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While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions 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]
Ira Bowman Thompson (April 9, 1889 – August 10, 1973) was a politician, Ku Klux Klan leader, and attorney from the U.S. state of Alabama.. Thompson was born to Albert and Laura (née Crabtree) Thompson at Bay Minette, Alabama in 1889. [1]
Sessions's office filed civil rights charges in the 1981 killing of Michael Donald, a young African American man who was murdered in Mobile, Alabama, by a pair of Ku Klux Klan members. [14] [15] Sessions's office did not prosecute the case, as homicide is prosecuted by the state government, but both men were arrested and convicted. [16]
John Harold Merrill (born November 12, 1963) is an American politician who served as the 53rd secretary of state of Alabama from 2015 to 2023. He served in the Alabama House of Representatives from 2010 to 2014. Merrill is a member of the Republican Party.
Alabama State University has removed the name of a Klan leader from a building on its campus and replaced it The post Alabama State strips name of Klan member from dorm, renames it for boycott ...
A bronze plaque at West Point, the United States Military Academy, shows a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” underneath, according to a congressional commission’s report.
The building on the Montgomery campus had featured the name of KKK member and former governor Bibb Graves since 1928. Ku Klux Klan leader’s name stripped from Alabama State University residence hall