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Jun 3, 2024 · His death removes a Greatest Generation legislator — and also a former Ku Klux Klan member — from the Senate. The loss will be trifold one: a historical one (Byrd’s term was historical and...
3 days ago · FILE - President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and former President Bill Clinton attend at a memorial service for Sen. Robert Byrd, July 2, 2010, at the Capitol in.
2 days ago · Two children wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and hoods stand on either side of Samuel Green, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, at Stone Mountain, Georgia, on July 24, 1948. In some states, such as Alabama and California, KKK chapters had worked for political reform.
Jun 8, 2024 · Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.V., died July 5, after serving more than 50 years in the U.S. Senate. Byrd was 92 when he died, but in the 1940s, he was a member of the Klan - a fact that the AP's...
Jun 14, 2024 · Ghosts of Segregation photographically explores the vestiges of America’s racism as seen in the vernacular landscape: Schools for “colored” children, theatre entrances and restrooms for “colored people,” lynching sites, juke joints, jails, hotels and bus stations. What is past is prologue.
Jun 17, 2024 · David Duke, former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and a Louisiana State Representative from 1989 to 1992, was spotted at a protest outside Turning Point USA’s People’s Convention...
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3 days ago · On June 10, 1964, Dirksen’s strategy was put to test. Immediately after the original House bill was brought forward for Senate debate and consideration, West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Robert Byrd launched a speech in opposition. That speech lasted over fourteen hours.
