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News Articles: Ku Klux Klan

Chris Buckley (left) and Heval Kelli are the subjects of the new film, "Refuge."

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In new documentary 'Refuge,' empathy overcomes racism

A new documentary film set in Georgia explores how racial hatred can be unlearned through empathy. GPB's Peter Biello spoke with the filmmakers.

March 23, 2023
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  • Peter Biello

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: As antisemitism goes mainstream, a look at the Jewish history of Georgia

Friday on Political Rewind: On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazi Party. But disturbingly, antisemitism is once again being mainstreamed in our politics. Our special panel explores Georgia's Jewish history, marked with both hope and violence.

January 27, 2023
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By:
  • Bill Nigut and
  • Chase McGee
Author John Pruitt and his latest novel, Tell It True

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Author, anchor John Pruitt documents a Klan-involved murder in 'Tell It True'

Friday on Political Rewind: In 1964, two Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, a Black veteran, near the Broad River Bridge in Athens. John Pruitt, then a 22-year-old cameraman for WSB-TV, covered the case. He documents that experience in his novel Tell It True.

October 07, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A special commission is reviewing military assets with names tied to the Confederacy at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point as well as other properties across the country.

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A plaque with the words 'Ku Klux Klan' still hangs on a building at West Point

The marker, depicting a hooded figure, was highlighted in a recent report by a special commission looking into U.S. military assets with names tied to the Confederacy.

September 01, 2022
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Autherine Lucy Foster reacts during the dedication ceremony for Autherine Lucy Foster Hall in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Feb. 25, 2022.

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  • National

First Black University of Alabama student dies days after a building is named for her

Autherine Lucy Foster's death comes less than a week after university officials dedicated the campus building where she briefly attended classes in her honor.

March 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
GPB News NPR

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First Black University of Alabama student to share a building name with a Klan leader

A University of Alabama building will share the names of a Klan leader and its first Black student

February 07, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Joseph Moore stands for a portrait at a park in Jacksonville, Fla., earlier this month. Moore worked for nearly 10 years as an undercover informant for the FBI, infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in Florida, foiling at least two murder plots, according to investigators, and investigating ties between law enforcement and the white supremacist organization.

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  • National

Army vet risked his life to expose who was in the KKK

Joseph Moore wore a wire for the FBI under his white robe.

December 22, 2021
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  • The Associated Press
Bombing victim Sarah Collins Rudolph, pictured in 2013, argues that Ku Klux Klan members who attacked the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala., in 1963 were "inspired and motivated by then-Gov. [George] Wallace's racist rhetoric."

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Alabama Gov. Apologizes To Surviving '5th Girl' Of 1963 KKK Bombing

"There should be no question that Ms. Collins Rudolph and the families of those who perished ... suffered an egregious injustice that has yielded untold pain and suffering over the ensuing decades."

September 30, 2020
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo

On Second Thought For Thursday, April 5, 2018

The U.S. Supreme Court issued its historic ruling Brown v. the Board of Education more than six decades ago. Linda Brown, the namesake of that landmark...

April 09, 2018
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  • Sean Powers ,
  • Tony Harris ,
  • and 5 more
Journalist Robert Coram writes about life in small rural town in Georgia in his new memoir, "Gully Dirt: On Exposing the Klan, Raising a Hog, and Escaping the South."

Robert Coram On Exposing The Klan, Raising A Hog, and And Escaping The South

We talked with Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist Robert Coram , who is used to writing about other people’s lives. He’s written a number of...

March 14, 2017
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
A sign posted on the Butler Building in Dahlonega, Ga.

Commuity Protests KKK Sign In Dahlonega

A sign claiming that the Butler Building in Dahlonega, Georgia is a “Historic Ku Klux Klan Meeting Hall” has the community in an uproar. Klan and...

February 22, 2017
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By:
  • Najae Lamar
Chris Buckley (left) of the Grand Knighthawk for the North Georgia White Knights and peace activist Arno Michaelis (right) in a scene from the now canceled A&E series,  Escaping the KKK: A Documentary Series Exposing Hate in America.

Should The Media Personalize Hate Groups?

Last month, the A&E Network canceled a documentary series about the Ku Klux Klan. The series, which featured Klan members in North Georgia, was...

January 25, 2017
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
Julian Harris was editor and co-owner of the Columbus Enquirer-Sun. He and his wife, Julia, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1926 for their reporting on the  Ku Klux Klan.

Pulitzer Peaches: Columbus Sun-Enquirer

The Columbus Sun-Enquirer was the first Southern newspaper to win the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1926. The award recognized the work of the...

July 06, 2016
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By:
  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Linda Chen
GPB News NPR

Ku Klux Klan Can Continue Efforts To Adopt A Georgia Highway

The Supreme Court of Georgia has decided the Ku Klux Klan can continue their efforts to adopt a highway in north Georgia. The justices ruled unanimously...

July 06, 2016
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By:
  • Sam Whitehead

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