May 15, 2011
The Modern-Day Ku Klux Klan
Text and Photographs
The Chronicle of Higher Education
By James Edward Bates
I grew up in McComb, Miss., one of the main battlegrounds of the civil-rights struggle in this country. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee held its first voter-registration drive there, in 1961; during the Freedom Summer of 1964, the Ku Klux Klan firebombed so many black homes and churches that McComb came to be known as “the bombing capital of the world.”
Even during the years of my childhood, in the 80s and 90s, there was considerable racial tension between blacks and whites, who still were largely segregated, living in different parts of town. I remember African-Americans holding boycotts, and I would hear of neighborhoods that white police officers tried to avoid, to keep from having their patrol-car windows knocked out by flying bricks…..
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