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Ku Klux Klan
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  • HOW IS THE KU KLUX KLAN LIKE A GROUP OF REAL-ESTATE AGENTS?†   (source)
  • The one-man British Ku Klux Klan?†   (source)
  • Connor, a sixty-five-year-old former member of the Ku Klux Klan, has enjoyed this battle tremendously and takes great delight in the thought of keeping blacks "in their place."†   (source)
  • A.labama—a former Presidential candidate (in 1912), a former Democratic floor leader in both the House and the Senate, author of the famous tariff bill which bore his name, and a leading Presidential possibility—urged that he say nothing to offend the Ku Klux Klan—then a rising power, particularly in Southern politics.†   (source)
  • Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan.†   (source)
  • Not just the Ku Klux Klan but the regular white folks in town would've killed him.†   (source)
  • In 1958, with the backing of the Ku Klux Klan, he defeated George Wallace for governor.†   (source)
  • As institutions go, the Ku Klux Klan has had a markedly up-and-down history.†   (source)
  • But if the Ku Klux Klan of the 1940s wasn't uniformly violent, what was it?†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan cloaked themselves in the symbols of the Confederate South to intimidate and victimize thousands of black people.†   (source)
  • But they also said Lacks Town was only about twelve miles from the local Lynch Tree, and that the Ku Klux Klan held meetings on a school baseball field less than ten miles from Clover's Main Street until well into the 1980s.†   (source)
  • It was a typical small southern town, conservative and white, and not too far removed in temperament from the next town over, Stone Mountain, a longtime headquarters of sorts for the Ku Klux Klan and the site of cross burnings as recently as the late 1980s.†   (source)
  • The children attending church this Sunday morning cannot possibly know that four members of the Ku Klux Klan have planted a box of dynamite near the basement.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, its members took pride in publicly disparaging anybody who wasn't a conservative white Christian.†   (source)
  • Bear in mind that these figures represent not only lynchings attributed to the Ku Klux Klan but the total number of reported lynchings.†   (source)
  • To be sure, there are differences between exposing the Ku Klux Klan and exposing insurance companies' high premiums.†   (source)
  • The Ku Klux Klan lay largely dormant until 1915, when D. W. Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation (originally titled The Clansman) helped spark its rebirth.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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?†   (source)
  • The film quoted a line from A History of the American People, written by a renowned historian: At last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country.†   (source)
  • Yes, the Klan was a secret society, reveling in passwords and cloak-and-dagger ploys, but its real power lay in the very public fear that it fostered, exemplified by the open secret that the Ku Klux Klan and the law-enforcement establishment were brothers in arms.†   (source)
  • Just as a Major League shortstop probably played Little League and just as a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan probably started out as a lowly spear-carrier, a drug lord typically began by selling drugs on a street corner.†   (source)
  • The secand is the absence of a correlation between lynchings and Klan membership: there were actually more lynchings of blacks between 1900 and 1909, when the Klan was dormant, than during the 1920s, when the Klan had millions of members—which suggests that the Ku Klux Klan carried out far fewer lynchings than is generally thought.†   (source)
  • They are so upset"—Pitty dropped her voice mysteriously—"about the Ku Klux Klan.†   (source)
  • It gripped him: that cross was not the cross of Christ, but the cross of the Ku Klux Klan.†   (source)
  • "Did you ever hear of the Ku Klux Klan?" he asked me softly.†   (source)
  • Well, the paper you're selling preaches the Ku Klux Klan doctrines," he said.†   (source)
  • Let others go to jail for speaking their minds and get themselves hanged for being in the Ku Klux Klan.†   (source)
  • It was the large number of outrages on women and the ever-present fear for the safety of their wives and daughters that drove Southern men to cold and trembling fury and caused the Ku Klux Klan to spring up overnight.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • "Here it is," said he presently: " 'Ku Klux Klan.†   (source)
  • "Have you never—" said Sherlock Holmes, bending forward and sinking his voice—"have you never heard of the Ku Klux Klan?"†   (source)
  • It was while my home was at Malden that what was known as the "Ku Klux Klan" was in the height of its activity.†   (source)
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