that was the klan people think of. that klan was classically anti-black in the south but it was anti-mexican on the border. it was at the immigrant in the northeast to do a lot of immigrants come in. there was anti-labor in the northwest was a lot of union activity, a lot of anti-catholic in notre -- in indian were notre dame was. so that is the mode that we would expect i think to say. >> i came in late so i want to say sorry for that but i want to ask a few questions. i'm from the caribbean, grew up in -- the question, how do you see these movements ask because even when i was in the netherlands, i mean, -- [inaudible] at the end type of a type in the netherlands you could start to see issues of this and i remember once, i went to law school at university of italy, giving a talk there when i said guys, i was speaking about white european people, if you are, do not confront and she was a confront because clear you're becoming more and more minority at the point in time, nowhere close to where it is now but it was, imm

south carolina state troopers protecting the klan members as they walked up to the capitol it was it was surreal you know so but i saw the reports on the t.v. on t.v. afterwards and it made it seem like it was equal parts klan equal parts kind of like this is a huge problem yeah there are there. these are far as i was concerned i didn't see a huge claim it was very small numbers but these are the media exactly trying to rate the bogeyman if you hear of oh look at these neo nazis look at these you know confederate klansmen that are running around and you know it's rioting in our america whereas you know as you said as you point out actually they were a tiny minority tiny compared to the had to be protected most people it was really almost almost felt sorry for the. rights so yeah my my experience was that the. that that segment see who i was as the proportion of conservatives who hold those kinds of views is very small and i didn't experience that in any of my eighty interviews now to be fair there was this was not a very scientific study you know like a statistician would be horrifie

a lot of people today associate it with the klan. more important was this moment in birmingham in 1948 in july when the dixiecrat party was born and nominated strom thurmond for president, a breakaway from the democratic party re-nominating harry truman. they had embraced a strong civil rights form. it was just starting to emerge as a popular culture symbol and was merged with white supremacy. in the auditorium, you see a lot of young faces because a good delegates at the convention were college students from the south where they were accustomed to waving the flag as a symbol of football as well as kappa alpha. they brought it on to the convention floor. this photo made it the symbol of reactionary politics. it was not the party but the young supporters who made it a symbol. it made it a political symbol. it kind of makes sense. the last time the federal government interfered with the southern way of life, slavery, this was the flag of opposition used the army's the cap the confederacy alive. the government is throwing its weight beh

organized inally the way that many people understand ku klux klan violent.s mostly in the south, it's mostly anti-black and oriented against the intrusion of the federal government into the battles against integration in the south. what i'm looking at is a more ideologically diverse movement in the 80's that brought together people who had been in n.e third kla i'm lolooking at the unification protesters, people who follow white supremacists ideologies, and skinheads organized around the story of the vietnam war. character from the third klan. it was organized during leaderless resistance. what we now think of as self silent terrorism, you can organize a smaller number of activists so that they can be infiltrated or prosecuted. the bible that be the turner diaries? >> absolutely. it's a utopian novel. it lays out how a strategy like this could work to take on the highly militarized superstate. amy: professor, you write about 1979, the shooting of communist protesters in north carolina. the unified paramilitary and white power movement activist, can you expla

a lot of people today associate it with the klan. more important was this moment in birmingham in 1948 in july when the dixiecrat party was born and nominated strom thurmond for president, a breakaway from the democratic party re-nominating harry truman. they had embraced a strong civil rights form. it was just starting to emerge as a popular culture symbol and was merged with white supremacy. in the auditorium, you see a lot of young faces because a good delegates at the convention were college students from the south where they were accustomed to waving the flag as a symbol of football as well as kappa alpha. they brought it on to the convention floor. this photo made it the symbol of reactionary politics. it was not the party but the young supporters who made it a symbol. it made it a political symbol. it kind of makes sense. the last time the federal government interfered with the southern way of life, slavery, this was the flag of opposition used the army's the cap the confederacy alive. the government is throwing its weight beh

