Klansman
Americannoun
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Klansmen
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Nobody wants to be called a Nazi, a Klansman, or an antisemite, and the average American decries acts of overtly racist violence and brazenly authoritarian philosophies.
From Salon ● Sep. 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
“There are a variety of actors, and it’s not just the standard Klansman doing this,” Weil said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 28, 2020
The fourth season of Slate’s Slow Burn will explore how a Nazi sympathizer and former Klansman fashioned himself into a mainstream figure, and why some voters came to embrace his message.
From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2020
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
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
Less famous is his subsequent decision to pardon the relative handful of Klansmen who actually went to prison.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2020
Jones, a former U.S. attorney best known for prosecuting Ku Klux Klansmen responsible for Birmingham’s infamous 1963 church bombing, became the first Alabama Democrat elected to the U.S.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 4, 2020
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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