the shooting started, an assault on the klan, an assault of the klan, the incipient klan, consisting of fire companies and ranks of unnamed gangs left 200 black people dead, according to one newspaper editor, who was witness to the events, and it was a massacre about voting rights. it's relevant to observe that much of the fight during the election of 2020 was about voting, who gets to vote, whose votes are counted, especially about when it is black people who are voting. during the next eight years, evidence shows lecorn and perhaps 5,000 others in the state, all of them known as ku klux in the newspapers, raided, marched, and beat people. lecorn seems to have joined a group called the knights of the white camellia, led by a family friend. the knights of the white camellia were costumed and hooded. they harassed people. they conducted night raids. they whipped people. they carried out individual killings. in the nighttime attack, lecorn and an armed gang of 20 surrounded a police depot in new orleans. the second group stormed the city's main armory but failed to overcome its u.s. ar

in 1925, the ku klux klan could claim 5 million members, white and christian. it is likely for publicity reasons that this number was exaggerated. medicine the actual claim membership stood near 4 million. so 4 million klansman living in 1925, if you forward 100 years to their grandchildren and great-grandchildren in the year 2025, add up to 135 million white americans, 135 million form 50% of the white population of the united states. seen another way that means one of two whites have a family link to the ku klux klan every other white person if he or she knew the names of ancestors and wished to research their lives could produce clan family memoir. why retrieve from obscurity this bitter inability story about constant lacorn, a foot soldier in the first white militia? i have a personal motive, and that is that it bothers me. it feels like finding a corpse in the bedroom and i am disgusted and ashamed. i had an inkling that my great grand grandfather was a violent supremacist that i did not see until research just what this family member had gotten a lot of t

after the civil war was over, he became the first grand wizard of the ku klux klan. that's why, for the past 20-plus years, since roughly 1998, there has been on the outskirts of nashville, tennessee this, hideous 25-foot-tall statue of the founder of the klan. sitting on a piece of private property overlooking interstate 65. you really can see it from i-65. and local residents, local officials, have had a lot of consternation over this for the past 25 years.pa it has flags from the confederate states flying around it, plus lots of confederate flags themselves. and nathan bedford forest on his horse with a gun and a sword in the middle of it. local officials and local residents tried to persuade the state of tennessee, that the state could plant some tall trees along that part of the interstate to shield this thing from passing traffic. well, the guy on whose private property the statue sat, he said, if the state did try to occlude the view of that masterpiece from interstate 65, he had a i plan. he would put all of his confederate flags on taller flag poles and do w

who put up the klan founder statue on his property. made by his friend jack kershaw. this whose property that was, who erected the statues in the five pulse. he died a year ago. this time last year. his death actually made some awe, isn't that cute headlines at the time. because in his will he left $5 million for the care of his border collie, who is actually an adorable dog. he left $5 million to cover the care of his 12 year old dog for the rest of her life, which is awe. the thing is he didn't actually have $5 million. he wrote that in his will but he didn't have $5 million to get to the dog or anyone else. the executor of his well had to go get that figure reduced, because there wasn't that kind of money for the dog. it appears the man may have died in that, a trailer park he owns near his home was reportedly being sold to pay off the debts of his estate. and it seems like, i'm just guessing here, but i'm guessing that may be his three acre parcel of land overlooking interstate 65, the one with the big nathan bedford forrest statue on it. i'm guessing that might n

specifically, we are bringing this lawsuit pursuant to local and federal law including the ku klux klan act of 1871, a reconstruction era federal law designed to protect our country against violent conspiracy, protect our citizens against violent conspiracy like the attack that took place on january 6. in the complaint which has been filed and is public, we specifically allege that these vigilantes, insurrectionists and masters of a lawless mob conspired against the district of columbia. they planned and promoted and participated in the violent attack on the united states capital. we further allege the named defendants cause substantial and provable damage to the district of columbia and, in particular, to err courageous law enforcement officers who risked their lives. and some even died. to defend the capital, the district and our country's freedom. as the independent attorney general, i have the responsive liddy to enforce our laws and whole these violent offenders accountable because they caused actual, physical and financial harm to our city, its employees and a residence. we brough

he claims they were recruiting new klan members at that prison. but florida's department of corrections tells the a.p., that's not true. adding the department found no evidence of wider membership or a systemic problem. and saying the more than 18,000 corrections officers should not be defamed by the isolated actions of three individuals. moore insists the hate group has strong ties to law enforcement. in florida and georgia. >> i uncovered people that were former military, current military, former law enforcement, current law enforcement. >> reporter: we were unable to get comment from georgia law enforcement officials. moore says he is coming forward because he believes publicly discussing his story is the best way to protect himself and his family. >> thank you, christine. >>> coming up, the "home alone" star who is now under arrest. >>> also ahead, the urgent >>> also ahead, the urgent search for a missing 3 ♪ thousands of women with metastatic breast cancer are living in the moment and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is fo

