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Article: In decline. (the Ku Klux Klan, includes related article on skinheads)
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1990
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IT HAD all the trappings of low comedy. Timothy Sherman Hall-otherwise known as J. D.' Calhoun, chief recruiter for the Texas Ku Klux Klan-persuaded his colleagues David White and Charlene Moore to join his hate group. At some point, Miss Moore became annoyed at her two male colleagues and told their boss, who fired them. KKK members have secret identities, so the hate hierarchy suspected Miss Moore, since only she would have known both their true identities; it sent her membership application to her boss at work, who promptly sent her packing as well. The collective boss of these three was the sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, Mr Don Carpenter, the top elected law officer ...