Ku Klux Klan

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/27/19
  

  White Supremacism in the U.S. Military, Explained

  For much of the 20th century, the Ku Klux Klan actively recruited members in the armed forces without hindrance. 

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• SOURCE: USA Today
  2/21/19
  

  Blackface, KKK hoods and mock lynchings: Review of 900 yearbooks finds blatant racism

  In one of the most extensive searches of college yearbooks ever, we found blackface and Ku Klux Klan photos like Ralph Northam's far beyond Virginia.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/16/19
  

  The lengthy history of white politicians wearing blackface — and getting a pass

  The history of blackface in American politics is wide and deep, frequently creating little more than a ripple of outrage for the mayors, state legislators and gubernatorial candidates caught on camera darkening their skin and caricaturing black people.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/19/19
  

  ‘Time for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again’: An Alabama newspaper editor wants to bring back lynching

  “If we could get the Klan to go up there and clean out D.C., we’d all been better off,” he told the paper, explaining, “We’ll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them.”

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  2/8/19
  

  Peter Wallenstein Talks About Why White Supremacy “Must Die and Yet Will Not Die”

  Professor Peter Wallenstein explains how the present mess in Virginia connects to the state’s past.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  2/4/19
  

  Red Dead Redemption 2 Confronts the U.S.’s Racist Past and Lets You Do Something About It

  by Jonathon S. Jones

  Poke around the game’s fictional South and you’ll find cross-burning Klansmen, whom you are free to kill.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/7/19
  

  Why Won’t Blackface Go Away? It’s Part of America’s Troubled Cultural Legacy

  by Wil Haygood

  For more than 180 years, racist stereotypes have been used to entertain.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/6/19
  

  A Racial Reckoning for Democratic Leaders in Virginia

  by Jelani Cobb

  In disavowing his yearbook photo but admitting to wearing blackface on another occasion, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam implies that he is being castigated for the wrong instance of minstrelsy.

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• SOURCE: WHYY.org
  2/5/19
  

  Why we keep looking at the Northam photo

  by Johnathon Zimmerman

  Because we all know — in our hearts — that racism is America’s original sin. 

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  2/4/19
  

  Eric Lott on Ralph Northam and the History of Blackface

  by Isaac Chotiner

  In an interview, Eric Lott discusses the subject of blackface and its historical role in American politics, culture, and racism.

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• 2/4/19
  

  What Historians Are Saying: Ralph Northam, Blackface, and the KKK

  Historians contextualized the Virginia governor's yearbook photos--and had a lot to say. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/2/19
  

  The troubling history behind Ralph Northam’s blackface Klan photo

  by Rhae Lynn Barnes

  How blackface shaped Virginia politics and culture for more than a century.

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• SOURCE: Process History
  1/24/19
  

  #MeToo, Networks of Complicity, and the 1920s Klan

  by Mara Keire

  The Klan’s extensive networks of patriarchal power enabled abusive men to prey on women. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/22/19
  

  ‘BlacKkKlansman’: How black detective Ron Stallworth infiltrated the Colorado Klan

  The true story behind the Oscar-nominated film.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/16/19
  

  How the Klan Fueled Prohibition

  by Lisa McGirr

  The 1920s weren’t just gin joints and jazz. Anti-immigrant racism was all the rage.

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• SOURCE: Snopes
  Accessed 1/16/19
  

  Snopes: Did Clifford Walker Say at a 1924 KKK Rally That He Would Build a ‘Wall of Steel’ Against Immigrants?

  The quote spread across the Internet, stripped of its context and in meme form, prompting some readers to query whether the quote and its description were real.

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• SOURCE: Salon
  1/10/19
  

  Presidential historian Jon Meacham links Donald Trump's border wall rhetoric to Ku Klux Klan

  Trump's televised address was reportedly written by aide Stephen Miller, known for his hardline immigration views.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  6-15-18
  

  Australian university students dress as Ku Klux Klan and in blackface

  Charles Sturt University investigates ‘politically incorrect’ themed student party.

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• SOURCE: Journal Sentinel
  4-19-18
  

  University of Wisconsin, Madison to reckon with Ku Klux Klan history, but won't remove KKK member names from buildings

  A Klan group formed as an interfraternity society in 1919 included student body leaders Porter Butts and Fredric March, whose names are prominently displayed in the Memorial Union.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-15-18
  

  How social media spread a historical lie

  A mix of journalistic mistakes and partisan hackery advanced a pernicious lie about Democrats and the Klan.