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GRAND RAPIDS — Adorned in familiar white sheets and ropes, they marched 3,000 strong through the Polish and Lithuanian immigrants, and Catholics of the city’s West Side waving American flags behind floats reading “Only Americans On Guard.” What they got from the crowd was stony silence. “It’s thumbing your nose right at that...
Vandals have struck a northwest Cedar Rapids neighborhood, marring vehicles, mailboxes and garage doors with the letters KKK. Homes in the Stoney Point neighborhood have been targeted. Police have responded to at least four calls there in the past three days. Tammy Koolbeck is one of the vandalism victims, and she says she wonders...
Notoriety over a costumed ice cream cone mascot mistaken by passersby for a Ku Klux Klan protestor apparently did not result in more customers for a Florida ice cream shop. The Ocala Star Banner reported Saturday that the Ice Cream Family Corner & Sandwiches had closed for good. The shop closed for roof repairs...
• Union and Confederate troops fought at Calico Ghost Town this weekend, meeting two times a day to exchange gun and cannon fire during Civil War Days. The annual Presidents’ Day weekend event is put on by the American Civil War Society, a Southern California-based Civil War re-enactment group. The event has been held...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Ben Jones, who starred as the mechanic Cooter in the TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, isn’t a big fan of NASCAR these days. Jones, a former U.S. congressman from Georgia, was dismayed that NASCAR nixed a plan for golfer Bubba Watson to drive the General Lee car from the hit television series...
A monument to commemorate the sacrifice of Confederate soldiers who “gave their all to liberate our beloved Texas and southland” 150 years ago in the Civil War has been erected in the western-most portion of Socorro’s cemetery. The marker, and the establishment here in Socorro of New Mexico‘s only Confederate Memorial Cemetery, is...
Sharing a bond with those who fought beneath the waves, a group of submariners from the United Kingdom paused Friday to pay tribute to the crews of the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, the first sub in history to sink an enemy warship. During a brief ceremony in a grove where the three crews are...
NASCAR and track officials canceled plans to have pro golfer Bubba Watson drive the car from the television series The Dukes of Hazzard at Phoenix International Raceway because of concerns about a negative reaction to an image of the Confederate flag. Watson was scheduled to drive the 1969 Dodge Charger, known as the “General Lee,” on...
UKANW :The United Klans of America Northwest is the northwest chapter of the UKA :The united Klans of America I Know when people hear the word Klan they think of hate groups,lynchings ,and the old films on the history channel Well i’m here to tell you that is not the klan of today....
“I accepted an invitation to talk to the women’s branch of the Ku Klux Klan…I saw through the door dim figures parading with banners and illuminated crosses…In the end, through simple illustrations I believed I had accomplished my purpose. A dozen invitations to speak to similar groups were proffered.” (Sanger 366) The above quote...
