82 Friday September 21, 1919
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Ku Klux Klan A Dying Movement
or Growing Threat to Civil Rights?
Wishing Our Friends -
A Happy, Healthy & Prosperous
NEW YEAR
Peter, Shirley Heiman & Children
By VICTOR M.
BIENSTOCK
(A Seven Arts Feature)
N. N.
Mel & Inez Kepes
Wish All Their Relatives and Friends
A Happy, Healthy, Prosperous
NEW YEAR
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THE RADOMER AID SOCIETY
Wish All Their Members and Friends
A Happy,. Healthy and Prosperous New Year
Nate Wolok, pres.
Helen Greenberg, 2nd vice pres.
Rita Ager, 1st vice-pres.
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To Our
Relatives. & Friends
We wish you
A Very Happy,
Healthy & Peaceful
The Klan has lost its
biggest '"clout" throughout
the South — the active
sympathy and covert sup-
port of city and county offi-
cials, although small-town
and rural officials are still
to be found in the ranks of
the Klan.
Look what happened to
the sweating, pooped-out
Klansmen whom Imperial
Wizard Bill Wilkinson led
on a march from Selma to
Montgomery in emulation
of the civil rights march the
late Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr., led in 1965.
Wilkinson said he would
parade his hooded followers
through Montgomery to a
demonstration in front of
the Alabama state capital.
The Montgomery officials
said: "No."
When the Klansmen
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tried to continue their become a way of life for But now, they'te not just
march, they were stop- its members, a substitute talking."
ped at the city limits, for the traditional frater-
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searched for weapons, nal lodges and social
disarmed and some 200 clubs. The wives of
arrested. In addition to Klansmen have their
clubs, knives, handguns, "ladies auxiliary" and
shotguns and carbines, their own insignia. Some
the confiscated weapons of the kids go to Klan
included a Thompson camps to be taught ka-
Best Wishes Foy A'
rate and use of the rifle
submachine gun.
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and
to
be
given
indoctri-
It is doubtful if, as re-
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cently as 10 years ago, the nation lessons on "what it
MR. AND MRS.
Montgomery authorities means to be white."
HYMAN BLUMENSTEIN
would have dared to deal as
How serious is die Klan
firmly with Klansmen. It is threat? In Alabama alone,
AND FAMILY
a sign of the times that a some 20 Klansmen face fed-
Montgomery police chief eral charges of civil rights
Wishing All My Friends
told a Klan leader to shut up violations. J.R. Brooks, the
and Relatives A Very
and remember he was under federal attorney in Bir-
Healthy and Happy
arrest.
mingham, doesn't dismiss
New Year
It is doubtful indeed that the Klan lightly. "For
SULAMIS (SHULA)
a Montgomery mayor — or years," he says, "they, the
GOLDOFTAS AND FAMILY
any Alabama mayor — ex- Klan, did a lot of talking.
hibiting the submachine
gun, would have said as did
Best Wishes for a Happy and Healthy
Mayor Emory M. Folmar
NEW YEAR
before the TV cameras:
Mr.
and
Mrs.
Asa Shapiro and Family
"That's for only one pur-
pose, killing people. This be-
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Klan that their purpose
here was peaceful expres-
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sion."
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
It is another sign of the
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change in the South that the
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rituals of the Klan no longer
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terrify the blacks as they
once did. The blacks have
not hesitated to stand up to
To Our Customers and Friends
Klan threats, even when
A Happy and Prosperous
they involved armed con-
frontation as they did last
spring in Decatur, Ala.,
where the Klan is probably
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stronger than in any other
Southern city.
Decatur escaped most
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of the racial violence of
the '60s, but hundreds of
workers have come in
from the North to take
jobs in the new factories
there and racial tensions
have been aggravated by
and Best Wishes
the rape-murder trial of a
retarded black youth.
To All Our Friends & Relatives
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference,
a militant black civil
rights organization,
stands up strongly
against the Klan for the
civil rights of the blacks.
Research by the Southern
Regional Council has estab-
lished that most of the Klan
activities reported today are
FROM SAM & DORIT FLATT
in areas such as Decatur
that escaped the racial tur-
bulence of the '60s. A dis-
and LITTLE DONNA
turbing note is that most
prosecutions of Klansmen
Wishing all our friends and relatives the best of
for violating the civil rights
of others come from the fed-
eral, not state, authorities.
everything for this
Paradoxically, the FBI,
which amassed the evidence
that smashed Klan power in
the '60s, is handicapped now
by restrictions on the
gathering of domestic in-
telligence promulgated
after disclosure that the FBI
itself was abusing civil
rights in its surveillance of
'May The Coming Year
liberal and leftwing organ-
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izations and individuals.
It seems, too, that in
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many outlying areas where
law enforcement officials
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are a law unto themselves,
not a few are themselves
affiliated with the Klan.
The Klan, particularly
in the small towns, has
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