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U.S. Klans. Flier advertising the U.S. Klans. The U.S. Klans, officially, the U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. was the dominant Ku Klux Klan in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The death of its leader in 1960, along with increased factionalism, splits and competition from other groups led to its decline by the mid-to-late 1960s. [1]
Association of Georgia Klans. The Association of Georgia Klans, also known as the Associated Klans of Georgia, was a Klan faction organized by Samuel Green in 1944, and led by him until his death in 1949. At its height the organization had klaverns in each of Georgia's 159 counties, as well as klaverns in Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and ...
The United Klans of America Inc. ( UKA ), based in Alabama, is a Ku Klux Klan organization active in the United States. Led by Robert Shelton, the UKA peaked in membership in the late 1960s and 1970s, [ 1] and it was the most violent Klan organization of its time. [ 2] Its headquarters was the Anglo-Saxon Club outside Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [ 3]
The Anniston and Birmingham bus attacks, which occurred on May 14, 1961, in Anniston and Birmingham, both Alabama, were acts of mob violence targeted against civil rights activists protesting against racial segregation in the Southern United States. They were carried out by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the National States' Rights Party in ...
Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/notes 1960: 13 Fighting Men: Harry W. Gerstad: Grant Williams, Brad Dexter, Carole Mathews: United States: B Western The Alamo: John Wayne: John Wayne, Richard Widmark, Laurence Harvey, Frankie Avalon, Patrick Wayne, Linda Cristal, Joan O'Brien, Chill Wills, Ken Curtis, Denver Pyle, Chuck Roberson, Guinn Williams, Richard Boone, "Big" John Hamilton
The National Knights were founded by James R. Venable, a second generation Klansman whose family owned the property on Stone Mountain where the Second Era Ku Klux Klan was founded. Venable had been a member of a succession of Klans since 1927 by the late 1950s, when he had risen to the rank of Imperial Klonsel of the U.S. Klans.
Dr. No informs them he is a member of SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counter-intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion, and he plans to disrupt the Project Mercury space launch from Cape Canaveral with his atomic-powered radio beam. Bond and Honey escape from the island, killing No and blowing up his compound in the process.
Title Director Cast Genre Note The Dark at the Top of the Stairs: Delbert Mann: Robert Preston, Dorothy McGuire, Eve Arden, Shirley Knight, Angela Lansbury: Drama: Warner Bros.; from William Inge play