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senator from alabama who was part of the ku klux klan but today this bridge is known all around the world for the courageous fight that took place here for the right to vote and it is known for that. how we arek about going to help to revitalize the city of selma, you can't pay for the marketing of the fact that the whole world knows about the bridge, not because of who it is named after, but because of the great event that took place there. if you asked most folks who grew up in some a -- grew up in selma , we know about the complicated history. war and that civil civil rights live side-by-side here. we can't change that, we have to learn from the history. it is part of american history and the think it is important that we embrace our history, even the painful parts and tell our own story because it we who are from selma do not tell the history, others will and they may not get it right. they may not see it through the lens of people who grew up in her and understand the complicated nature of its history. we can't change that history, but i think it is important that we learn from it. y

from the mid-50s and the fbi knew everything that the alabama klan was going to do before they ever did it. they knew in advance that there would be an attack on the freedom writers, when viola greg was murdered at the end of the march from selma to montgomery, gary rowe was in the car from which she was shot. the fbi knew the next day what had happened and who had done it because they had an informant right there in the car. there is even a suggestion that rowe himself was the person who fired the shot. very clearly j edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and was an absolute opponent of the movement. with respect to and of course as director of the fbi, he was reported to robert kennedy. often did not pass along the information. of the justice department didn't know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, again ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement but again we have to ask was this leadership or rank-and- file. one of the great moments of the labor movement came in birmingham, alabama

are those artists and i will go and see them immediately did you did you see too much already the klan because we have been effective in going after the lives they like they might of course they might have lied to me again mario who heard of a deal and we were going after the their assets and we've you tell me that there is a huge amount of money that they have outside tell me where they are you have been making a mockery of the peace deal by not declaring these assets well but if you tell me where they are i'm telling you the two hundred twenty discovered were two hundred million and so that's proof that they had line and was there to prove that they have more. but he was actually going to leave wasn't it they've been they've been lied they will lose their benefits what it what did they declare to assets like broomsticks aren't squeezes mugs talcum power and gold money and cattle school of arms this is a peace deal which is an example to the to the rest of the world there's a transitional justice system that for the first time has been. negotiated under the terms of study of rome this

>> i'm just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here?stly, i don't know david duke. >> he says i'm just talking about david duke and the ku klux klan here and you say honestly i don't know david duke. >> let me tell you, i'm sitting in a house in florida with a very bad earpiece they gave me and you could hardly hear what he was saying. >> except he repeated david duke's name in his answer to jake tapper or the president's 360 on who deserved blame in charlottesville. >> we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. on many sides. >> as i said on saturday, we condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence. it has no place in america. >> you had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very vile thean violent and nobo say that. i'll say it right now. >> i think there was blame on both side. >> but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. >> i only tell you this

he exercisedr -- it in a very long limited way in areas of south carolina to roundup people in the klan and allow people to live freely and safely and start enjoying the reconstruction amendments. when we look back on that, one of the questions that should be asked is whether he went far enough because very quickly, the suspension was allowed to lapse and the klan regrouped and went back to its own ways -- old ways. it shows the power of suspension but also its limitations i think. >> grant was very careful exercising his power after congress suspended that. i think the next major conflict which maybein suspension -- the privilege should have been suspended is during world war ii. whichlk about the case in japanese-americans which had been interned were challenging their detention. talk about what was going on in world war ii. did anybody in the government say we should be suspending habeas or maybe this is not constitutional? what were the voices in the government? >> world war ii is a fascinating case story of how all these issues come into conflict. is the wind up with forgotten susp

who club clan -- the ku klux klan and we are going to keep segregation but in a nonviolent and peaceful way. it wasn't the citizens council keeping down the hotheads. the folks are either going along for the ride or they are speaking into a silence where they keep their heads down and don't say anything and so for that period from the late 50s to the early 60s this was mississippi the madhouse then, that is one of the journalists who talked about it, mississippi the society that was written about in 1964 that was happening in alabama and georgia, it was happening across the deep south. so that's what i'm talking about. thank you so much for coming out. this has been a lot of fun. [applause] we recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> first of all i just finished a book, like just last week that was very enjoyable. it's called deadweight cub crossing of the lusitania which is one of the books that led to the united states getting involved in world war i but it was fascinating. i like the writing and i've read one of the books previous

