Posts Tagged ‘ Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations ’

Reported Ku Klux Klan gathering takes place in Eden

May 9, 2012
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Reported Ku Klux Klan gathering takes place in Eden

EDEN, N.C. — Members of the Ku Klux Klan apparently held a gathering at the site of a former Sonic Drive-In Tuesday evening in Eden. The Greensboro News & Record reported that five Klan members dressed in white robes waved signs at the vacant lot at 104 E. Harris Place. The paper reported that police...

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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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KKK Reacts to Letters Left on Springfield Lawns

April 17, 2012
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KKK Reacts to Letters Left on Springfield Lawns

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...

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Springfield residents find KKK flyers in driveways

April 16, 2012
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Springfield residents find KKK flyers in driveways

Springfield (KMTR) – Neighbors on Centennial Boulevard are disturbed by the flyers left in their driveways by a Ku Klux Klan group Sunday morning.   The headline reads, “Stop Racism,” which some residents found intriguing, and opened up the letter to learn more.   When they did, they found a surprising message.   The...

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Student says he’s being racially taunted at Louisville High

April 5, 2012
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Student says he’s being racially taunted at Louisville High

A replica of a hangman’s noose, a spray-painted reference to the Ku Klux Klan and vandalism to a vehicle are among the indignities a Louisville High School student says he has endured. Joshua Rouse, whose father is black and mother is white, said he has been the target of racial harassment from classmates throughout...

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Chillicothe Grey Ghost linked to the KKK?

March 26, 2012
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Chillicothe Grey Ghost linked to the KKK?

If you’ve made a trip through downtown Chillicothe, you might have seen the new addition- a large statue of Illinois Valley Central’s grey ghost. While some call it the pride of the city, others claim the ghost represents something else all together- past links to the Ku Klux Klan. Most Chillicothians we spoke with...

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West Ashley neighborhood gets KKK fliers

March 24, 2012
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West Ashley neighborhood gets KKK fliers

Some residents in West Ashley‘s racially diverse Pierpont neighborhood received fliers asking them to join the Ku Klux Klan. A school-age black girl numbered among the people who turned over solicitations claiming to come from the white supremacist group. The girl told Charleston County sheriff’s deputies that she found a flier in her yard...

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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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KKK presence remains in Colorado

February 28, 2012
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KKK presence remains in Colorado

The Ku Klux Klan has had a long history in Colorado, and the state still has 12 active white supremacist groups, the Southern Poverty Law Center says. Cole Thornton, Imperial Grand Wizard of the United Northern and Southern Knights of the KKK, which claims to be the largest Klan offshoot in the country, told the Durango...

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