Ku Klux Klan

A special commission is reviewing military assets with names tied to the Confederacy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as well as other properties across the country.

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A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point

3:07pm August 31, 2022

by Joe Hernandez

The marker, depicting a hooded figure, was highlighted in a recent report by a special commission looking into U.S. military assets with names tied to the Confederacy.

Autherine Lucy Foster reacts during the dedication ceremony for Autherine Lucy Foster Hall in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 25, 2022.

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First Black University of Alabama student dies days after a building is named for her

6:07pm March 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

Autherine Lucy Foster's death comes less than a week after university officials dedicated the campus building where she briefly attended classes in her honor.

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First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan leader

8:32pm February 04, 2022

by The Associated Press

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier this month. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots, according to inve

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Army vet risked his life to expose who was in the KKK

7:04am December 22, 2021

by The Associated Press

Joseph Moore wore a wire for the FBI under his white robe.

Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric."

Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

9:08pm September 30, 2020

by Vanessa Romo

"There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

Reflecting On The Greensboro Massacre 40 Years Later

5:16pm October 31, 2019

by David Ford

This weekend during the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Greensboro Massacre, people will gather over a three-day conference to celebrate the lives of those lost through music, theatre, and dance. They'll also explore the root causes and community responses to right-wing violence — then and now.

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Freedom's Detective: The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror, by Charles Lane

In 'Freedom's Detective,' A Flawed But Remarkable Hiram Whitley Infiltrates The KKK

11:49am April 11, 2019

by Michael Schaub

Journalist Charles Lane's account is endlessly gripping — and he does an excellent job of placing the operation in historical context, chronicling racism and resentment in the South post-Civil War.

In 1949, Ku Klux Klan members ride down a street in Gadsden, Ala., as part of an 18-car parade.

Publisher Of An Alabama Newspaper Calls For The KKK To 'Clean Out' Washington

7:56pm February 19, 2019

by Sasha Ingber

"We'll get the hemp ropes out, loop them over a tall limb and hang all of them," said Goodloe Sutton, publisher of the Democrat-Reporter, after admitting he wrote an incendiary editorial.

Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, accompanied by his wife, Pam, speaks during a news conference on Saturday. Northam has resisted widespread calls for his resignation.

More Democrats Press Va. Gov. Ralph Northam To Resign

6:11pm February 03, 2019

Northam has so far resisted widespread calls for him to step down after the revelation of a racist photo on his 1984 medical yearbook page.

Pressure has mounted on Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam to resign after publication of a racist yearbook photo.

Va. Gov. Ralph Northam Defies Calls To Resign, Doesn't Recall Being In Racist Photo

8:06pm February 02, 2019

"I do not believe that I am either of the people in the photo," Gov. Northam said of the image, which shows two individuals, one dressed in blackface, and another as a member of the Ku Klux Klan.