stallworth, the film starsjohn david washington as the black detective who infiltrates the ku klux klant know that i've ever seen a movie exploit its tonal mismatches voraciously and purposefully." judge for yourself when blackkklansman opens here in august. one film you probably won't be seeing in the immediate future is the man who killed don quixote, the long—awaited passion project from terry gilliam, which took a debut bow at cannes amid a heated lawsuit about rights and ownership. if you saw the documentary lost in la mancha about gilliam's previous failed attempt to make this dream project, you can be forgiven for thinking that he would never get it completed — but complete it, he did. and it is vintage gilliam that does not disappoint. i really hope you get to see it in the not—too—distant future. don quixote de la mancha! come to restore the lost age of chivalry! well, i wrote that. blasphemy! a hand of our god in heaven wrote me. can i read? a peasant like you cannot read! i will sound the words and you can look at the pictures. there was much discussion at cannes about the ro

fact, restrained by lyndon johnson, but we now know that the fbi had an informant within the ku klux klan from the mid-'50s. and the fbi knew what they were going to do if they did it. they knew of the attack on the freedom riders in 1965. when viola greg was murdered at the end of the march. gary row was in the car from which she was shot. and the fbi knew the next day what had happened and who had done it because they had an informant right there in the car. and even the suggestion that row himself was the person who fired the shot. so very clearly jay edgar hoover was in bed with the ku klux klan and an absolute opponent with the movement, with respect to, and of course, as director of the fbi, he reported to robert kennedy. but often did not pass along the information, so the justice didn't know know half of what hoover knew. with respect to the labor movement, it is an ambivalent legacy. there were moments when the labor movement was supportive of the civil rights movement, but again, we have to add the sister leadership or the sister rank in file. one of the great movements of the l

because there was a time when the ku klux klan could march, and now you don't even see them marching anymore with their sheets and hoods on. your name see the marching anymore because a lot of them went online through the internet and they recruited them. they have hung their sheets up and put on badges. you have to get them off the police force. first thing that the color from flint said is exactly the reason to do this program, both recruiting people from the communities and making sure people know the communities. any professional, you are a public servant if you are a police officer, part of the job is getting to know the community intimately. and that is a job from the top down in the bottom up, you are required to do it, and then you do do it. and this collar is right. largely, what has happened is we have people who are outside the neighborhoods, may not even have a lot of experience in a black crime and and you see you see this world as a place crime is cropping up all over the place, and you don't see it for its other aspects. the deep sense of distrust that this caller said

, that is the first, i suppose, the emergence of the ku klux klan. as recently as 2011. nominee er had his ithdrawn over reports that transgender children were, and i'm quoting him now, part of satan's plan. now, look. if i were to call out these remarks, you might not think that anybody who had even thought of going on a federal bench would be who i was talking about. but that is exactly who we were talking about. and that is why this congressional black caucus cannot possibly support this nominee. and we are prepared to understand that whatever nominee comes forward is going to be a conservative nominee. we're not asking for the nominee we would appoint. we're simply not asking, and we will do all we can to oppose nominees who are beyond the american pale. i'm speaking for the congressional black caucus, which represents 17 million african-americans. it's interesting to note that we have, in looking at judge kavanaugh, and here i'm going on to the supreme court, in looking at his decisions, we concerned ruly about his lack of respect for precedent.

black and white voters that supported reconstruction by intimidation, by violence, the rise of the klan. reconstruction would be on life support, even with the departure of andrew johnson. it would be on the edge of failure. which means, in point of fact, that we come to thaddeus stevens in the weeks before he died. he felt a deep sense of failure, not at the failure to convict johnson, but his believe that reconstruction as it had been set up, was not strong enough, not good enough, would not last. to a reporter he would say, my only regret is that i have lived so long and so uselessly. is there a moral to all of this? well, there has got to be a everything. and the answer to that is, in that time since, there are no final victories. the battles in america must be fought over and over again. it has always been that way through my lifetime, my parent'' lifetime, and their parents' lifetime. we need to remember, in fact, that not just then, but in all times, in all ages, it is a never-ending task to see that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from t

