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Article: Council members collide in heated clash over Muslim-KKK remarks
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- February 19, 1994
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M.R. Cheshire
Baltimore Afro-American
02-19-1994
Council members collide in heated clash over Muslim-KKK remarks.
By M.R. Cheshire
AFRO Staff Writer
Councilwoman Rochelle "Rikki" Spector crashed a Baltimore City Council African American Coalition press conference called to demand an apology from her for making statements equating the Nation of Islam with the Ku Klux Klan this week, and set off more fireworks.
The City Council members called the conference after their fellow member, Ms. Spector, referring to Nation of Islam Security Inc., was reported on Feb. 16 to have said: "It is like someone hiring the Ku Klux Klan to guard a senior citizens center."
As Melvin L. Stukes, coalition chairman, ...