Klansman
Americannoun
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Klansmen
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noun
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Origin of Klansman
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I don’t think Tucker Carlson is secretly a Klansman.
From Slate ● May 18, 2022
“You said that, quote, Kelly Loeffler has been campaigning with a Klansman, unquote. That’s not true,” said Mr. Tapper.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 3, 2021
Mitchell repeats, and appears to believe, allegations that the F.B.I. essentially deputized a mobster to shake down a frightened Klansman for information.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2020
Some are famous Washington figures, including the former Klansman and eventual Supreme Court justice Hugo Black, the legendary Robert F. Kennedy and the unjustly maligned George McGovern.
From Salon ● Nov. 7, 2019
Between Brown’s inside dope and everything that Kennedy had learned via his own investigations, he probably knew more Klan secrets than the average Klansman.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
What’s provocative is not simply the portrayal of Klansmen, simplified to little more than lumpy white triangles with skinny black rectangles for eyeholes.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2023
Former NFL running back Jerone Davison released a 30-second ad Wednesday entitled “Make Rifles Great Again” that shows him preparing to confront a dozen Klansmen in white hoods as they attack his home.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 6, 2022
Its targets were not just spies, Klansmen and violent, militant organizations, but also civil rights groups and anti-Vietnam war groups engaging in peaceful protest protected under the 1st Amendment.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 2, 2022
Benbow cited examples of Klansmen who served as deacons, using scripture to justify Jim Crow, as well as the way the Black church was “the seat of the Civil Rights movement.”
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 10, 2021
It had never occurred to her before that beneath their robes Klansmen might sometimes be quaking.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
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