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My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

April 4, 2012
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My Kasual Kountry Weekend With the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

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...

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Interview: Superman’s Real KKK-Fighting Past Revealed

February 14, 2012
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Interview: Superman’s Real KKK-Fighting Past Revealed

Superman fought a very real enemy in radio shows of the 1940s: racial prejudice and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). But Civil War historian and author Rick Bowers felt the official story behind the Man of Steel‘s exploits left something uncovered. People long believed that the radio shows conveyed secret KKK code words, forcing...

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Speaker shares tales of KKK infiltration for Black History Month at Colorado State

February 10, 2012
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Speaker shares tales of KKK infiltration for Black History Month at Colorado State

Imagine being dropped into the middle of ritual epithets, supremacy views, speeches of hatred, a cross on fire and shouts of white power. Imagine being dropped into a Ku Klux Klan gathering. While it would be a frightening experience for most, it was different for Daryl Davis. Davis, whose skin color didn’t match the KKK robes,...

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Superman vs. the KKK: New book sorts fact from fiction

February 8, 2012
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Superman vs. the KKK: New book sorts fact from fiction

A new book, due out in April, will shed some light on the story of the Superman radio shows that took on the KKK back in 1946—and hopefully straighten out the record once and for all. Several versions of this story have made the rounds over the years, and the basic facts are not...

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Klan Goes Door To Door In Delaware

September 7, 2011
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Klan Goes Door To Door In Delaware

NEWPORT, Del. – Fox 29 has uncovered evidence that the Ku Klux klan is actively trying to recruit new members in New Castle County, Delaware. Specifically, the KKK is targeting neighborhoods in Newport, an area southwest of Wilmington just a few miles east of Newark. They’re going door to door, picking predominantly white neighborhoods,...

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