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Ku Klux Klan
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  • In those days, before my mother told me her Kweilin story, I imagined Joy Luck was a shameful Chinese custom, like the secret gathering of the Ku Klux Klan or the tom-tom dances of TV Indians preparing for war.†  (source)
  • That was the Ku Klux Klan riding through.†  (source)
  • Forerunners of the Ku Klux Klan.†  (source)
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  • Those sheets eventually gave rise to the white hooded cloaks of the Ku Klux Klan.†  (source)
  • He saw Ku Klux Klan hoods, skeletons, harlequins in garish colors, painted faces.†  (source)
  • HOW IS THE KU KLUX KLAN LIKE A GROUP OF REAL-ESTATE AGENTS?†  (source)
  • The one-man British Ku Klux Klan?†  (source)
  • A handyman who was a regular at the Mountaineer even sent Liz flowers, and later, sought to impress her by showing off a prized family heirloom: a robe and hood once worn by his grandfather, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan.†  (source)
  • (At her door) Mama, if there are two things we, as a people, have got to overcome, one is the Ku Klux Klan—and the other is Mrs. Johnson†  (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)
  • 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.†  (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)
  • "Did you ever hear of the Ku Klux Klan?" he asked me softly.†  (source)
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