Part of K.K.K

Usage examples of klux.

Citizens Council in, 57, 98-99 desegregation in, 28, 62 Ku Klux Klan in, 80, 85,92 Mississippi supporters from, 92, 98-99, 186,187,193, 261 Lucy, Autherine, 11, 28,48 lynchings, 3, 6, 7, 192 McArdleeaWillard, 158 MacArthur, Douglas, 101 McCauley, John, 140,151 McClellan, George B.

But a white backlash erupted in 1875, and Democratic-party activists linked up with remnants of the Ku Klux Klan to unleash a wave of riots and terror against blacks and their Republican allies.

When the bus escaped to Birmingham and pulled into the terminal, a frenzied mob of Ku Klux Klansmen ambushed and beat the Freedom Riders with lead pipes, injuring reporters and bystanders as well.

Unlike the Ku Klux Klan, which drew support from the poorest whites, the Citizens Council opposed violence and attracted top community leaders from the ranks of the middle and upper classes-doctors, lawyers, and businessmen recruited through the Rotary and Lions and Kiwanis Clubs.

Robert Shelton was a crew-cut, slightly built, almost skeletal thirty-three-year-old former rubber-plant worker and Goodrich tire salesman who now ruled the most powerful Ku Klux Klan faction in the country, the United Klans of America.

And there was one group of Americans who could be counted on to stand up for what was right: the Ku Klux Klan.

Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton and his Ku Klux Klan brass disappeared into the eastern horizon.

What Gotten was witnessing, among many other things, were the The Guns of Midnight187 beginnings of a Ku Klux Klan rebellion, with scores of out-of-state armed Klansmen converging spontaneously on Oxford.

The FBI was picking up alarming intelligence reports from informants that the Ku Klux Klan was not accepting defeat at the Battle of Oxford.

That same night, at a cafe in Columbus, Georgia, an FBI informant overheard a man identifying himself as a Ku Klux Klansman say that the Klan planned to drop explosives on federal troops in Oxford from small rental airplanes.

McDaniel, decided within days of the federal invasion that he would resurrect the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi, which had been dormant for decades.

By 1964 an extremely violent, secretive new Klan faction called the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was eclipsing the United Klans in Mississippi, attracting a membership of two thousand.

Gallup Poll, 15, 38, 43 Gammel, Loy, 151 Gandhi, Mahatma, 72 Gayden, Dave, 222 Georgia, 28, 57, 62 Ku Klux Klan in, 80,282 Mississippi supporters from, 99,128, Georgia, University of, 62 Germany, 95 Nazi, 170,173 Shelton in, 79 Gettysburg, battle of, 176-77, 297 Giancana, Sam, 39 Gillespie, Ann, 156 Gober, Freeman, 258 Goodman, Andrew, 305 Goodman, William, 92,113 Grant, Ulysses S.

Ku Klux Klan, 2, 33, 35-36, 53 in Battle of Oxford, 186-87, 282 Citizens Council compared with, 58 cross-burning of, 79 Meredith case and, 78-81, 92,99,128, 134 in Mississippi, 92,99, 134,186-87, violence of, 79, 80,187 KWKH radio, 97 Lamar Life Insurance Company, 260 Lambert, Caleb Wiley, 230 Lambert, Melvin, 230 Lang, George, 240 Lee, George Washington, 22 Lee, Robert E.

Ku Klux Klan Wiggins, Mary June: see Meredith, Mary June Wiggins Wilkins, Roy, 42 Williams, Bill, 240 Williams, John Davis, 76, 135, 235-36, 281, 291,294,314 Williams, J.