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...Klux Klan and chants of “the Jews will not replace us” had “very fine people on both sides”; secretary of defence Jim Mattis, who saw Trump treat Nato like a mob boss pissed by sluggish payers, and his...
...He is now representing 16 mostly black defendants in the state seeking to overturn criminal convictions issued by non-unanimous, so-called “Jim Crow” juries....
...Indeed, at times Hurston — who witnessed the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan, the popularity of eugenics and fierce resistance to black civil rights — carries herself with mesmerising confidence: “Sometimes...
...The SNCC were the shock troops of the civil rights movement, confronting violent supporters of the segregated Jim Crow social order on their home turf....
...Stoner was active in the Ku Klux Klan, described Adolf Hitler as “too moderate” and served as an attorney for James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King Jr’s assassin....
...Vernon Jordan, who rose from the Jim Crow Deep South to become a civil-rights leader and later a dealmaker who skilfully shuttled through the corridors of American political and corporate power, has died...
...losses in the food and drink processing sector — covering such Belgian staples as chocolate, beer and frozen potatoes — would be steeper than any other sector of the country’s economy, according to the KU...
...The 1950’s civil disobedience was partly borne of the frustration of black soldiers returning from second world war victory to the grim nullity of life in the Jim Crow south....
...“The country lost a hero last night, a movement lost an icon, and I lost a personal friend,” Jim Clyburn, the congressman from South Carolina who knew Lewis since 1960, said in a short video statement on...
...They were erected for political reasons to signal to uppity blacks that they should give up trying to overturn Jim Crow....
...(FT) jim.brunsden@ft.com; @jimbrunsden The Brussels Briefing will return on May 2....
...His great-grandfather was murdered in jail; he’d been imprisoned after a white woman accused him of not stepping aside for her: “Bumptious contact, as Jim Crow defined it.”...
...National Bank of Belgium’ — and the answer was 20 minutes, because that was the time it took in those days for a fax to arrive from the Bundesbank in Frankfurt,” said Geert Van Calster, a legal scholar at KU...
...“I don’t want people to forget that the Ku Klux Klan is an American terrorist group. So are neo-Nazis....
...This was dangerous work, criss-crossing Georgia organising black voter registration efforts, running the risk of lynchings by the Ku Klux Klan....
...Mr Trump had been strongly criticised by civil rights groups, business leaders and fellow Republicans for failing to denounce by name the Ku Klux Klan and other far-right groups behind Saturday’s protests...
...Jim Dowson, Britain First’s founder and financial backer, who has developed links with fascist groups across Europe, left in 2014 in a dispute over tactics....
...widespread association with white supremacist organisations emerged only in the mid-1940s, amid Southern fears that the destabilising forces unleashed by the second world war might undermine the entire Jim...
...Mr Sessions was denied a federal judgeship in the 1980s after Thomas Figures, an African-American prosecutor, testified that Mr Sessions had referred to him as “boy” and said the Ku Klux Klan was fine “until...
...s Triple Quartet and Yuko Ikoma’s Suite for Fragile Chamber Orchestra – all bought at the only place I buy physical records, a great little shop called Otonomad in Tokyo. 1F, 3-2 6-4 Kitazawa, Setagaya-ku...
...The burning crosses and white sheets may have disappeared but the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan lived on in other forms....
...Freddy Delvaux is emeritus professor of brewing at KU Leuven university, and now runs a small craft brewery with his sons, called De Kroon....
...Its neon-noir atmospherics drew comparisons with Raymond Chandler and Jim Thompson....
...Those who managed to register were subject to harassment and physical violence at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan and other white vigilantes....
...He admitted he had shared a platform with the Ku Klux Klan but claimed this was only to win people over to his more “moderate” position....
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