Ku Klux Klan members are planning to gather in Memphis, Tenn., this month to protest the city’s decision to rename a park dedicated to a KKK member. Nathan Bedford Forrest Park is named after a Confederate general and early klansman, who is buried at the site. A branch of the KKK known as the Loyal [...]
Oberlin College Cancels Classes After Racist Incidents
March 5, 2013 | Posted by
A series of hateful messages have led to a “day of solidarity” at Ohio’s Oberlin College. Classes were canceled Monday as administrators sought to address the outbreak of racist, antigay and anti-Semitic messages scrawled across the liberal institution’s campus. College President Marvin Krislov apologized to students affected by the messages during an assembly at the [...]
KKK Recruitment Fliers Distributed in Atlanta Area
January 23, 2013 | Posted by
Georgia police are investigating the spread of a Ku Klux Klan recruitment flier to determine whether any laws have been broken. Several residents in the small city of Covington, Ga. found fliers in their driveways featuring an illustration of several Klan members standing in front of a tree, urging “Join the KKK – Loyal White [...]
How the Ku Klux Klan Helped Fund Early Jazz Recordings
November 29, 2012 | Posted by
How did the Ku Klux Klan play an indirect role in financing the early popularity of some legendary black jazz musicians? Money from the racist group helped keep an independent record company in business in the 1920s that played a role in the growth of jazz music. Klan members in the 1920s. The Gennett record [...]
KKK Denied Cleanup Georgia Highway Program Slot
June 14, 2012 | Posted by
In a move that surely prevented an uprising, the International Keystone Knights of the KKK in Union County, Georgia was denied its bid to join the state’s highway cleanup program. In announcing its decision, Transportation Department officials met with lawyers from Georgia’s Attorney General’s office and Gov. Nathan Deal. A statement was released that read, [...]
Ku Klux Klan Wants to Adopt a Georgia Highway
June 11, 2012 | Posted by
The Georgia Department of Transportation has a tough decision to make. The Ku Klux Klan put in an application to Georgia’s Adopt-A-Highway program to clean up a highway in North Georgia, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The group wants to clean up one mile of Route 515 in the Appalachian Mountains, near the North Carolina [...]