the next moon lit night, the klan would visit the men and punish them.less men were not so bold, and crime became less and less, end quote. on that note, i'll stop here, and answer a few questions from carole, and questions from all of you. thank you very much for listening. >> thanks, david. it really is a wonderful introduction to what is a very powerful book, and it is really gripping to see what is going on and one of the things that just amazed me so much about the book was some of your sources were these things that the perpetrators of this coup had very proudly written for the rest of the world to see and give them accolades for what they were doing to bring what they believed in their heads was good government. >> exactly. i thought that was one of the most remarkable things i came across when i was researching this book is just how many diaries, newspaper editorials, and letters and memoirs were written by the perpetrators openly bragging about what they had done, and really extolling the vrchus of white supremacy and pointing out that this coup

and so there is a law from 1871 called the klu klux klan act that makes it illegal to promote violence. so the defendants in the trial who are the heads of all of the white nationalist groups that were marching there. they say that what they were doing is protected speech because we have the first amendment, but the first amendment does not protect speech that is meant to insight violence. we'll see what happens in the court of the next month and the trial, but i bring this up because of the violence that we saw in charlottesville on august of 2017 has anticedence in our time period today. so the first thing i want to say is that in september of 1928, the blood liable that was faced in russia made it's way to the united states. it came to new york in a town where, by the way, the klu klux klan burned crosses on lawns, and a sneaky kind of anti-semitism was more common. they sent a little girl into the woods to find her brother who had been playing with her friends. the brother comes out and the little girl never returns. so through the night they comb the woods looking for the little g

important question because these attacks -- and i alluded to this when i talked about the ku klux klan of the '20s as well, that these groups were not only attacking jews, they attacked catholics, communists, african-americans. so coughlin's, like the white russians essentially, saw that the jews were judeo bolsheviks. you get that hybrid. good question. other questions or comments? sofia? >> what was in the international ju, the world's problem. it olsheviks the protocol saying the world has become corrupted by liberal values. so they tacked all sort of things and blamed the jews for them. for example they attacked jazz. jazz was corrupting proper music and they blamed the jews for jazz. so they echo the themes of jewish world conspiracy, jewish banking, jewish finance'res, they, those traditional tropes. but anything modern. and you can read them. there were newspaper articles essentially. newspaper kppzs. >> was it a way to relate him to anti-semitism or. >> my assumption the reporter, the way the article reads is the reporter has interviewed adolf hitler. and so my assumption that

jon: i was sort of unaware that klu klux klan still exists. but it does.don't prohibit membership in the klu klux klan. if that's the case, how effective can they be? >> that's what i was trying to get at in terms of identifying -- drawing a distinction between membership in a group. the dod does not want not business of saying you can be a member of this group but not this group. people on the left said if you are in the kkk, that should automatically exclude you from active duty military. but they were focusing on actions rather than membership. and action includes action on social media. if you retweet or support or write a tweet that encourages terrorism or violence, you are out. jon: timothy mcveigh served in the army with great distinction and went on to formulate views afterward that led him to bomb the murrah building. is this an attempt to root out timothy mcveighs who wear the uniform? >> it's an ongoing struggle. when i served in the government in a national security position i had to swear that i was not a member of a violent extremist organiza

it came to mecina, new york in a time where the ku klux klan burned crosses on lawns and a sneaky kind of anti-semitism was common. her brother comes out but the little girl never returns. through the night the towns men comb the woods looking for the little girl and then when they haven't found her, someone sh and we don't flow who, but someone says, you know, the jews are having a holiday. maybe they need blood. sun down, sunday evening, the next day would begin the holiest day of the jewish calendar. the day of atonement. some time sunday afternoon, the little girl was spotted on a roadway far from her house. she had looked for her brother, fallen asleep, slept through the night, woke up. she was so lost it took her a while to find her way out. she was unharmed but that sunday evening as the jews of mecina made their way to synagogue, an angry mob was outside the sin -- synagogue. they were yelling the word kike. they accused the jews of having been scared to give up the child. it ended without violence but the damage had opinion done. in the 1930s, hateful rhetoric threats of viole