if wheels people -- they are behaving like klu klux klan members.partment and civil rights attorneys. these left-wing thugs are attacking citizens and denying them their civil rights. where is the cry from the aclu. why in the world aren't democratic figures, you mentioned maxine waters. where is chuck schumer? where is mayor deblazeio. where is dianne feinstein? they are silent. >> it's one of two things. it's crazy out there. it really, truly is. lou: is that the title? >> it's called "mad politics. ask." it, like they are trying to sell my book for me. it gets crazier every single day. they are in total crazy denial like we are talk about in other forms of mental imbalance, or they are knowingly inciting violence. either way we are at a scary point in our history. >> they are able to do this -- i'm not encouraging violence. i'm from texas and just moved here to d.c. we don't see this type of stuff in texas. but when you live in california and they have been doing everything they can to limit everybody's rights to bear arms. it leaves this opening

the klan was part of the southern movement of scotch irish people from pennsylvania into maryland and virginia and the rest of the southern country and the carolinas. his first childhood memories would probably have been from the valley of virginia. along thefamily moved border of pop in south carolina when he was 13 or 14. he looked again at the age of 24. he married rebecca,, the and of the future statesman and they started a family. to prosper as a merchant. he was a justice of peace and the leader of a presbyterian church. at the beginning of the revolution in 1775, he was a lieutenant and immediately joined the patriots like. he participated in the first siege of 1986 -- 1786. he fought in a charity campaign playing a key role with the charities -- charities. cherokees. the 35 of his men were surrounded by charities and -- cherokees and miraculously survived and one. he continued to participate ofavations to restore order south carolina frontier. spectacularwon a victory over a large enemy force that kill creek, georgia. in 1780, when the british captured charleston, and then occ

we are different from the ku klux klan was big in the 1920s and we are different from those folks who live out in the county and we are going to keep segregation but we're going to do it nonviolent, in a peaceful way and we're going to run the same. and that was the way they talk about the citizens council, that's the way they thought about themselves but what happened over the course of the late 1950s, it wasn't the citizens council that were keeping down his and the violence types in the plan. if you look, state after state in the deep south what's happening is if the clan and the more militant demagogue time that are radicalizing counsel. so that the people who were quote unquote good white folks are either going along for the ride or their slinky into a towering silence where they're keeping their head down and not saying anything for that. from the late 50s through the early 60s, this was mississippi, madhouse been. that was one of the journalists who talked about it. this was mississippi the closed society. "over brothers in 1954 and it was happening in alabama too. adding in ge

this is the one associated with the ku klux klan and other groups. it is that flag of nathan bedford forrest, that would become known as the symbol of oppression, especially be modern civil rights era. whether you like it or not, the reality is they were no loud cries from sub and saying do not .surp our images do not take them from the battles. there are people living in america right now, like many of thein this room, who recall 1950's and the 1960's as young people and what was happening. the question of which heritage are we trying to preserve and keep when we think about confederate symbols? again it becomes messy. if we are really intellectually and emotionally honest about this, we understand they are and profanefor some to others. the question moved from dealing with flags that are on state houses to, what do we do with the symbols themselves? thatundreds of statues stand in the front of courtyards and parks in particular. few people were having a itversation about removing from cemeteries. this was about the public square where the public is

picket, they held signs saying we shall overcome democrats and also democrats, ejecting patrons like a klan boss. despite the criticism, the restaurant said they're fully booked for the evening. >>> from restaurants to doctors, to shopping for pretty much anything, many of us turn to consumer reviews to help make decisions but with all that we have learned about how misinformation is created and shared online, can user reviews be trusted? nbc's joe friar has more. >> reporter: restaurants getting one-star reviews before they open. films panned by critics and praised by users with hidden profiles. online reviews are everywhere. can they be trusted? >> end of the day, 100 million users can't be wrong. >> reporter: yelp said the software filters out the suspect reviews and no way to completely block those motivated to spread mischief. when curry wife of basketball star steph curry announced the houst houston opening of her restaurant, the fans of a rival team flooded. curry responded i don't play ball so this is very entertaining. the food will speak for itself once we open. the yelp page now

