Klan
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“Dirty Harry” was condemned as racist and even fascist in its day; Dirty Marky paints a crowd-pleasing picture of how disregarding the rulebook could help topple the Ku Klux Klan.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The effort also targeted civil rights activists, anti-war protesters and even some conservative groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
Mr. Davis is a blues musician and author of “The Klan Whisperer.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
Besides evil billionaires, Superman has taken on superpowered supervillains, alien invaders and even his clones, as well as human threats like Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 12, 2025
Americans who might have been philosophically inclined to oppose the Klan had now been given enough specific information to oppose them more actively, and public sentiment began to shift.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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