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However, even though my teacher taught us about Emmett Till's murder, she didn't explain the White supremacist ideology of Emmett's killer, J.W.

From Salon • Mar. 12, 2023

The summer of 1919 was marked by race riots in many cities, and in the 1920s the Ku Klux Klan, a White supremacist group formed after the Civil War, spread throughout the nation.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

But at a detention hearing, his ex-wife, Kambria Ann Caldwell, refuted that claim, arguing that Caldwell is not a White supremacist and that he was friends with Black and Latino co-workers.

From Fox News • Mar. 7, 2021

A 2006 FBI report, which was made public last year, warned that White supremacists had penetrated the ranks of law enforcement to gather intelligence and disrupt investigations into activities of White supremacist groups.

From Washington Times • Feb. 11, 2021

White supremacist violence led to the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

From Washington Post • Jun. 16, 2020