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The Rise & fall of Jim Crow (PBS: "Klan..a terrorist organization in service of...Democratic Party")
PBS ^ | 2002 | Richard Wormser

Posted on 10/27/2013 12:19:15 PM PDT by BCrago66

The Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee in the winter of 1865-66. The group adopted the name Ku Klux Klan from the Greek word "kyklos," meaning circle, and the English word clan. In the summer of 1867, the Klan became the "Invisible Empire of the South" at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee attended by delegates from former Confederate states. The group was presided over General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is believed to have been the first Grand Wizard -- the title for the head of the organization.

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To: DoughtyOne

Recall the 1990s when President Clinton tried to have “ebonics” established as a recognized “proper” language.

It would have forever hamstrung the black community.


21 posted on 10/27/2013 1:47:20 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Who implemented Civil Rights?


22 posted on 10/27/2013 2:00:21 PM PDT by CH3CN (Gone Galt 05/25/13)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

Thanks PBS, but we're going to defund your asses anyway. Get a job, [characterization deleted].

Thanks BCrago66 for posting this topic. Not ancient history, but Civil War era, and I'm kind of a loose cannon, so I'm going to ping the GGG list.

23 posted on 10/27/2013 2:23:50 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: SunkenCiv

Thanks for the ping! The left will still deny it but at least it’s out there.


24 posted on 10/27/2013 2:26:52 PM PDT by prisoner6 ( FREEDOM!)
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Democratic Debacle (1964 convention, repercussions today)
America Heritage | July 2004 (cover date) | Joshua Zeitz
Posted on 07/27/2004 9:59:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1179981/posts


25 posted on 10/27/2013 2:28:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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Democratic Debacle
American Heritage | June/July 2004 | Joshua Zeitz
Posted on 07/24/2004 8:49:20 AM PDT by BluegrassScholar
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1177699/posts


26 posted on 10/27/2013 2:28:49 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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27 posted on 10/27/2013 2:43:32 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule the all)
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To: prisoner6

Yes, but I’m expecting this to become the “first shoe” — always wait for the other shoe to drop.


29 posted on 10/27/2013 3:18:37 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: Mikey_1962

Spot on and a fact you don’t get in a government indoctrination facility aka public school.


30 posted on 10/27/2013 5:48:22 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: mosaicwolf

The KKK is still in control of the Democrats. Their low expectations and racial beliefs about blacks drives their entire social program. The philosophy never changed, it simply sugarcoated itself.


31 posted on 10/27/2013 5:50:19 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Ben Ficklin

Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” is a myth, a Democratic myth perpetuated by their capon media.

Take a look: http://blackquillandink.com/?p=6082


32 posted on 10/27/2013 5:53:45 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: gleeaikin

Lincoln would be a Republican trying to get blacks off the Democrat plantation. The welfare-industrial state has destroyed the once thriving black family, destroyed or stopped the normalization of black culture, and eliminated the economic/educational prospects of blacks. I’d include government schools as part of the welfare state. Learn the history, the true history of the post civil war era.


33 posted on 10/27/2013 5:59:17 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: BroJoeK

You might like to comment here.


34 posted on 10/27/2013 6:00:24 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SoCal Pubbie; SunkenCiv
The Klan penetrated both parties in Colorado in the 1920's, but most deeply into the Republicans. In 1924 they elected a nominally Republican Senator and Governor. It was a rather brief era and both were turned out in the next election. A multiple term Democrat Mayor of Denver, Ben Stapleton, began his career with Klan affiliations and support.

Strongly Republican El Paso County (Colorado Springs), backed by Republican leaders, kept the Klan out.

35 posted on 10/28/2013 3:19:02 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Thanks colorado tanker.


36 posted on 10/28/2013 5:28:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: BCrago66

37 posted on 10/28/2013 5:55:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off. -786 +969)
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To: colorado tanker
The Klan hold on Indiana was largely a power move by the local leader, D.C. Stephenson. He was a real piece of work. Anyway, the Klan in the 20s was less worried about about blacks than immigrants and Catholics.
38 posted on 10/28/2013 6:28:42 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: BCrago66

“the Klan quickly became a terrorist organization in service of the Democratic Party and white supremacy.”

This is accepted as gospel.

Does anyone know of original sources to support it?


39 posted on 10/28/2013 9:29:54 PM PDT by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

I spent a week in law school studying the Stephenson case. His kidnapping, rape and torture of a young woman and her resulting suicide is one of the seminal cases establishing “depraved heart murder” (or “extreme indifference” to deadly danger) as a second degree homicide crime. After his conviction the Indiana Klan rapidly declined.


40 posted on 10/29/2013 9:52:54 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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