...anonymously accused of being a communist, and, as a result of just the accusation and no proof, they lost their jobs. The Ku Klux Klan hid behind anonymity to terrorize and even execute people during the civil rights era. If left unchallenged, this...
...District in Utah, for example, Costello's group is hosting tolerance workshops this week after a student wore a Ku Klux Klan-style hood to a pep rally in March. She also pointed to a case in Louisiana in Oct. 23, 2009, in which several...
NEW YORK -- The city succeeded in unmasking the Ku Klux Klan for a weekend rally when a federal appeals court ruled that it could refuse to permit the event if participants insisted on wearing...
...one group of locals struck a chord so deep within Mildred "Millie" Jeffrey that she never forgot how she felt. The Ku Klux Klan had a strong following in the Midwest in those days. "I remember the parades," Jeffrey said Monday. "They had...
...000 cases. --In an infamous 1963 bombing of a Birmingham, Ala., church that killed four black girls, a former Ku Klux Klan member was convicted last week in part based on tape-recorded admissions that the FBI had made of the defendant...
...modern-day prejudice in the real world. Eventually, the discussion summons a parallel between the seepage of the Ku Klux Klan into the fabric of 20th century America and the wizard world fighting the dark arts whose members have infiltrated that...
...Coalition rightfully filed a federal complaint alleging violations of equal protection and free speech rights. The Ku Klux Klan filed a similar suit in 1997 and won the right to adopt a stretch of Missouri highway. Missouri and 28 other states...
ST. PAUL -- In Minnesota, Ku Klux Klan members can rally, but they can't hide. A rarely used state law prohibits people from wearing masks in public to conceal their...
INVER GROVE HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) -- A second man accused of assaulting a mixed-race, 4-year-old boy after a Ku Klux Klan rally turned himself in Wednesday. Authorities said Jarod Sparks, 25, surrendered to Inver Grove Heights police around 11 a.m.
...about using anthrax to strike at the U.S. government. But experts who monitor extremists doubt that neo-Nazi, Ku Klux Klan or domestic militia organizations have the scientific know-how or the financial means to carry out the anthrax-by-mail...
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