Ku Klux Kulture: America and the Klan in the 1920s By Felix Harcourt University of Chicago Press, 272 Pages, $45 The “alt-right” is alarming, partly because it is youthful. American conservatism often presents itself stodgily: middle-aged men wearing bow ties or affecting English accents; clean-shaven pastors (also men) delivering clean, safe sermons; stiff, suited military…
A man was caught on camera posting recruitment fliers for the Klu Klux Klan in downtown Lafayette, Indiana, the Journal & Courier reported. Footage from a security camera shows him walking through freezing rain on the night of January 12 to drop the fliers on the dooresteps of businesses on Main Street. The man made…
Residents of Leesburg, Virginia, discovered fliers purporting to be distributed by the racist terror group the Ku Klux Klan over the weekend. According to local news channel WTOP, the fliers denigrated Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birthday is celebrated nationwide on Monday. “The timing of it we think was pre-emptively planned by this individual…
Edgar Ray Killen, the preacher and Ku Klux Klansman convicted and sent to prison more than 40 years after he plotted the 1964 slayings of three civil rights activists in the “Mississippi Burning” case, died on Thursday night at the age of 92, Mississippi correction officials said. Killen, who would have turned 93 on Jan….
(JTA) — Several residents in a Virginia town received bags with candy and materials promoting the Ku Klux Klan. The plastic bags left outside homes in downtown Leesburg contained a cartoon that warned of “white extinction” and literature with hateful messages about Jews, African-Americans and liberals, WTOP reported. Police said the materials seemed to be…
The lawyer who argued the landmark Supreme Court case that made gay marriage legal in the U.S. is going after the organizers of Charlottesville’s “Unite the Right” rally. In a Washington Post podcast, Robert Kaplan explained the origins and nature of her court case against 26 organizers of the August rally, which led to the…
Business leaders, elected officials and residents in Charlottesville, Virginia, are going to court to try to prevent a repeat of the violence at a white nationalist rally that ripped through town this summer. Mike Signer, the Jewish mayor of Charlottesville, said he supported the legal campaign to prevent future white nationalist violence — decrying what…
Several neighborhoods in Jacksonville, Florida were littered with flyers containing messages from the Ku Klux Klan over the past few days — including anti-black and anti-Semitic messages. One of the flyers contains threats against African-Americans who are caught “making eyes” at white women, NBC reported. The flyer also says that “the only ‘good Jew’ is…
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