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3 hari yang lalu · The Ku Klux Klan held a march and rally at the 1924 Democratic National Convention, which was known from that point on as the "Klanbake." The anticipated opening of the Democratic National ...
14 jam yang lalu · This interview originally aired on "In the Moment" on SDPB Radio. Arley Fadness is the author of the nonfiction book "The Ku Klux Klan in South Dakota." He'll present on his book and what he learned from his historical research in Sioux Falls next week. The library event is already full, but we invited him onto "In the Moment" to give our ...
2 hari yang lalu · Steve Crampton, Thomas More Society Senior Counsel, reacted: ... The “Conspiracy Against Rights” statute, a part of the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” was passed in 1870 primarily to guard the rights of recently emancipated African Americans, as granted by the Reconstruction Amendments, against rampant violence by groups like the Ku Klux Klan. ...
5 hari yang lalu · During a 1964 effort to register Black people to vote, known as Freedom Summer, the Ku Klux Klan killed three civil rights activists in Philadelphia, Miss.
3 hari yang lalu · The Ku Klux Klan had surged in popularity after World War I, due to its leadership's connections to passage of the successful Prohibition Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. [3] This made the Klan a political power throughout many regions of the United States, and it reached the apex of its power in the mid-1920s, when it exerted deep cultural ...
3 hari yang lalu · The metaphor of “birth” -- the birth of cinema as a narrative art -- has often been located at a dubious conjunction with D.W. Griffith’s infamous adaptation of the The Clansman and The Leopard’s Spots (novels by Thomas Dixon), eponymously titled The Birth of a Nation (1915).
4 hari yang lalu · Kamala Harris’s campaign has slammed Donald Trump for planning a rally in a Michigan town with long ties to the Ku Klux Klan and white supremacists.