On this day in 1965: Roy Woodle, bricklayer and itinerant preacher, tells a subcommittee of the House Un-American Activities Committee that the Ku Klux Klan is a “fake” organization that preaches “good things” — segregation and Christianity — but does nothing about them. Its true purpose, he says, is furnishing its leaders with “Cadillacs, rib-eye […]
Posts Tagged ‘ku klux klan’
Ex-member: ‘The Klan don’t have no program’
Posted in On This Day, tagged House Un-American Activities Committee, ku klux klan, roy woodle on October 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
Klan table decor: ‘American flags and electric crosses’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged fellowship forum, ku klux klan, wallace nc on May 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“WALLACE, N.C. — Wallace Klan No. 38 recently staged a big parade and naturalization ceremony. The parade was formed at the high school building in the light of a fiery cross and marched through the principal streets of the town, returning to the athletic field near the high school. “A large class of candidates was […]
NC Klansmen had limits to their anti-Catholicism
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged anti-catholicism, hiram wesley evans, ku klux klan, one hundred percent american, thomas r pegram on July 12, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
“….Moderate, fraternal-minded or skittish Klansmen… had no stomach for the vituperative anti-Catholicism promoted by Klan lecturers… “Even some hooded officials harbored reservations about the bigoted logic of white Protestant nationalism….In 1927, Imperial Wizard [Hiram Wesley] Evans tried to force North Carolina Klan officials to place bills before the state legislature invalidating ‘prenuptial agreements regarding education […]
Thomas Dixon, D.W. Griffith and Quentin Tarantino
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged d w griffith, django unchained, john ford, ku klux klan, quentin tarantino, the birth of a nation, thomas dixon on February 10, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Henry Louis Gates: [Django Unchained] is an opposite extreme of The Birth of a Nation. Did that play a conscious role in your mind? Reversing the depiction of slavery that The Birth of a Nation registered? Quentin Tarantino: Yeah, you have to understand, I’m obsessed with The Birth of a Nation and its making. HLG: […]
Shouting down Klansman violated ‘noblest traditions’
Posted in On This Day, tagged david duke, ferebee taylor, free speech at unc, ku klux klan on January 16, 2013 | 1 Comment »
On this day in 1975: Black hecklers prevent David Duke, a little-known Ku Klux Klansman from Louisiana, from speaking at the University of North Carolina’s Memorial Auditorium. Chancellor Ferebee Taylor calls the incident “a transgression of one of the highest and noblest traditions of this institution.” Duke will go on to form the National Association […]
Klan thuggery forces end to Moore’s mugwumpery
Posted in On This Day, tagged gov dan k moore, ku klux klan, martin luther king, nash square, raleigh nc on July 31, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1966: The same day that Martin Luther King Jr. addresses without incident a crowd of 4,500 at Raleigh’s Reynolds Coliseum, Ku Klux Klansmen in boots and helmets jeeringly remove blacks from a Klan rally at Nash Square. The incident will force Gov. Dan K. Moore, who has tried to treat the […]
Lumbees give thumbs down to ‘Why I Am for Segregation’
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged james catfish cole, ku klux klan, lumbee indians, robeson county nc on January 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1958: Lumbee Indians, upset about two recent cross-burnings near their homes, break up a Ku Klux Klan rally in Robeson County. Klan leader James “Catfish” Cole planned to speak on “Why I Am for Segregation,” but the program is cut short by gunfire, firecrackers and teargas grenades thrown by sheriff’s deputies. […]
Durham parade ousts Klan float in name of ‘harmony’
Posted in History, On This Day, tagged american legion, armistice day, durham nc, ku klux klan on November 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1928: At the request of American Legion officials, Durham police remove a Ku Klux Klan float from line in the annual Armistice Day parade. The float bears the letters “KKK” and two white-draped figures representing “Purity” and “Honesty.” “Since our post is composed of men of all classes and all religious […]
Klan had public support in enforcing morality
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david mark chalmers, hooded americanism, ku klux klan on July 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“While black victims of the Klan had no hope of justice, most white victims had little more. Indeed, ‘through fear or shame,’ few of the Klan’s white victims reported to legal authorities…. “A North Carolinian opponent of the Klan later explained that much of its support derived from a public consensus that the whites ‘they […]
In jail cell, a Klansman changes his sheets
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged horace carter, imperial wizard thomas l hamilton, ku klux klan, pulitzer prize, tabor city tribune, whiteville news reporter, willard cole on June 2, 2011 | 1 Comment »
“For their crusade against the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina, Editor Willard Cole of the Whiteville News Reporter (circ. 5,007) and Editor Horace Carter of the Tabor City Tribune (circ. 1,500) won a Pulitzer Prize this year, the only one ever given to weekly papers. “Last week Editor Cole was praised from another quarter…. […]
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