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Ex-Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen, a Baptist preacher, received a 60-year prison sentence after being convicted of triple manslaughter for plotting the June 1964 slayings of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, three civil rights workers registering Black voters in Mississippi.
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USA Today, 9 June 2026
Their arrival came as a Ku Klux Klansman sat on the Gary City Council, and segregation was the de facto law of the land.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Back in 1991, the Louisiana governor’s race came down to Ku Klux Klansman David Duke and convicted criminal Edwin Edwards.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 June 2024
In 2002, a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Cherry on four counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of four Black girls in a church bombing in 1963.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024
The email included an image of a Ku Klux Klansman giving a Nazi salute.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
In 1991, Louisiana faced a troubling prospect: neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had made it to the runoff in the race for governor.
—Staff Report, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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USA Today, 9 June 2026
Their arrival came as a Ku Klux Klansman sat on the Gary City Council, and segregation was the de facto law of the land.
—Carole Carlson, Chicago Tribune, 5 Sep. 2025
Back in 1991, the Louisiana governor’s race came down to Ku Klux Klansman David Duke and convicted criminal Edwin Edwards.
—Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 June 2024
In 2002, a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Cherry on four counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of four Black girls in a church bombing in 1963.
—Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024
The email included an image of a Ku Klux Klansman giving a Nazi salute.
—Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022
In 1991, Louisiana faced a troubling prospect: neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had made it to the runoff in the race for governor.
—Staff Report, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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