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Article: KU KLUX KLAN HITTING BOTTOM MORALE, INTEREST ARE LOW.(Perspective)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- October 11, 1987
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Byline: Strat Douthat
Once a mighty Southern institution whose hooded members staged gruesome lynchings and hob-nobbed with powerful politicians, the Ku Klux Klan has fallen on hard times in the land of its birth.
Klan watchers across the South, and even KKK members themselves, say the so-called "invisible empire" is at its lowest ebb in decades. They largely attribute the Klan's dwindling influence and shrinking membership to the federal government's legal campaign against racial violence and a rash of successful civil suits filed on behalf of KKK victims.
The Klan's most crushing setback came in February when an all-white jury in Mobile, ...