Klux

Remarkably, the heyday of Jews in films took place during the 1920s, which was also the heyday of American anti-Semitism, when more than four million people joined the Ku Klux Klan, books and newspapers warning of “the international Jew” sold by the millions, and immigration was cut off from eastern Europe.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

The founding fathers, abolitionists, great capitalists, socialist revolutionaries, suffragists, the Ku Klux Klan, New Dealers, civil rights activists, and conservative leaders all held or sought power, which meant they also sought social control and therefore worked to limit the personal liberties of their constituents.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Grant signed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which empowered federal troops to arrest Klansmen and gave jurisdiction in such cases to federal courts, where juries were often predominantly black.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

He said they felt safer when FBI agents were around because, in some of those mean counties in the Deep South, the Ku Klux Klan behaved itself when federal agents were in the vicinity.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

During one of the sock hops, eighty members of the local Ku Klux Klan surrounded the building and threatened to do bodily harm to Stewart for his alleged attempts to “dance with white girls.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

He said they felt safer when FBI agents were around because, in some of those mean counties in the Deep South, the Ku Klux Klan behaved itself when federal agents were in the vicinity.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

On October 16, 1915, exactly two months after the Frank lynching, members of the vigilante group helped to reestablish a new Ku Klux Klan, an organization dedicated to the proposition that “every influence that seeks to disrupt the home must itself be destroyed.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

He said they felt safer when FBI agents were around because, in some of those mean counties in the Deep South, the Ku Klux Klan behaved itself when federal agents were in the vicinity.

The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

Clothes serve as declarations of unity (team jerseys help Little Leaguers bond); or can be a form of strident intimidation (Klu Klux Klan hoods); or admissions of powerlessness (prison jumpsuits).

The burqa in France: Removing the veil without facing society's shortcomings Robin Givhan 2010

There is not much difference between the racist and discriminatory rhetoric the Ku Klux Klan spews and that of anti-immigrant political demagogues and commentators.

Carlos Roa: What Part of Human Being Don't You Understand? Carlos Roa 2010