ice, cops and klan go hand in hand. unbelievable.to break protest blocking ice building, three protestors arrested there. border patrol agents busting a pair of mexican nationals with nearly $240,000 of cocaine, dog-sniffing dog detected trying to cross border in arizona, record-breaking seizures at another arizona checkpoint. carley. carley: all right, thank you, rob. the families of two law enforcement officer who is were killed if n horrific car crash in december are being force today relive their heartbreak because illegal immigrant behind the wheel is walking free on just 280-dollar fine. marla wolf is wife of one of those men killed fbi agent carlos wolf and joins me life with the reaction. marla, thank you so much for being with us and i'm so sorry for your loss. so this illegal immigrant his name is robert poll -- palacios and was fined less than $300 for killing your husband and another man. to so many people including myself that doesn't make any sense, what would you tell the judge who handed down the sentence? >> i would

did he premier "the birth of a nation," which was all about black men being rapists and the ku klux klan saving the south. it is painful. if you have time, you can take a look at it. woodrow wilson, who was mostly progressive in economic policy and to a certain extent in international relations, is really not progressive when it comes to race. he fired all black federal government officers because he did not want any black people in the federal government. he establishes the league of nations. or helps to establish it, even though that's voted down by the u.s. congress. but he has this idea of national self-determination for everyone. and the moment people said, does this apply to asia and africa, he said of course not. i meant only europeans. o when it comes to race, he's extremely retrogress sieve. but that is how pernicious the dunning school was. it was in the white house, in hollywood, everywhere. that was the picture of reconstruction that was dominant. there is one dissenting voice, the famous black intellectual historian activist, one of the founders of the naacp, dubois. he wrot

some movie about an old southern town where the law enforcement people are the members of the ku klux klan if you think about it, had the texts not come to light, strzok would still be gathering information and investigating now president trump. >> absolutely. >> neil: and there by the great of god came the revelations what was going on. regardless how people feel ant president trump had a favor for president trump. note a one was biassed toward him. a lot of bias against him. >> the deep state is not a myth. the deep state, a government that believes it's in charge regardless of the will of the people, that it's in charge of how the government works, in charge of how the country works is not a myth. it's a reality and it's hard at work in the person of mr. strzok and i presume in a person of mrs. page -- i beg your pardon, his girlfriend as well. there's something terrifying about the fbi, whom we look upon as golden, absolutely shining examples of law enforcement, turn out to be as corrupt as corrupt could be. it's a very scary situation. not at all a good sign about law enforcement in t

. >> he was a neo-nazi, leader of the ku klux klan, got elected in 1990. subsequent ran for governor and ran for the united states senate. in one or both of the elections got two out of every three white votes. i have said in the book, that, we are not seeing anything now on the national level that we haven't seen in louisiana. relating to that racial issue. it is critically important, it is critical to talk about the cause of white supremacy. because we have seen examples in -- in our history. that when one group of people think they're superior to another, atrs tees occur. you can see examples where we as human beings have allowed ourselves. we didn't check our worst impulses to get to a place that created very dark moments in history. >> you actually setd the parallels between david duke and president trump as demagogues are breathtaking. his make america great again slogan is the dog whistle of all time. >> so, yeah, if you spend any time in the south, you speak to most people. african-americans you say i want to make america great. they will go, me to

that's going to require a whole bunch of historian doing whole lot of work especially the rise of the klan in this region which is assumed by historian, to just be anti-catholic and anti-immigration north racist. how it could be racist the if midwest eggs homogenous there are no african-americans in the midwest. well, there's lot of answers and a lot of questions coming out of this project. >> where is your research going now? >> i've got a couple of proposals to my editor and can't talk about them but i'll let you know as soon as i know. >> me question, building on what he was say, i've been doing some research which is outside this period but look at the way african-american homesteads spring up, drawing on he homested act and the way that former african-american soldiers could put their time temperatures the years in homesteading and i found it to be a very barren area for secondary sources and really having to dig. was curious if that's an area of interest? i have been look fog accounts of lynchings which you can find in the south and mexicans in california and it's a pile after questi

