The People v. the Klan’ 2021-04-05T04:00:00Z While Klan costumes became more homogeneous in the early 20th century, the white hood and robes did more than conceal the wearer's identity. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Now, he returns again to his family, focusing on one of his great-great-grandfathers and his association with the Ku Klux Klan. 13 Books to Watch For in August 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z His defenders, including some former members of the Ku Klux Klan, argue that the prosecutors made Mr. Killen a scapegoat. | 'Neshoba: The Price of Freedom': 1964 Murders of Civil Rights Workers in Mississippi 2010-08-12T23:08:00Z “The Black Panthers and the Klan got booked for the same spot on the same day?” Larry Wilmore demolishes the KKK & Bill Cosby in one fell swoop 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z But after a string of primary wins and a high-profile endorsement from Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, Trump has found himself firmly in the bullseye of comedy’s heavy hitters. Will John Oliver, Louis CK and SNL's attacks on Trump make a difference? 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z The Ku Klux Klan have terrible trouble fixing their hoods, which is a very funny scene, but also, in 1858, ahead of its time. All that bloody mayhem and we're still supposed to take Django Unchained seriously? 2013-01-25T17:00:01Z Five days into the trip, Lewis and other riders were attacked by Ku Klux Klan members at a whites-only waiting room in the Rock Hill, South Carolina, Greyhound terminal. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z Colbert told the story when he was chased out of a Klan rally. WATCH: Stephen Colbert invites his former “Daily Show” colleagues on “The Late Show” for a reunion 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In reaching a wider audience, Tyler expanded the Klan's hate beyond just black people and people of color to Catholics, Jews, immigrants and Communists. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z Before the exhibition opened, Ross and Sandra Christenberry discussed Hale County, photography of the South, and the value of putting forward the “Klan Tableau” and “Return to Origin” in today’s climate. In Hale County, Alabama, Two Visions of Place 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z He also created and rarely exhibited a “Klan room” tableau, using dozens of G.I. William Christenberry, artist of a crumbling, memory-haunted South, dies at 80 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z The nation's first movie blockbuster, "Birth of a Nation," was a celebration of the Ku Klux Klan, invoking the most odious racial stereotypes. The Tulsa Massacre, race and America: I finally understand my personal stake in writing this history 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z The second-era Ku Klux Klan, which at its peak in the 1920s could boast millions of adherents and real control over policy, had legions of followers in the middle and even aristocratic classes. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z Like the alt-right today, the Klan was never a political party, but it wielded sizable influence in politics. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Armed Ku Klux Klan members roam the streets. The Great Achievement of “Watchmen” Is in Showing How Black Americans Shape History 2019-12-13T05:00:00Z George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama, became an avid supporter of the Ku Klux Klan after his more moderate approach to racial politics cost him votes. In America, Is Power in the Hands of Too Many ‘Mediocre’ Men? 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z But in 1956, they granted a charter to Robert Williams to start a chapter so that they could own guns in North Carolina to prevent the Klan from killing people and preventing them from voting. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z In the trailer, a Klan wizard says, “I wanna be the next David Duke. I want to see him saying my name at presidential debates,” seemingly referring to Duke’s support of President-elect Donald Trump. First Trailer for 'Escaping the KKK' Reveals A&E's Controversial Klan Docuseries 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z But it also connects the Klan’s racism to what spurred last year’s Charlottesville rallies and even directly attacks the Trump administration for perpetuating such behavior. Spike Lee’s movie about a black cop infiltrating the KKK is a subtweet of Donald Trump 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z But then it leads to a shootout between these Klan members and Fogg's group who is allied with Reeves. "Around the World in 80 Days" co-creator on the twist ending, David Tennant and where to go next 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Conservatives objected to his inclusion of Ku Klux Klan figures in another mural, this one on the history of Indiana done for the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair. ‘Thomas Hart Benton,’ by Justin Wolff 2012-06-29T22:17:16Z He had begun his career as a nonracist populist who opposed the Ku Klux Klan, and he would end it as a penitent integrationist. Shirley Chisholm, the Democrats’ forgotten hero 2012-09-09T19:00:00Z At a Tea Party event, he turns up to give attendees a goodie bag of Ku Klux Klan hoods, Confederate flags and White Power placards that they’d “forgotten”. Comedian Eric Andre: 'We don't tell guests a thing ...' 