Posts Tagged ‘ White supremacy ’

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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Black Idaho lawmaker receives invite mailing from KKK

April 11, 2012
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Black Idaho lawmaker receives invite mailing from KKK

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...

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Curator refuses to cut child’s Ku Klux Klan suit

April 6, 2012
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Curator refuses to cut child’s Ku Klux Klan suit

A museum owner refused to cut up a child‘s Ku Klux Klan uniform on national television. Andy Jones, who runs Littledean Jail in the Forest of Dean, appeared on Channel 4′s Four Rooms show this week. The format sees people pitching artifacts to four leading dealers and collectors one-by-one, the catch being if they...

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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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Ex-Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard lectures Geelong kids

March 26, 2012
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Ex-Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard lectures Geelong kids

  Ex Ku Klux Klan leader speaks to students Gives lecture on importance of stopping hatred, bullying Says he is now trying to help others A KU Klux Klan Imperial Wizard turned born-again-Christian has visited Geelong to lecture local school children on the importance of stopping hatred and accepting difference. Johnny Lee Clary said...

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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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KKK Material Found In Rapid City

March 22, 2012
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KKK Material Found In Rapid City

Walmart, Scheels and Best Buy reported to police that they were targeted by what is believed to a group of people slipping cards declaring South Dakota as “Klan country” into items on store shelves. Some stores in Rapid City are on alert for a return visit by whoever stuffed Ku Klux Klan literature into...

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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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White supremacist group wants to turn Northwest into white homeland

March 2, 2012
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White supremacist group wants to turn Northwest into white homeland

Montana state legislators this week received a newsletter from a white supremacist group tied to the Ku Klux Klan that wants to turn the Northwest into “the future homeland of the white race from people all over the world.” The newsletter came from the Northwest Knights, whose national headquarters is based in Harrison, Ark.,...

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