Posts Tagged ‘ Race and ethnicity in the United States Census ’

KKK invites Reidsville residents to cross-burning event

May 19, 2012
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KKK invites Reidsville residents to cross-burning event

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...

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KKK group hosts rally in Ashland City

May 6, 2012
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KKK group hosts rally in Ashland City

About a dozen people with the Aryan Nations-Knights of the Ku Klux Klan spread their message for more than an hour Saturday afternoon on the Cheatham County Courthouse lawn in downtown Ashland City. The group is dedicated to the preservation and advancement of the white race.   Several people with the group spoke during...

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KKK Concerns Residents While Soliciting New Members

May 3, 2012
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KKK Concerns Residents While Soliciting New Members

Kenyetta Freeman noticed fliers on nearly every windshield at the “Arbors on Main” apartments as she was getting into her car Wednesday morning. “It was face down,” Freeman said.  “I was like why did they get one and I didn’t get one. Now I’m glad I didn’t get one.” The fliers say the Loyal White...

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Town with past ties to KKK tries to get blacks to return

March 30, 2012
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Town with past ties to KKK tries to get blacks to return

HARRISON, Ark. — When a black man supposedly broke into a white man’s home in 1905, a mob ran most black people out of town — and instantly gave this community a lasting reputation as being too dangerous for minorities. More than a century later, only 34 of the nearly 13,000 residents in Harrison...

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KKK member arrested for ‘menacing’ black man with gun at Ohio march

March 28, 2012
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KKK member arrested for ‘menacing’ black man with gun at Ohio march

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...

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Arkansas town known as racist enclave with ties to the KKK now says it welcomes diversity

March 28, 2012
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Arkansas town known as racist enclave with ties to the KKK now says it welcomes diversity

When a black man supposedly broke into a white man’s home in 1905, a mob ran most black people out of town — and instantly gave this community a lasting reputation as being too dangerous for minorities. More than a century later, only 34 of the nearly 13,000 residents in Harrison are black. But...

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Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds SPLC’s Verdict Against Klan Leader

March 21, 2012
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Kentucky Supreme Court Upholds SPLC’s Verdict Against Klan Leader

Ron Edwards has seen his once-sprawling Imperial Klans of America (IKA) dwindle to nearly nothing since the Southern Poverty Law Center won a $2.5 million verdict against him and a lieutenant in 2008. Now, Edwards sits in a federal prison on unrelated gun and drug charges. This week, he got more bad news. The Kentucky...

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Klansman Running for Idaho Sheriff

March 20, 2012
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Klansman Running for Idaho Sheriff

A white supremacist in Idaho seeking to swap his white hood for a sheriff‘s badge says voters should look at his position on crime, not race. Shaun Winkler, who is the leader of the local White Knights of the KKK and has links to the Aryan Nation, hopes to beat the incumbent sheriff and...

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Cross burn trial pushed back

March 16, 2012
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Cross burn trial pushed back

A judge Wednesday said four people accused of burning a cross near a mixed-race family’s Arroyo Grande home won’t face trial until May because their defense attorneys still have not received all police interviews, 9-1-1 recordings, reports and had a chance to view all the evidence. San Luis Obispo County Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn Duffy...

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Unknown man leaves Ku Klux Klan recruiting cards at store

March 10, 2012
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Unknown man leaves Ku Klux Klan recruiting cards at store

A man described as a bald, white male left a stack of Ku Klux Klan recruiting cards behind in a store in a black community, KRIV-TV reports. The cards read “The Fire Still Burns For God, Race and Country” and are apparently distributed by the White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which are based...

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