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z His father, Don Black, was a former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and the creator of Stormfront, one of the most popular white-nationalist Web sites in the United States. The Plight of the Political Convert 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z And on a day when the political news was all about the Ku Klux Klan, he identified the particular variety of liberal-minded bigotry — the “sorority racism” — that afflicts the movie industry. Let’s Talk About the Oscars: An Evening of Squirming 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z He'll face off against the police, Italian mobsters and the Ku Klux Klan along the way. At E3, game makers introduce more diverse heroes 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z Along the way we get glimpses of the 20th-century hypocrisies that allowed South African apartheid murders, racist wars, American lynchings and other Ku Klux Klan scare tactics. ‘Lee Daniels’ The Butler’: One man’s walk through racial history 2013-08-15T19:23:10Z Jeffrey Lord argued on national television this week that the Klan is an invention of “the left.” It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z A contemporary observer remembered that Massena was awash in fliers advertising Klan meetings. When an Ancient Slander Against Jews Came to America 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z It turns out the teacher was a KKK supporter who was shot during a Klan attempt to blow up the home of a Jewish activist. After “The Jacksonian,” Beth Henley recharges with slapstick “Laugh” 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z Griffith’s explicitly racist account of the birth of the Klan and the evils of Reconstruction. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z As you talked about, Spike Lee does a really excellent job showing the lineage of Donald Trump's rise to the Ku Klux Klan, especially the more politically motivated organization that you infiltrated. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z On the very first episode of this series in 2016, the comedian and host W. Kamau Bell sat down to talk with members of the Ku Klux Klan. What’s on TV Sunday: ‘The Last Dance’ and ‘United Shades of America’ 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z It flourished in the 1920s and ’30s, a mere half-century after the abolition of slavery, amid a nationwide revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The dazzling Harlem Renaissance that flowered nearly a century ago celebrated in Ohio 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z In 2009, former Klan supporter Elwin Wilson admitted he was the man who had beaten Lewis, and apologized in person to the Congressman. 11 courageous facts about the Freedom Riders 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z The Klan burned a cross in the family’s driveway. ‘Memorial Drive’ Powerfully Recalls a Southern Childhood and a Mother’s Murder 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z In 1946, she appeared on Broadway with Davis, who also became a director and playwright, in "Jeb," about a black soldier back from World War Two who confronts the white supremacist Ku Klux Klan. Stage, screen actress Ruby Dee dies at 91: family 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Lee’s new film, BlacKkKlansman, is adapted from the memoir of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer who infiltrated a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s by using a white double. 'A blemish on America': Spike Lee denounces Trump for Charlottesville response 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z The flag was adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and was frequently brandished by counter-protesters at civil rights marches. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Others say Ebola is the Ku Klux Klan of paper cuts. Ebola: What It Is 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z Barnum, and he sends her to the clairvoyant Madame Singleton, whose Ouija board reveals that the Ku Klux Klan is responsible. Review | Norman Lock’s ‘American Follies’ mines America’s flawed past for dazzling fiction 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Duke eventually came to Colorado Springs personally to initiate Stallworth into the Klan. Spike Lee: ‘I get no joy from being right. I wanted progress’ 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Nazi" and the friend has a photograph to prove it: "One of her schmoozing with Klan members at a hate rally in Mississipi. Guardian book club: Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 2010-09-20T10:37:00Z Audience Award for a dramatic film went to “Burden,” about a South Carolina man, played by Garrett Hedlund, who left the Ku Klux Klan with the help of a black reverend played by Forest Whitaker. Women Dominate Sundance’s Winners List 2018-01-28T05:00:00Z On “Respect Yourself,” the lyrics show their support of King, and the looming violence of the Ku Klux Klan: She’s still taking us there: Mavis Staples soars again in late career 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z Lee writes the Klan as a collection of buffoons who nearly salivate while beholding their blackface scripture, D. W. Griffith’s “Birth of a Nation.” The Twisted Power of White Voice in “Sorry to Bother You” and “BlacKkKlansman” 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Afterward, he tried to hold this coalition together as a political force in the face of Ku Klux Klan terror. Review: Matthew McConaughey Rebels Against Rebels in ‘Free State of Jones’ 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z It’s a chilling introduction to “Generation KKK,” an eight-part documentary series, beginning Jan. 10 on A&E, that burrows in with high-ranking Klan members and their families. Inside the Ku Klux Klan, With an A&E Documentary Series 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z South in the 1960s, and the studio’s Ku Klux Klan comedy-drama “BlacKkKlansman” from director Spike Lee are also serious contenders for the best picture statuette. Topsy-turvy season gives Oscars a best picture cliffhanger 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Guston, a child of Jewish immigrants who had fled pogroms, had been exposed to Klan violence as a young man in Los Angeles. Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z Beneath the stately facade of this prosperous capital city is a savage narrative of Jim Crow and Ku Klux Klan violence, right through the civil rights movement. In Charleston, Coming to Terms With the Past 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z Carlson said in an Aug. 2018 show that most people live their entire lives without even meeting a Klan member or Nazi. Late-night comedian Samantha Bee blasts Fox News host Tucker Carlson as a white supremacist 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Guston’s Klan paintings indeed require interpretation, education and public outreach — but that is precisely the job of museums at all times. The Philip Guston Show Should Be Reinstated 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z “The danger of showing the complete absurdity of the Klan is that it undermines just how pervading their ideas were and how influential and destructive they became in these historical moments,” he said. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z At least two dozen works from that period feature the hoods, which clearly refer to the Klan. Delayed Philip Guston Show Opens, With a Note From a Trauma Specialist 2022-05-01T04:00:00Z “You can’t go from being the Ku Klux Klan to being the KKK and think that we don’t know that you’re still racist,” Lady A says. Seattle’s Lady A confronts white privilege in battle with country stars and beyond 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z J just a horrid man, K means you love the Klan, L for the lies you always tell. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Martin, for example, had been the director of a gay support hotline in Phoenix in the 1980s, when its offices were firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan. ‘I wanted to avenge them’: From mug shots to works of art, this exhibit explores Northwest culture through the lens of gay artists 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z While Ron reaches out to the Klan over the telephone — “whitening” his voice in the manner of countless stand-up comedians — he can’t very well show up at meetings. Review: In ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ Spike Lee Journeys Into White America’s Heart of Darkness 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Hemmed in during their youth by racial and sexual taboos, and Confederate and Klan ghosts, the Lumpkins kept their secrets close and turned out to the world. The Daughters of the Confederacy Who Turned Their Heritage to Political Ends 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z He also criticized a Fox website as "an unholy mashup of the Drudge Report, the Huffington Post and a Klan meeting." Gawker's 'Fox Mole' has a book deal 2012-05-04T16:46:08Z "Well, was he a member of the Ku Klux Klan? Or the White Citizens Council? That's something that I would also want to know," Davis asks in response. Angela Davis shows us why "Finding Your Roots" complicates and strengthens the American story 2023-02-26T05:00:00Z “Agent Orange refused to repudiate the Klan, the alt-right and the Nazis,” he told Hollywood Reporter. In a film festival far, far away, Cannes puts art over commerce 2018-05-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Albion said she was puzzled by the complaint that the Klan artifacts lacked context. Lincoln Library Cancels Exhibition Over Racial Sensitivity Concerns 2020-08-05T04:00:00Z It’s a lot easier to confront subjects like white supremacy or the Klan as evil villains. How to display a KKK painting? Very carefully 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Among other things, “Birth” became a recruitment tool for the Ku Klux Klan. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z “We were never told as students that this film gave a rebirth to the Klan; the K.K.K. had been dormant.” Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “BlacKkKlansman” deals with a Ku Klux Klan plot and the black power movement in the 1970s. If You Think the Oscars Have Gotten More Political, Here’s Why You’re Right 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z About the time he was accidentally booked to play a Ku Klux Klan rally in Mississippi, somehow winning over the 30,000 crowd and playing three encores. Solomon Burke: gone but never forgotten 2010-10-11T12:58:00Z “There are people in the United States of America who refuse to acknowledge that entities like the Klan exist,” he said. When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Born in Birmingham, Ala., in 1955, Marshall was 8 when four local children were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in the notorious 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. Kerry James Marshall's paintings insist on black self-representation 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z For Atticus — presented throughout as the voice of reason, of fairness and justice — to dismiss the Klan as little more than a political group suggests how deep the divisions of race extend. Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z “BlacKkKlansman,” the real-life tale of a black police officer’s infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan, is set in the 1970s, but according to Spike Lee, the racism it depicts persists today. For Spike Lee, ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Is a Period Piece Best Viewed Now 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z The backdrop, created by Glenn Ligon, is an image from a Ku Klux Klan rally. Abraham.In.Motion’s choreography is ambitious, yes, but rightly so She described “The Bachelor” fandom as divided into the regular “Bachelor Nation” and then the “Bachelor Klan,” which “is hateful, racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic.” Analysis | Secrets from the ‘Bachelor’ franchise are spilling out, and they could change the show’s future 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z While most people recognize the infamous hood and white robes of the 1920s Klan, early Klan costumes were homemade, individualized and much more bizarre. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Instead, starting Tuesday, Jan. 10, we’ll get a weekly look inside the lives of several families headed by members of the Ku Klux Klan called “Generation KKK.” This is not normal: A&E announces a new series, “Generation KKK” 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z The sporty hood is like the humble cowl worn by a penitent monk crossed with the inescapable echo of the modern hoods worn by the craven Ku Klux Klan. Heinous history as potent muse in Underground Museum's 'Non-fiction' 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z The film depicts the Bureau's exploits against the Klan, organized crime, and even the occasional Nazi. Scarecrow Video recommendations for 'J. Edgar' 2011-11-10T14:23:09Z So Beulah Mae filed a more than $10 million civil suit against the United Klans of America, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and several other individual groups and members. 10 facts about Beulah Mae Donald, the woman who took down the KKK 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most documented period of white women's clear-cut involvement in the Klan and its violence against black people was in its second wave during the 1920s. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The Democratic party, which has been, we've been their side chick for the last 55 years for about 100 years before that we were the most oppressive regime, and actually spawned members of the Klan. Killer Mike on America: "We've failed, but we can change it" 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z What made the Klan such an ally in the war on alcohol? Lisa McGirr Discusses ‘The War on Alcohol’ and the Legacy of Prohibition 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z The series’s second two hours — which cover subjects like the Jim Crow system, the Ku Klux Klan, W.E.B. Review: Essential History in ‘Reconstruction’ on PBS 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z Black motorists couldn’t shield their children from racist signs and announcements about the Ku Klux Klan controlling the territory they needed to pass. Review: ‘Driving While Black’ opens road to civil rights 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z “Klansville U.S.A.” is a documentary about the Ku Klux Klan, but it’s short on images of terrorists on horseback and bodies hanging from trees. ‘Klansville U.S.A.’ Explores the Ku Klux Klan of the ’60s 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Compare it to, say, the recent furor over four museums canceling a retrospective of the work of Philip Guston, worried that his depictions of the Ku Klux Klan lacked sufficient framing. The First Photos of Enslaved People Raise Many Questions About the Ethics of Viewing 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z “BlacKkKlansman,” based on the true story of an African-American police detective in the 1970s who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, arrives in movie theaters on Friday. Spike Lee hopes Trump watches KKK film 'BlacKkKlansman' 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Cancellation stamps with Ku Klux Klan symbols used in a post office in Union Mills, Pa., in 1870. African American history, as seen through letters and stamps 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z In “Go Set a Watchman,” he has turned a treacherous corner, aligning with the citizen’s council and the Ku Klux Klan. Review: Harper Lee's 'Go Set a Watchman' reveals a darker side of Maycomb 2015-07-11T04:00:00Z Throughout these same pages are portraits of anonymous soldiers, veterans, draft dodgers, Afghan guerillas, Klan members, New York firefighters, civil rights marchers, schoolchildren and Somali refugees. Books 2010-03-01T00:00:00Z “That was the worst part. How seductive he was, how smart he was to put a new face on the Klan, how terrible that’s been for our country.” Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Klan’s first grand wizard, which reads, “Defender of Selma, Wizard of the Saddle, Untutored Genius, The First with the Most . . . One of the South’s finest heroes.” The battle for Alabama’s soul 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z He cultivates cordial relationships with prominent racists — Ku Klux Klan leaders, front men for neo-Nazi groups and so on — and through a form of friendly persuasion, tries to steer them from their bigotry. Review: ‘Accidental Courtesy’ Is Gentle Persuasion for Bigots 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z “And then suddenly, I am acting in a movie and am putting on Klan paraphernalia.” Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z One of them thought they might be the Ku Klux Klan. Pierrot troupes could play role in revitalising seaside resorts 2010-07-14T15:16:00Z Those powers were sorely needed to fight the Klan and what Chernow appropriately calls “the worst outbreak of domestic terrorism in American history.” President Clinton Looks Back at President Grant 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z His most famous work there is the 16th Street Baptist Church, the triple-domed sanctuary where a Ku Klux Klan bombing killed four girls in 1963. Antiques: Works by Haviland Ceramics and Robert R. Taylor 2012-01-12T21:49:49Z Federal troops did little to stop lynchings and murders on a smaller scale, by the Ku Klux Klan, for example. ‘A Massacre in Memphis’: a day of shame in the River City 2014-01-08T21:54:41Z The local Ku Klux Klan held a protest. From Dukes of Hazzard to Kanye West: the curse of the Confederate flag 2020-07-27T04:00:00Z Spike Lee’s movie — about a black police officer, Ron Stallworth, who infiltrates his local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the 1970s — is adapted from Stallworth’s memoir. A Literary Guide to the Oscars 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z Over the years, Southern Baptist deacons and pastors moved in and out of Ku Klux Klan leadership positions. Baptists bank on fire and brimstone 2012-07-11T13:55:00Z George Clooney and co stumble into a Klan lynching that’s choreographed like a Busby Berkeley number in O Brother Where Art Thou? From Birth of a Nation to BlacKkKlansman: Hollywood’s complex relationship with the KKK 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Well, when Jordan Peele called me up and gave me the pitch “Black man infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan,” I was intrigued, because with the absurdity of that premise comes humor. Spike Lee Reacts to His First Best-Director Nomination 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Sample: “The Tea Party is the Klan without sheets.” Music Review: Justin Vivian Bond Sings Melanie at 54 Below 2012-12-24T21:26:41Z King, Chuck Berry and Percy Sledge, Davis is also the author of, "Klan-Destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan," the story of his quixotic journey into the heart of the KKK. New Director for Centrum's Acoustic Blues Festival 2011-10-12T00:31:04Z In 21st-century movies, it has been far more common to lampoon the Klan, as in “Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?” Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In many small towns, belonging to the Klan was a means of career advancement for political strivers — among them Hugo Black and, apparently, Harry Truman. The Ku Klux Klan’s Surprising History 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z "Never heard of any Catholics in Maycomb either," Atticus tells Jem, "you're confusing that with something else. Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan, but it was a political organization more than anything." Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird': It lingers, but not in the way he expected 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z That’s what happens here when Frank, riding on strong momentum in the presidential primaries, gets stopped in his tracks by a controversy about his connections to the Ku Klux Klan. ‘House of Cards’ Season 4, Episode 3: The Trump-Underwood Connection 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Or at least, the kind of guy who attended a Klan meeting and complains about how black people are taking over. The Atticus Finch of your childhood is’t ruined: Read Harper Lee’s “Go Set a Watchman” for the early draft that it is 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z I kind of think once a candidate is endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan, it’s obvious we are living in Crazy Time. Not voting for Hillary? You’re dead to me 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z The context of American racial violence will be represented in displays of slave shackles and a bloodstained Ku Klux Klan robe. A Panorama of Design 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z The president of the United States Donald Trump, has described neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and other right-wing extremists and domestic terrorists as "very fine people". The Jewish family on Hitler’s street: “We didn’t know he was going to turn the world upside... 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Skeptics reject sincerity because they worry blind belief can lead to such evils as the Ku Klux Klan and Nazism. David Foster Wallace was right: Irony is ruining our culture 2014-04-13T19:30:00Z She stepped into the world of white supremacists, photographing members of the Ku Klux Klan. Mary Ellen Mark, photographer of outcasts and hidden beauty, dies at 75 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z Topher Grace, who plays 1970s Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, said the cast and crew were struck by the movie’s contemporary relevance while filming. Spike Lee hopes Trump watches KKK film 'BlacKkKlansman' 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z In “Stars in My Crown,” from 1950, he made one of Hollywood’s most daring movies about racial segregation and discrimination, with a direct and angry look at Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan. Movie