It was said that he carried a Ku Klux Klan card in his wallet.
The oddity is that the mid-west has relatively few blacks, and is therefore not the Klan's natural turf.
Chester Quarles, a professor at the University of Mississippi, says the Klan has transformed itself in recent years.
When he was summoned to their homes to discuss Klan strategy, he was told to use the back door.
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In the same period violence from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and anti-abortion extremists have declined, Lewis said.
His progress up the ladder of the Klan was an attempt to climb out of the social class he had been born into.
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Life after leaving the Klan was never easy for CP, but he told me that he believed he had done the right thing.
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Brazil has never had anything like the Ku Klux Klan, or the ban on interracial marriage imposed in 17 American states until 1967.
It quickly expanded to take on the Ku Klux Klan, moonshiners and others "perpetrating fraud against the government, " according to the Secret Service website www.secretservice.gov.
Without forgetting the horrific crimes committed by the Ku Klux Klan...
If even the Wall Street Journal feels secure Kibitzing about the Kardashians, Kim and her Klever Klan have transitioned from mere reality stars to major media.
The students were under 18 and had no prior records, and no group such as a Ku Klux Klan was found to be behind their actions.
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The three white teens were under 18, with no prior records, and no group such as a Ku Klux Klan was found to be behind their actions.
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Hugo Black grew up in Alabama, attended his state university's law school, and used membership in the Ku Klux Klan as a means to a swift political rise.
The Southern Poverty Law Centre in Montgomery, Alabama, which tracks the Klan, estimates that it has about 5, 000 members, down by about half in the past 15 years.
Mr Feldman argues that for Black, who became one of the strongest proponents of ending segregation, the decision served as a means of freeing his legacy from Klan baggage.
Wilson, a former Ku Klux Klan member who apologized for his racist past and specifically for beating a black man who went on to become a U.S. congressman, has died.
Mohammed Narwaz, of Caerau, near Maesteg, who suffered intimidation at the hands of former Ku Klux Klan leader Alan Beshella, now has panic buttons installed in every room in his home.
After all, who would have thought that Clayborn Paul (CP) Ellis, the Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, would turn out to be one of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Mr Connerly's detractors have accused him of everything from McCarthyism to self-hatred to being a Ku Klux Klan sympathiser, but he seems untainted by the paranoid self-righteousness that is so common on the American right.
You've been with us before, and you've talked both about your work in this area and the fact that you have some personal familiarity with hate groups because you grew up in a town where the Klan was active.
Years ago while interning at the Houston Defender, I remember writing an editorial about a Texas ACLU lawyer and member of the NAACP defending a leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who was being ordered to turn over membership rolls of the group.
"Over the years since it was formed in December 1865, the Klan has typically seen itself as a Christian organization, although in modern times Klan groups are motivated by a variety of theological and political ideologies, " the law center's website says.
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