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  • SOURCE: Jacobin
    7/27/2021

    The KKK was also a Bosses' Organization

    by Chad Pearson

    While the membership of the Reconstruction-era Klan was broad, its leadership was drawn from the Southern elite, whose vision of white supremacy was inseparable from the exploitation of Black labor. 

  • SOURCE: Harvard Crimson
    3/25/2021

    The Crimson Klan

    Harvard's administration treated the burning of a cross on Harvard Yard in 1952 as a "prank" and threatened Black students with disciplinary action if they described the incident to the press. A student journalist's research shows that the incident was not out of step with the university's practices in the 20th century. 

  • SOURCE: Washington Post
    2/7/2021

    A Century Ago, White Protestant Extremism Marched on Washington

    "There still has to be a reckoning within white Christian churches about white supremacy. There need to be very careful conversations about this, not as, 'Individuals are prejudiced,' but about, 'This is the system that we all inhabit'."

  • SOURCE: The Washington Post
    10-23-18

    VA official showcased portrait of KKK’s first grand wizard

    A senior official at the Department of Veterans Affairs said he removed a portrait of the Ku Klux Klan’s first grand wizard from his Washington, D.C., office after offended employees began signing a petition to present to VA Secretary Robert Wilkie.