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Tom Metzger. Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and Klansman. [1][2][3][4] He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-Nazi organization, in 1983. He was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Metzger voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United ...
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of an American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organization and hate group. Various historians, including Fergus Bordewich, have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. [18][19][20][21] There have been ...
Edgar Ray Killen (January 17, 1925 – January 11, 2018) was an American Ku Klux Klan organizer who planned and directed the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, three civil rights activists participating in the Freedom Summer of 1964. [1][2] He was found guilty in state court of three counts of manslaughter on June ...
September 17, 1988. (1988-09-17) (aged 67) Mobile, Alabama, U.S. Known for. Successfully suing the Ku Klux Klan. Children. 7, including Michael Donald. Beulah Mae Donald (October 10, 1920 – September 17, 1988) was an African-American woman who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan after her son, Michael Donald, was lynched.
Two children wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods stand on either side of Dr. Samuel Green, then with the rank of Grand Dragon, at an initiation ceremony at Stone Mountain on July 24, 1948. Samuel Green (November 18, 1889 – August 18, 1949) was a Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1940s, organizing its third and final ...
William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist and human rights activist.One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world.
Keshia Thomas. Keshia Thomas (born c. 1978) is an African-American woman and human rights activist known for a 1996 event at which she was photographed protecting a man believed to have been a Ku Klux Klan supporter. [1][2][3] The resulting photograph, which was taken by Mark Brunner, has been considered to be iconic in nature and was named one ...
Release. February 11, 2007. (2007-02-11) Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom ...