Klansman
Americannoun
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Klansmen
plural
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
He was challenged by CNN host Jake Tapper about his repeated claim that Ms. Loeffler has campaigned with a Klansman, which Mr. Tapper said was “not true.”
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
Atlanta—the Imperial City of the KKK’s Invisible Empire, in Klan jargon—was also home to Stetson Kennedy, a thirty- year-old man with the bloodlines of a Klansman but a temperament that ran opposite.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
The prolific Black muralist, who died a couple of years ago, painted the Jefferson Park work in 1997 and filled space with Black Panthers and celebrated Black radicals, helmeted police and hooded Klansmen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
Thousands of suspected Klansmen were arrested, and those who weren’t fled.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 24, 2021
To the Judge, Communists and Klansmen each constituted dangers to democracy, but he insisted upon their right to be heard.
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2021
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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