when we open up the book we open up with the scene where the local chapter of the klan is visiting his family in omaha. he isn't born yet. his mother is pregnant with him and his father, there are organizing where marcus garvey, jenna, the white klan members don't like this. the people are running this town don't like this. there don't want to have black people aware of their rights and expressing themselves and rising up against what the status quo is. they feel threatened by this and they make threats, and luckily, this is a story where getting from one of the brothers. we have never heard it in this detail even where he talks about how the horses were. one of the brothers, wilfred, sausage by horses so these details about them were never known and we never think about these things with malcolm, right? even though malcolm is not on the scene this is the world he was born into. he is kind of in the scene. he is in his mothers ellie. so anyway my -- belly. he comes back to new york and he's talking with very close -- [inaudible] show in new york called like it is. he called him about t

go back to the ku klux klan and the immediate aftermath of the civil war. think proud boys and oath keepers today. by extremism, we're not limiting it to those motivated by racial hatred, religious or ethnic hatred and division. it also includes those who just want to disrupt and overturn government, right? think january 6th. there were many people within that insurrection that had no affiliation whatsoever with the more white supremacist, white nationalist group. they want to disrupt democracy. when you think about his experience, while he was gently associated with white supremacist groups, his primary moteival is disrupt government and topple government. and saw government as overreach. you have that component and of course, you have some extremists who are single-issue minded, whether they're acting out on their views about abortion, about environmental issues, about animal rights. you see extremists behaviors as well in the single-issue oriented people. but yes, white supremacy and nationalism is probably the primary driver that we're seeing in the mil

democrat alexandria ocasio-cortez says that makes him leader of the, quote, ku klux klan. we begin with the big white house rollout of the winter coronavirus plan. the president visits the national institutes of health next hour for the big announcement. we're told he will focus on getting more children vaccinated and seniors boosted, plus insurance reimbursement for at-home covid tests and new travel restrictions. the timing is tough. winter is coming, and the new coronavirus variant is here. another case verified this morning. and with the public health challenge comes this reality. more uncertainty and stress we see. let's get straight to our cnn chief white house kronlts kaitlan collins. what are we going to hear? >> he's going somewhere he hasn't been since three weeks after he was inaugurated. months later still dealing with the pandemic of a different scenario. with the new variant, it's going to be looming over what the president is talking about, which is combatting covid-19 in the winter months and trying to contain it or contain a potential spread. one of the st

any of you raise the question when someone on their side of the aisle said i work with the ku klux klan, referring to republicans? did anyone on your side of the aisle talk about when omar said the only reason i rise in supporter israel is about the benjamins, i never got a public apology or phone call. did anybody on your side of the aisle, i think you might ask speaker pelosi about this one, when congresswoman omar referred to american taliban as equal, because i remember speaker pelosi saying something to the effect, i could be wrong, it was to the effect that she did not denounce her for saying that. i think when somebody does something, that is wrong, they apologize. lauren boebert apologized publicly and picked up the phone and -- it took a lot of effort. she wanted to meet personally. denied the ability to meet personally. she picked up the phone and called congresswoman omar. she said i want to personally apologize to you. and that's what she did. i think in america that's what we do. and then we move on on the issues that need to take place. reporter: leader mccarthy, 2019 remo

is an important question because these attacks and alluded to this when i talked about the ku klux klan in the 20s as well as these groups were not only attacking jews, catholics and communist and they also attacked african-american so like the white russians essentially saw that the jews were judeo, the highbred and that was a good question. other questions or comments. >> what was in the international in the world problems in the articles or stories, what was in actually saying predict. >> is a series of articles financially when they were published be called the international juice for most problems in case they hadn't got the message across and then it, for the writers, very much like the protocols saying that the world has become corrupted by liberal values so they added certain things and blamed the jews for them for example they attack jazz and was corrupting it and they blamed the jews for jazz so they are coded the themes of jewish world conspiracy, she was anti-jewish banking and echoed those traditional things and anything that is modern, that is changing also them and ignori

mccarthy is so desperate to be speaker that he's working with his cku klux klan caucus to loo aside, women of color, members of congress. she goes on to say it is not just about nasty phone calls, and emails. the gop are given freedom to incite without consequence. where does mccarthy stand on this? has he spoken as much as he will on this? >> mccarthy is walking a very difficult line obviously because he's trying to placate the extremists in his party in the hopes he can maintain the enthusiasm for the far right to propel him to the majority in the midterms. it is always a dangerous gamble. how many times do we need to learn do republican speakers and would be speakers need to learn that gollum always turns on its creator. the idea he's going to have a walk in the park and to getting the majorities itself, even if they win, as speaker, is i think mistaken. there is not as much support for mccarthy, even from trump, as perhaps -- especially from trump as he might want to believe. i do think that calling -- this escalation of name calling about the ku klux klan caucus does not help. t

