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Article: How the South outgrew the Klan: A Klansman's conviction in a 1963 bombing points up the KKK's pariah status. But other hate groups take root.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- May 4, 2001
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Byline: Kris Axtman Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. -- They still cause uproar when they apply for a permit for a street march. They stir outrage when they ask to adopt a roadside-cleanup project or sponsor a National Public Radio broadcast.
But that may be the main signature of the Ku Klux Klan today - publicity stunts.
The group that was formed in the lingering animus after the Civil War is today a wisp of its former self - particularly in the South.
This week's guilty verdict of former Klansman Thomas Blanton Jr. in a 1963 church-bombing here is largely a symbolic blow to the KKK, but the case is ...