Ku Klux Klan - Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is one of several white-supremacist organizations in the United States, which are dedicated to opposing civil rights for Blacks, Jews, and other ethnic, racial, social or religious groups. They also oppose Catholicism, and 'left' groups such as the IWW, and the gay rights movement. In recent years a spin-off organization came into existence in the United Kingdom. However, the British Ku Klux Klan is a tiny movement with no real influence. Description The name Ku Klux Klan comes from kuklos, the Greek word for circle. A persistent myth has existed in the United States which alleges that the name comes from the sound of the hammer of a rifle being cocked. Members of the Klan are easily recognizable.
KKK - initialism (or a three-letter abbreviation) referring to the following organizations: The Ku Klux Klan is an extremist white supremacy organization in the United States. The Kataastaasang Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (Tagalog for Exalted and Venerable Society of the Sons of the Nation), or Katipunan for short, is the largest revolutionary group that fought for the independence of the Philippines from Spain. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Knights of Labor - 100,000, and in 1900 it was practically non-existent. With the motto "an injury to one is the concern of all", the Knights of Labor attempted to further its idealistic aims - an 8-hour day, the abolition of child labor, equal pay, the elimination of private banks. The Knights were organized both as all-inclusive "general assemblies" and as "trade assemblies" consisting of workers within particular crafts. Women, black workers (after 1883), and employers were welcomed, and bankers, lawyers, gamblers, and stockholders excluded. The organization has been associated with Freemasonry, the Ku Klux Klan and strongly racist views..
James Eastland - Crow laws. When the three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he reportedly told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax and there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, surmising that the three had gone to Chicago, Illinois. As such, he was portrayed in the Hollywood version of the incident, Mississippi Burning. The judge in the Mississippi Burning trial (United States versus Cecil Price et al) was Judge William Cox, who was a former college roommate of Eastland at the University of Mississippi. When the United States Supreme Court decision in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka 347 US 483 1954 was delivered Eastland denounced it, saying, "On May 17, 1954,.
Johnny Rebel - for some time in Detroit, Michigan; but now lives in Columbus, Ohio. Johnny Rebel is the pseudonym of a British producer of pornographic movies. Johnny Rebel, real name C.J. Trahan, is a singer and songwriter from Louisiana who recorded several songs with racist and segregationist themes, supporting "white power" and the Ku Klux Klan. The Anti-Defamation League calls him the original American hate musician. His songs, with titles such as "Cajun KKK", "We Don't Want Niggers in our Schools", and "Homo Truck Drivin", contain numerous references to the word nigger and one notable reference to Martin Luther King's "baboon mouth". Johnny Rebel's texts criticize the NAACP, refers to Michael Jordan as a "Ubangi" and have references to violence against Bill Cosby and Steve Urkel, a character played by Jaleel White in.
John Anthony Walker - to the Soviets even after John Walker’s retirement from the Navy in 1975. Walker’s activities went completely unknown to US authorities, despite his living a relatively extravagant lifestyle off of his spying proceeds. As a cover activity he joined right-wing political organizations such as the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan. It is estimated that Walker earned more than $1 million from more than two decades of spying. In 1985, Walker and his accomplices was arrested after an investigation was prompted by his being reported to authorities by his wife. They were tried and most received multiple life terms. His son, Michael Walker, who had a relatively minor role in the ring and turned state’s evidence, was released in February of 2000..
June 21 - Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during Winnepeg General Strike. 1919 - Admiral Ludvig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet in Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed were the last casualties of the First World War. 1940 - France surrenders to Germany. 1940 - First successful west to east navigation of Northwest Passage begins at Vancouver British Columbia. 1957 - Ellen Louks Fairclough sworn in as Canada's first woman Cabinet Minister 1964 - Three Civil Rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Cheney and Mickey Schwerner are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi by members of the Ku Klux Klan. 1973 - In handing down the decision in Miller v. California 413 US 15, the Supreme Court of the United States establishes the Miller.
