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 c•.,4004*-)(00 0 ;e0.x• .,r0.,.-4J )c0x-0,c0-,c0J,-0J 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. - 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 New Year Greetings From BESSINGER'S designs 23535 Woodward, Ferndale NEW YEAR Danny & Yetta Weintraub New Year Greetings BLUESTEIN BROS. . Deolers in Scrop Mot,2riols 3195 BELLEVUE WA 2-2720 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- New Year Greetings 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. Happy and Healthy and to be given indoctri- It is doubtful if, as re- New Yeor 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- ASA BUILDERS SUPPLY CO. 624-7400 lies the intentions of the Walled Lake, Mich. Klan that their purpose here was peaceful expres- Wishing Our Friends & Customers sion." A HAPPY NEW YEAR It is another sign of the MIDWEST FIRE ADJUSTERS change in the South that the Allen C. Gross robes, paraphernalia and 18911 W. 10 Mile Rd., Suite 100, S'field rituals of the Klan no longer 569.1488 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 Thank you for patronizing us. stronger than in any other Southern city. Decatur escaped most Charles & Wela Upfal 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- 13e Filled With izations and individuals. It seems, too, that in Peace, Health and Happiness many outlying areas where law enforcement officials ARM]) and DOROTin . II. 1BLit are a law unto themselves, not a few are themselves affiliated with the Klan. The Klan, particularly in the small towns, has MR. and MRS. J. BERKOWITZ NEW YEAR! Th e UPFAL ELECT. 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