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Ninety years ago today The Bakersfield Californian published the names of nearly 350 local members of the Ku Klux Klan, and a few days later, it added 50 more names. More than 300 were Bakersfield residents, and most of the rest lived in or near Taft and Tehachapi. Within days members began resigning from...
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...
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...
Bloomington – The Ku Klux Klan is planning to march through the streets of Bloomington, but the time and date for the group’s demonstration is a mystery. The organization‘s leader says the KKK plans a march with up to 300 Klansmen in full robe and hood. Some city leaders are hoping to unmask them....
weekend at the Arkansas headquarters of The Knights Part of the KKK brought in a variety of correspondence. Below, the most vibrant. From Rachel Pendergraft, national organizer of The Knights Party and avowed admirer of Hitler: Hello Nolan, Just a quick note to say that all in all, the article was rather balanced –...
From the outskirts of Harrison, Ark., take Highway 7 North about seven miles. Take a right by the Conoco, down Zinc Road, past the green cow pastures and the farmhouses and four low-slung churches. After seven miles, the road appears to head straight into a wall of trees, before veering left and plunging down...
A member of the Ku Klux Klan was arrested in Mount Victory, Ohio over the weekend after he allegedly pulled a gun and threatened to shoot a black man during a march. Kevin Allan Gibbs, 22, was arrested and charged with misdemeanor aggravated menacing, a first-degree misdemeanor, according to the Hardin County Sheriff’s Office. Authorities...
The Monroe County Public Library has been given an old document that recalls a time in Key West‘s history when not everyone was considered to be “One Human Family.” The Key West branch’s Florida History section is now home to the original, certified 1921 charter of the Ku Klux Klan of the...
Winning a million-dollar judgment against a former leader of a Kentucky-based Ku Klux Klan group might have been the easy part for Jordan Gruver, a Latino man who sued after he was beaten at a county fair in 2006. Collecting the money could prove to be impossible. “It’s one thing to have a judgment,”...