July 13 - 25 hours and resulting in looting and other disorder. 1982 - Montreal hosts the first baseball All-Star Game outside the United States. 1985 - The Live Aid benefit concert takes place in London and Philadelphia. 1996 - A Garuda Indonesia Airways DC-10 crashes on take-off from Fukuoka Airport, Japan, killing 3 passengers. 2002 - A lighting strike sets off the Sour Biscuit Fire in Oregon and northern California, which had burned 499,570 acres when finally contained on September 5. Births 100 BC - Julius Caesar (or July 12), statesman and military leader (+ 44 BC) 1816 - Gustav Freitag, writer (+ 1895) 1821 - Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate general and postwar leader of the Ku Klux Klan. 1841 - Otto Wagner, architect (+ 1918) 1864 - John Jacob Astor, entrepreneur (+.
Harold von Braunhut - water was added. Invisible Goldfish - non-existent fish that were guaranteed to remain invisible permanently. Von Braunhut was also a manager of a man whose act consisted of diving 40 feet into a children's wading pool with only 12 inches of water. Von Braunhut also raced motorcycles as The Green Hornet. Von Braunhut also ascribed to extreme right-wing beliefs. According to a report the Anti-Defamation League published in 1996, he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations. The Washington Post printed a story on von Braunhut's political beliefs in 1998, which included his support of Richard Butler, but von Braunhut refused to comment. Relatives told the newspaper that Von Braunhut was Jewish. Von Braunhut repeatedly declined to answer later questions about his racial beliefs or his.
History of the United States (1865-1918) - slaves in the southern states. In response to efforts by southern states to deny civil rights to the freed slaves, Congress enacted a civil rights act in 1866 (and again in 1875). This led to conflict with President Andrew Johnson, who vetoed the Civil Rights Act of 1866; however, his veto was overridden. After solid Republican gains in the midterm elections, the first Reconstruction Act was passed on March 2, 1867; the last on March 11, 1868. The first Reconstruction Act divided ten Confederate states (all except Tennessee, which had been readmitted in 1866) into 5 military districts. Governments that had been established under Abraham Lincoln's plan were abolished; the first Reconstruction Act stated that "no legal State governments or adequate protection for life or property now exist in the rebel.
History of the United States (1945-1964) - State John Foster Dulles was the dominant figure in the nation's foreign policy in the 1950s. A patrician, visceral anticommunist closely tied to the nation's financial establishment, Dulles was obsessed with communism's challenge to US corporate power in the Third World. He denounced the "containment" of the Truman administration and espoused an active program of "liberation," which would lead to a "rollback" of communism. The most prominent of those doctrines was the policy of "massive retaliation," which Dulles announced early in 1954, eschewing the costly, conventional ground forces characteristic of the Truman administration in favor of wielding the vast superiority of the US nuclear arsenal and covert intelligence. Dulles defined this approach as "brinksmanship"—pusing the Soviet Union to the brink of war in order to exact concessions. Thus in 1953, the.
History of anti-Semitism - Bull Cum Nimis Absurdum, Pope Paul IV writes: "It appears utterly absurd and impermissible that the Jews, whom God has condemned to eternal slavery for their guilt, should enjoy our Christian love." He renews anti-Jewish legislation and installs a locked nightly ghetto in Rome. The Bull also forces Jewish males to wear a yellow hat, females - yellow kerchief. Owning real estate or practicing medicine on Christians is forbidden. It also limits Jewish communities to only one synagogue. The Talmud is confiscated and publicaly burned in Rome on Rosh Hashanah, starting a wave of Talmud burning throughout Italy. 1558 Recanti, Italy: a baptized Jew Joseph Paul More enters synagogue on Yom Kippur under the protection of Pope Paul IV and tried to preach a conversion sermon. The congregation evicts him. Soon.
Hugo Black - workers' compensation cases. After serving stateside as an Army captain in World War I, and as Police Court judge in Birmingham and Solicitor for Jefferson County, Black ran for a seat in the United States Senate. Since in 1920s Alabama the Ku Klux Klan was such a politically active force, Black, as insurance for his upcoming senate race, joined the organization and was an active member for two years, but avoiding involvement in the violence sponsored by the group. Black won a seat in the Senate in 1926 and remained for eleven years. While there, he was a staunch supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, and was to remain so while acting as a justice on the Supreme Court. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Roosevelt, he was confirmed by the.
