It was said that he carried a Ku Klux Klan card in his wallet.
Years later, juries convicted three Ku Klux Klansmen and one suspected accomplice died without ever having been charged.
In the same period violence from groups like the Ku Klux Klan and anti-abortion extremists have declined, Lewis said.
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...
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.
Thirty-eight years after an infamous church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four black girls, Bobby Frank Cherry, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was finally found guilty of their murder.
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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Moseley-Braun's term was marked by controversy, including trips to Nigeria to visit the late dictator Sani Abacha, campaign finance questions and a blowup in which she compared columnist George Will to a Ku Klux Klansman.
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.
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.
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