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Aug 9, 2019 · Viral image. By Ciara O'Rourke August 15, 2019. Robert Byrd wasn’t a Grand Wizard of the KKK but he once led a local chapter. An old photograph of former Vice President Joe Biden has been...
- The Claim: Joe Biden and A Grand Wizard of The KKK Were Photographed Together
- Byrd Was Not A KKK Grand Wizard — But He Did Once Lead A Chapter
- Byrd's Record on Race
- Our Ruling: Partly False
- Our Fact-Check Sources
A photocirculating on Facebook and Instagram claims to depict former Vice President Joe Biden with a grand wizard of the KKK. “Biden with Grand wizard Of KKK. So who again is playing you, lying to you, using you for the votes, Creators of the KKK, opposed civil right of blacks. Yup that’s the Democratic party,” the text above the image reads. The i...
This pictureof Biden and Byrd was taken by the Associated Press in October 2008 at a campaign rally in Charleston, West Virginia, during the time that Biden was running for vice president alongside then-Sen. Barack Obama. Byrd grew up in West Virginia, which is where he got involved with the KKK. “Many of the ‘best’ people were members — even senat...
Still, throughout his career, his record on race was mixed. Byrd filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act alongside other Southern Democrats, personally speaking on the floor for 14 hours. Hevoted in favorof the 1968 Civil Rights Act, however. "Senator Byrd reflects the transformative power of this nation," then-NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous ...
We rate the claim that Biden was photographed with a grand wizard of the KKK to be PARTLY FALSE because some of it was not supported by our research. Byrd, the alleged grand wizard, in fact, was not one. However, he was the leader of a chapter of the KKK briefly by his own admission and was involved the KKK " throughout much of the 1940s," accordin...
Sep 28, 2017 · Robert Byrd Consorts With a KKK Grand Dragon. One Saturday in the 1920s, a small boy named Robert Byrd stood at a second-floor window in Matoaka, W.Va., and watched wide-eyed as a parade of men, including his adoptive father, marched past in white robes, white hoods and white masks. They were local members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Oct 7, 2020 · Social media users have been sharing content online that claims Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden eulogized Robert Byrd, asserting he was the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)....
Jun 17, 2020 · Social media users have been sharing a photograph online and claiming that it shows Senator Robert Byrd as the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The photograph does not portray Byrd.
Jun 18, 2020 · However the man in the photo, US Senator Robert Byrd, was a member and supporter of the KKK in the 1940’s before renouncing his membership and offering an apology many years before this photo was taken.
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Jun 19, 2005 · Transformation into leader of Senate. Historians, political analysts and admirers have long sought to reconcile Byrd's early Klan affiliation with his image as a pillar of the Senate. More...