. >>> after doing episodes of the ku klux klan, and bear in alaska, you get to go to hawaii this timelike bourdain. mother [ bleep ]. >>> my next stop is the big island of hawaii, to check out a historic fish bond at the -- national park. by the 1970s the land had fallen into disrepair and was targeted by developers. that's when native hawaiian activists stepped in. their protests not only helped restore it, but turned it into a national park. another example of hawaiians showing the world that good can triumph over evil. today that spirit lives on with ruth alua. she's a guardian of the park's historic fish bond and she works with the federal government to continue its restoration. >> so this fish bond is hundreds of years old. it's always been used to produce fish. so we can just literally jump down and hand pick the fish you would want from the fish bond. >> so this is a way for people to sustainably fish, and it doesn't require a lot of unnatural energy or resources? >> yes, yeah, that's exactly it. >> here's how this fish bond works. ruth's ancestors built the stone walls to crea

the klan was part of the southern movement of scotch irish people from pennsylvania into maryland and virginia and the rest of the southern country and the carolinas. pickens' first childhood memories would probably have been from the shenandoah valley of virginia. then, his family moved along the border of pop in south carolina -- border of north and south carolina when he was 13 or 14. he looked again at the age of 24 west and south to the edge of white settlement in south carolina, near modern-day abbeville. calhoun, thebecca aunt of the future statesman and they started a family. he began to prosper as a farmer and a merchant. he was a justice of peace and the leader of a presbyterian church. at the beginning of the revolution and south carolina in 1775, he was a lieutenant and immediately joined the patriots side. he participated in the first he fought in a charity 1796. campaign playing a key role with the cherokees. later in the same campaign, he was the hero of a fight at tomasi, where he and 35 of his men were surrounded by a large band of cherokees and miraculously survived

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and moreover told me black people were being killed not only in mississippi but in birmingham by the klanolice. so that case was life changing for me and i think it's appalling that someone with no civil rights connections like jeff sessions would try to dress up his image. >> i just want to remind viewers that that impression left here on howell was intended to get there by emmett till's mother, that 14-year-old boy who was so brutally killed. she had an open casket there so people could see exactly what was done to him. >> that's exactly what emmett till did, and when his body was exhumed, i republished it when i ran the paper because americans needed to do it as well. do i appreciate the department of justice reopening this? yes. but i can still be critical of every other action he has taken. also, the author of his book, i can't let him off the hook as well. he waited until he published this book to turn these notes over. carolyn bryant made these comments a long time ago, and i don't care how old she is, she should be held to task because her comments led to the murder, the assassina

charlottesville residents argues the organizers of the august 17 unite the right rally violated the 1871 ku klux klan act and the 1866 civil rights act. the suit specifically names prominent white supremacists, including jason kessler, richard spencer, and james fields, who killed anti-racist protester, heather heyer, when he drove his car through a crowd of counter protesters. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. juan: and i'm juan gonzalez. welcome to all of our listeners and viewers from around the country and around the world. in a move to push the supreme court further to the right, president trump has nominated federal judge brett kavanaugh to fill anthony kennedy's seat on the high court. if kavanaugh is confirmed, it would create a bloc of five right-wing justices making it the most conservative court since the 1930's. critics warn a a solid right-wig cocourt could lead to major rollbacks for voting rights, reproductive rights, civil rightsts, environmental regulatitions, gun control, reproductive rights, eve

she is an appalachian migrant who originally came from a klan family initially who migrates to uptown chicago, on the north side of chicago, and becomes a welfare rights activist. she goes to washington and is becoming a spokesperson for poor whites there, who is able to bring black, white, and chicano welfare rights activists together. she ends up getting so much credibility through the campaign, she is tapped as the vice presidential candidate for the peace and freedom party, a very small third-party in 1968 that does not win a lot of votes, but she is the vice president nominee. i can't remember how many dates now -- states now, maybe 10 states. it was an opportunity for women to flex their muscle in some sense in issues and directions that now did not really allow gave voice really to. that is a great question. and of course the welfare rights activists as well, the whole that nownot something is particularly comfortable with. the idea of a more humane welfare system, but also the idea of a national income, a guaranteed income for everybody. it was an idea that even the nixon admi