this comes from the ku klux klan era in attempt to keep these kinds of attks in a similar way to thenia law that was used by victims of the unite the right rally at happened in charlottesville where one person was killed. it's an attempt to hold people that organized the rally in d.c. the way they tried to hold people that organized the rally in charlottesville responsible for the violence for the bloodshed, for the financial cost of these attacks. it will be interesting to see if we get a similar result from charlottesville. there is also a criminal conspiracy case relating to the january 6 attack on the capital. >> all of these efforts to hold people accountable for january 6, and what have we learned about mr. trump and what he was doing that day? >> we don't know a lot about what donaldrump was doing. reports are he was watching television during the early part of the attack on the capital. he did have phone conversations and there were reports about conversations with kevin mccarthy, thhouse minority leader. but the question is, why didn't he take actions, why did he take so lon

kevin mccarthy is so desperate to be speaker that he is working with his ku klux klan caucus to looknd allow violent targeting of woc members of congress. this cannot be ignored. the comments come as we learn "new york magazine" has provided essays on her focusing on the rare authenticity and the role her beauty plays. kat timpf is a fox nation host and co-host of gut field and quite lovely. that's not the actmen that people who voted for her are looking for. >> as a piece of literature i'm not sure i'm interested in reading a fawning, perfectly fawning profile or series of thing about anybody. except me. everybody feels that way about themselves. but to read something you want to be a bit more dynamic than that than just a book of how she not only is perfect but looks perfect. i can't imagine that being an interesting read. >> harris: what do you make of the whole idea with her throwing seriously called the caucus among the republicans the kkk. >> i don't think it helps ilhan omar at all. i think you should condemn the death threats against anybody and her but you don't have to like

reading, truman was aware of the demagogues and bigotry and among these he concluded that the ku klux klanhe information in missouri and confederates, truman it be that the present he did not sit idly by any longer and do nothing of the glaring injustices occurring in the south and in response to home, truman responded, if there living 80 years behind their times and the sooner they come out of it, the better it will be for the country, and themselves. and we have an upcoming series, truman will go on to be military and the workforce. and history informs truman it about our great republic amos also speaking of challenges for democracy and on june 16th 1949 angel reporter inquiring about the recent history in his administration of an down in a country in a didn't go to hacking it will not now. and it the members of his father to that and assess the situation it braided and the history we have now. and now, as we know, avelino about truman, the family bible scene here twice at the age of 12 because he said so and one, a great deal of familiarity of the bible from the fact that i run it throu

did you raise the question someone on their side of the aisle set i work with the ku klux klan referring to republicans? does anyone on your side of the aisle talk about when omar -- said the only reason i support israel is about the benjamin's. i never got a public apology or phone call. did anybody on your side of the aisle -- i think you might've asked speaker pelosi about this one. when congresswoman omar referred to american taliban as equal, because i remember speaker pelosi saying something to the effects, and i could be wrong, but it was to the effect that she did not denounce her for saying that. so i think when somebody does something, they apologize. he apologized publicly and then picked up the phone and it took a lot of effort. she wanted to meet personally. denied the ability to meet personally. when she picked up the phone and called, congresswoman omar, she said i want to personally apologize to you and that is what she did. i think in america that is what we do and we move on on the issues that need to take place. host: you can see more on the website at c-span.org. let'

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akron, the center of rubber manufacturer was home to one to have largest centers of the ku klux klan.this is the golf course behind the club still there today. no longer segregated. this is liberian labor housing. it had become an embarrassment to the u.s. state department. fire stone had a bad reputation as an employer of africans. one that was damaging to the prestige of the united states. that same year in response to fire stone segregationist practices and those of american firms like republic steel that operated large mining concession in the country, liberian president william tubman introduced an anti-segregation bill into the liberian legislature. that liberia, they needed law against racial discrimination suggest how entrenched jim crow was in the plantation and mining enclaves built by american firms on sovereign african soil. this is tubman. on the left is harvey firestone junior who would retire from the company in 1963. next to him is tubman. next to him is raymond. one of the other brothers that would assume the presidency of the company. he would go onto pursue a phd in

