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Article: Again, The Ku Klux Klan Is Getting Its Obituary
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- The New York Beacon
- Article date:
- January 6, 1995
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Jules Loh
New York Beacon, The
01-06-1995
Again, The Ku Klux Klan Is Getting Its Obituary.
Call it a year-end epilogue to the 30th anniversary observance of Freedom Summer. Or call it a final belated triumph of the Civil Rights Movement. Or call it simply a long-delayed funeral notice.
The Ku Klux Klan is dead.
Twice before over the past century the Klan has seemed to have vanished from the national scene, missing and presumed dead. Both times its hooded head rose from the cold ashes of burnt crosses and returned to burn and flog and kill again.
This time, owing to changes in the national fabric now viewed as irrevocable, a Ku Klux Klan obituary seems beyond speculation.
There remains in ...