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The Ku Klux Klan protested in Eden last week, and this week some of its members have been passing out fliers inviting people in Reidsville to a cross-burning. The fliers were placed in and around Sherwood Drive, Linville Drive, Reids School Road and Poplar Street in the city. Annie P. Pinnix and her husband...
Santa Cruz’s Pacific Avenue hosts any number of eclectic and left-leaning organizations throughout the year, from the unsanctioned Last Night Santa Cruz DIY Parade to next month’s Pride Parade and Festival. But in 1927, a group of a much different sort, heralding a much different message, took to the city’s main drag. Members of...
An Idaho Board of Education member joins at least eight state lawmakers who say they have received unwanted solicitations to join the Ku Klux Klan. Education board member Milford Terrell told The Idaho Statesman ( http://bit.ly/I6uE4Z) Monday the letter he received appears identical to the hand-addressed mailings sent to lawmakers soliciting $35 in membership...
An Ohio man suspected of holding a gun and making a threat during a confrontation between a Ku Klux Klan group and a black man has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor charge. The suspect, 22-year-old Kevin Gibbs of Hamilton, is white. Last month, the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office received a report that a...
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. — The Knight’s Party, also known as the Ku Klux Klan, is reacting to literature claiming to be from the KKK ending up on Springfield lawns. The letters showed up this weekend. The national organization of the Knight’s Party is not affiliated with the group that claims to have sent out the...
The African-American lawmaker in Idaho who received a flier from the KKK says she’s using the incident as an opportunity to talk about bigotry in the state. State representative Cherie Buckner-Webb and four other Idaho lawmakers have reported getting the mailings at home. Cherie Buckner-Webb grew up in Boise and remembers when someone set...
Indeed, over his breakfast of biscuits and gravy at a diner here, Railton Loy — international imperial wizard of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan — takes a short break from the conversation, eases out the morning’s cocktail of prescription meds and pops a few pills. Diabetes, it seems, is one of...
The KKK and their affiliated political front, the Knight’s Party, announced last week their intention to organize a demonstration on the lawn of Bloomington‘s county Courthouse for Saturday, April 7. Their stated goal was already repugnant – honoring Confederate war dead and the legacy of the Confederacy – but it was also clear they...
A Ku Klux Klan leader says membership applications recently mailed to several Idaho lawmakers didn’t come from his group. Idaho’s lone black lawmaker, Democratic Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb of Boise, was among legislators who said this week they received a mailing from the Knights of the KKK soliciting $35 in membership dues, a photo and...
Idaho’s lone black lawmaker says that receiving a direct mailing from a national Ku Klux Klan organization has bolstered her resolve to fight intolerance in a state as well known for its fancy ski resorts as its white supremacist organizations. Boise Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb tells the Idaho Statesman she received a hand-addressed application last...