Greensboro, North Carolina - 1960 four black college students sat down at an all-white Woolworth's lunch counter, and refused to leave when they were denied service. Hundreds of others soon joined in this first sit-in, which lasted for several months. Such protests quickly spread across the South, ultimately leading to the integration of Woolworth's and other chains. (The original Woolworth's counter and stools now sit in the Smithsonian Museum.) On November 3, 1979 gunfire was exchanged between Communist Workers Party members holding an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally, and a group of KKK and neo-Nazi counter-protesters. Five CWP members were killed and seven were wounded and television footage of the event was shown across the nation. First Lady Dolley Madison and writer O. Henry were born in Greensboro; science fiction/fantasy author Orson Scott Card is a.
Great Migration - could no longer afford to pay their rents; World War I effectively put a halt to the flow of European immigrants to the emerging industrial centers Northeast and Midwest, causing shortages of workers in the factories; Anti-immigration legislation after the war similarly resulted in a dire shortage of workers; The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and its aftermath displaced hundreds of thousands of African-American farm workers; While they still existed in the North, racial prejudices were less likely to result in severe violence and terror campaigns against the African American population, such as that waged by the newly reemerged Ku Klux Klan; The Great Depression caused people to seek new employment opportunities; Even before America's entry into World War II, industrial production in the Northeast and Midwest increased rapidly as a.
Gutzon Borglum - but told the committee that a 70-foot carving of Lee at Stone Mountain would look like a postage stamp on the side of a barn. Borglum's ideas eventually evolved into a high-relief frieze of Lee, Jefferson Davis, and 'Stonewall' Jackson riding around the mountain, followed by a legion of artillery troops. After a delay caused by World War I, Borglum and the newly-chartered Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association set to work on this unexampled monument, the size of which had never been attempted before. Many difficulties slowed progress, some because of the sheer scale involved. After finishing the detailed model of the carving, Borglum was unable to trace his ideas onto the massive area onto which he was working, until he developed a gigantic magic lantern to project the image onto.
United States Populist Party - causes and the party faded from the national political scene. The party's desire for direct election of Senators was realized in 1913 with the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment. The party's call for civil service reform became a part of the United States Progressive Party platform. In 1984, the Populist Party name was revived, by some extreme-right-wing activists with no connection to the earlier Populist Party and sharing none of their ideology. This party became the electoral vehicle for the right-wing Presidential campaigns of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in 1988, and of former Green Beret officer Bo Gritz in 1992, but was defunct by 1996. See also: List of political parties in the United States.
Universal suffrage - against women having the right to vote. Many societies in the past have denied people the right to vote on the basis of race or ethnicity. Examples of this include the exclusion of people of African descent from voting in apartheid-era South Africa. In the pre-Civil Rights Era American South blacks were technically allowed to vote, but were prevented from exercising the vote by various means. The Ku Klux Klan formed after the Civil War largely to intimidate blacks and prevent them from voting. Most universal suffrage systems still exclude some potential voters. For example, many jurisdictions deny the vote to various categories of convicted criminals, and almost all jurisdictions deny the vote to non-citizen residents. Universal suffrage has been granted (and been revoked) at various times in various countries throughout.
Fort Pillow massacre - under the command of General Nathan Forrest, the first leader of the Ku Klux Klan, captured Fort Pillow in Jackson, Tennessee. The fort was occupied by 262 African American and 295 white soldiers. Despite the fact that these men surrendered, Bedford's men massacred the Union soldiers in cold blood burning and burying some alive. President Abraham Lincoln condemned the incident, but in 1864 Confederate Colonel W.P. Shingler adopted the policy of killing all black prisoners..
Escapology - your hands as normal, for gripping, and they become relegated to paws, which cannot be used to untie knots or handle keys. Thumbcuffs are available which secure the thumbs with a key, or use thread (thinnest you can find that's strong enough) With ropes, there are secure ways to tie people, and there are safe ways to tie people: rarely can you manage both! Especially when someone is struggling, slippy knots can cut-off circulation, and perhaps even strangle if the rope is around the neck (it should't be) To make a rope-tie inescapable, your best bet is to start with a hangman's noose (jack ketch's knot), and pull the loop tight around whichever part of your volunteer's body that you need to secure. This knot is solid, self-tightening, and difficult to.
