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Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /1

Voice of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1923 

By 1923 Minnesota was home to a reported 51 chapters of the KKK with over 30,000 members, though many were not active.

mnhs.org/newspapers/hub…
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /2

“The Ku Klux Klan in Minnesota."

home to 51 KKK chapters, she writes many “joined what is clearly perceived as a violent hate group today, as it was in its beginnings following the Civil War.”

duluthnewstribune.com/2454381-kkk-mi…
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /3

In its heyday in the 1920s, the Klu Klux Klan had chapters chartered in cities thru-out the region,including Waseca,Kenyon,Dodge Center &Rochester
..less focused on oppressing blacks than Catholics, Jews, foreigners..

mprnews.org/story/2010/01/…
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /4

Terrorizing in plain sight: A Twin Cities history lesson must not repeat itself
..in 1917..hundreds of men &women wearing robes of the KKK rode from Minneapolis thru St. Paul..as part of a much-celebrated car parade?

minnpost.com/community-voic…
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /6

Institutionalized racism worse than KKK
“I am less scared of Klansmen in public masquerade than I am of the..senators &reps in Congress wearing business suits who have roots in the Klan and the White Citizens Council”

mndaily.com/205926/uncateg…
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /7

BROWN SHIRTS w/swastika arm bands stood..on steps of state Capitol waving Nazi &Confederate flags. Members of Nat’l Knights of the Ku Klux Klan &the Nat’l Socialist Movement took turns..calling for a pure white race.
news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/20010… Image
Ku Klux Klan Never Left Minnesota /8

150 Years of Human Rights: 1914-1941

1920 DULUTH LYNCHINGS
In 1920, in an event that would shock the nation, three young black men, wrongly accused of rape, were lynched by a mob in Duluth, Minnesota.

mn.gov/mdhr/news-comm… Image

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White Nationalists Inundate American Law Enforcement /1

Affiliation with Right Wing organizations should disqualify police candidates.

Dismantling White Supremacist Infiltration of the Military and Law Enforcement

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White Nationalists Inundate American Law Enforcement /2

White supremacists 'seek affiliation' with law enforcement to further their goals, internal FBI report warns
Racially motivated extremists want to "develop new tactics," the document says.

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White Nationalists Inundate American Law Enforcement /3

CAPITOL ATTACK UNDERSCORES WHITE SUPREMACIST INFILTRATION OF POLICE, MILITARY

Radicalization of law enforcement forces &military signals deep extremism—steeped in racism &anti-gov’t convictions

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Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests
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Sen. Manchin Maintains Lucrative Ties to Family-Owned Coal Company

On his financial disclosures for 2009 and 2010, Manchin reported significant earnings from Enersystems Inc., a coal brokerage

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Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /2

Legal Documents Show Manchin Has Stakes in Companies That Pay Less Than $15 an Hour
Senator's Opposition to the $15 Hourly Minimum Wage Benefits His Undisclosed Financial Interests

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Joe Manchin Votes His Own Interests /3

What the Media Are Missing About Joe Manchin
The senator has skillfully managed his image, to stay viable in a state that went from a Democratic to a Republican majority.

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21 Mar
#IDedicateThisWeekTo Isadora Duncan, an American dancer who performed to great acclaim throughout Europe. Born &raised in CA, she lived &danced in Western Europe &the Soviet Union.
She believed dance was meant to encircle all that life had to offer—joy and sadness. Image
So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.
Isadora Duncan Image
The wind? I am the wind. The sea and the moon? I am the sea and the moon. Tears, pain, love, bird-flights? I am all of them. I dance what I am. Sin, prayer, flight, the light that never was on land or sea? I dance what I am.
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14 Mar
#IDedicateThisWeekTo Elizabeth Van Lew &Mary Bowser,a freed slave who posed as Jefferson Davis’s servant,worked together to bring down political fixtures of the South from the inside out.
Bowser,w/her photographic memory &incredible acting skills,was able to relay critical intel. ImageImage
Elizabeth Van Lew freed one of her family's slaves& sent her North to be educated.The young woman returned to Richmond and was placed in the Confederate White House as part of Van Lew's spy ring. Van Lew's diary describes her reliance on an AfAm referred to only as Mary.j ImageImage
Confederate leaders could tell there was a mole in the highest reaches of the Confederacy, but nobody ever figured out it was Mary. In his letters, Jefferson Davis complains that his mental state is collapsing under the strain of not being able to find the spy. Image
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END THE FILIBUSTER /1
The Civil Rights Act could not be passed until a 60 day filibuster was ended by a 2/3 vote of The Senate.

The Civil Rights Act provided protection of voting rights;banned discrimination in public facilities, and public services.
senate.gov/artandhistory/…
END THE FILIBUSTER /2

Georgia Democrat Richard Russell offered the final arguments in opposition. Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who had enlisted the Republican votes that made cloture a realistic option, spoke for the proponents with his customary eloquence.
END THE FILIBUSTER /3
“Stronger than all the armies is an idea whose time has come..
The time has come for equality of opportunity in sharing in government, in education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here!"
Everett Dirksen quoting Victor Hugo
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#IDedicateThisWeekTo Bob Moses, American educator & civil rights activist,known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education &registration in MS during the Civil Rights Movement &his co-founding of the MS Freedom Democratic Party. Image
Well, I don't think that the Democratic Party to this day has confronted the issue of bringing into its ranks the kind of people that were represented by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. That is the real underclass of this country.

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When you’re in Mississippi, the rest of America doesn’t seem real and when you’re out in the rest of America, Mississippi doesn’t seem real.
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