of the Week: “Wichita” 2014-11-12T05:00:00Z If Donald Trump is telling the truth, he only recently learned that David Duke, former grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, is an avowed segregationist. It’s not enough to disavow the Klan: Racists and Republicans have years of experience disavowing Klan, but supporting racist politics 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z Joe dolls outfitted in the white robes of the Ku Klux Klan, with an assortment of disturbing images of violence, including coffins and guns. William Christenberry, artist of a crumbling, memory-haunted South, dies at 80 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “The town I was from” — Mishawaka, Ind. — “had a Klan presence, and there were rallies and fights every summer in South Bend,” Mr. Driver said. Spike Lee Takes on the Klan 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z “Not just pictures of the Klan, but the end result of their behavior, the black folks being lynched.” When the Painting Is Provocative but the Museum Is Cautious 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z “I left my home, my customs, my country,” Mr. Cheto raps, before comparing Mr. Trump to a member of the Ku Klux Klan. This Season’s Breakout Star: The Border 2015-12-23T05:00:00Z Board of Education, White Citizens’ Councils were tonier alternatives to the Klan. Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set a Watchman’ 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z Brady, a Ku Klux Klan member who was involved in the Greenwood massacre. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z His new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” about an African-American detective who infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan, continues that tradition with one simple yet effective technique highlighting faces in a crowd. How Spike Lee Created Three Signature Visual Shots 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z In 2007, in an advertisement, the organization compared the American Kennel Club to the Ku Klux Klan. A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z He was also a political opportunist who had won the Democratic gubernatorial primary in 1958 with the support of the Ku Klux Klan. Television Review: Voices From the Buses on the Road to Civil Rights 2011-05-15T22:04:53Z As incompetent and ridiculous as the Klan and Duke are in BlacKkKlansman, the ideas they espouse are now – at least in part – influencing the leader of the free world and his inner circle. Why BlacKkKlansman should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z This is ludicrous because the so-called security forces are the Ku Klux Klan to most black Americans,” Morrissey said. Morrissey takes yet another bizarre swipe at Obama’s race: “He doesn’t look overly African black” 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z Some contemporary neo-Nazi and racist groups incorporate Norse symbolism and mythology, while others, following the Klan, use Christianity to frame their racist ideology as righteous or divine. Strange costumes of Capitol rioters echo the early days of the KKK — before the white sheets 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z Ellis was the Exalted Cyclops of the Durham, N.C., klavern of the United Klans of America. ‘The Best of Enemies’ Review: A Klansman and a Civil Rights Activist Become Friends 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Williams and Long contextualize the challenges Robinson faced throughout his life by including historical news clippings and boxed commentary about the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration and Jim Crow laws. Sports Stories That Transcend Sport 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The book mentions dangers, such as the Ku Klux Klan, a group whose members masked themselves in white hoods and terrorized African Americans. Rita Williams-Garcia wraps up Gaither sisters’ tale in ‘Gone Crazy in Alabama’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z In the film, it's so intense seeing all the parallels between what David Duke was saying, what the Klan was doing and Trump, what he's saying today, and seeing the Charlottesville footage. “BlacKkKlansman” author Ron Stallworth: Donald Trump accomplished David Duke’s goal 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z Before launching Stormfront in 1996, Don Black led the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and went to prison for plotting to overthrow the Caribbean island of Dominica in order to establish a white ethno-state there. Renouncing Hate: What Happens When a White Nationalist Repents 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He finished making the film last year, a hundred years after the release of D. W. Griffith’s silent film “The Birth of a Nation,” a tribute to the Ku Klux Klan. The Rebirth of a Nation 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z Departing from Chesnutt, Hansberry begins her play with “an old and demented Negro beggar woman” emerging from the swamp, who, we later learn, was driven to insanity after the Ku Klux Klan murdered her husband. Unseen Script Offers New Evidence of a Radical Lorraine Hansberry 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Poitier refused to film below the Mason-Dixon line, in southern Pennsylvania, since he and Harry Belafonte had recently been harassed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. How we made In the Heat of the Night 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z |
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