grand master of the klan. this monument was erected and dedicated october 7, 2000.hey describe this man. this monument stands as a testament of our perpetual devotion and respect. one of the south's finest heroes. >>> up next, the southern history that's not told in these monuments, the horrors of slavery and of lynchings. you'll meet a woman whose father was lynched and who erected her own plaque to memorize the place he was murdered just 20 miles from the alabama capitol. stone ghost in the south continues right after this. t inh continues right after this o man, that's a whole lot of wrinkly at least my shoes look good! looking good start with bounce wrinkleguard, the megasheet designed to prevent wrinkles in the dryer. a must in your medicine cabinet! less sick days! cold coming on? zicam is the #1 cold shortening brand! highly recommend it! zifans love zicam's unique zinc formula. it shortens colds! zicam. zinc that cold! imagine having someone else do your books for you. as your quickbooks live bookkeeper, i'll categorize expenses, reconcile accounts, and clos

interaction with african-americans which none of the northern justices had at all and the fact the ku klux klan was inserting itself so strong also gave him a moral impetus later on. a. >> i understand he was a fundamentalist christian of the time. what do you know about stopping the decision? >> this is a difficult question to answer and i probably shied away from it a little too much because the theologies are a very difficult thing to grasp obviously. i will say he was a devout presbyterian and there were two doctrines one was a famous theologian of his time and believed in this idea that god has a divine plan for anything and i think that how can you be aware of the injustices of slavery and allow it to continue. the presbyterians was that god had a plan. they would preach the sort of relationship to acknowledge the humanity of people in the subservient position and in a different part of the church they also had this idea that it's part of this plan that may have prevented action. by contrast, there is another doctrine with a sort of spiritual agency where people can and later in his life

it has the observation, been shepherd said his family was harassed by the ku klux klan and land developers who own properties in the beach city. ah, they slouch tires ah, the i started fights with people are the burn duck crosses they burned was down here. are they burned a mattress under the porch of the resort itself? here, there are people here there. don't want you know, to see change him at beat, and we're not here to change man, it beat. we're here to write a rall. ripper will try to get property back to belong to us that was illegally taken, ah ha, from fraud. and shepherd got his wish, california governor gavin knew some signed a law transferring the property known as bruce, as beach, back to the family, you can see what it was purchased for back then, and what it's worth to day. so now an organization called where's my land is hoping to bring the same type of victory to other families who had their land taken. but some advocates say other cases being brought up or not as straightforward as the bruce is beach case william dirty junior, a scholar at duke university said i just think

he probably said at the klan rally, we should all wear pillow cases over our faces. to scare the darkies? sure, that's why. the main story. for decades, owning a home has been one of the core parts to have the american dream, just below dating pete davidson. but right now actually buying a home is harder than matt gaetz watching the new saved by the bell. >> with the housing market red hot perspective buyers trying not to get burned as demand rises, so intense that red fin says homes are selling within a week after hitting the market. >> prospective buyers in bidding wars, homes selling hours after being posted. >> in an open hours, 50 cars in a line outside waiting to see that property. >> people are so desperate they'll court favors, get potential sellers tickets to rare events. >> even houses with notorious histories are selling. this is the 100-year-old med mediterranean style home in l.a. where the charles family murdered their victims in 1969 but, in today's market, it was snapped up for $1.8 million. >> trevor: okay, okay, i know what you're thinking right now

. >> did any reporter ask about her remember last week who said i work with the ku klux klan? did anyone ask her about congresswoman omar when she claimed in the last congress my only support for israel was about the benjamin. when she said america is no different than the taliban and would not apologize for that and nancy pelosi said she wouldn't make her or what about when she mentioned congresswoman omar, on 9/11 some people did something. but you know what happened to a republican when they made a comment they didn't truly believe, they apologized to the american public and apologized to the member personally but this is what the democrats try to continue to do. they need to hold their members accountable but why would eric swallwell who could not get a security clearance in the private sector, why would they give him the national secrets of it and be on intel committee's. that is amazing to me. to let it happen. >> don't think they should be controlling what republicans sits on what committees and none of you should be apologizing. at this point they are the ones sitting

more blacks are killed in one year by other blacks than were killed and lynched in 40 years of the klant we are talking about jussie smollett exploiting that. they are in danger of returning us to the precivil rights south. i live in mississippi, in the '50s, in the military, i can tell you what it was like. if a black killed another black, often they were not arrested and we said this demand black life and what we demanded was equal justice for the law. and i went to jail in the civil rights movement with others and dr. king and others so that we would be treated fairly by our judicial and law enforcement system. and yet, we don't get upset when blacks kill other blacks. black lives only matter when it is taken by a white person. >> laura: your words tonight -- i'm sorry to interrupt, we've got to roll, but your words tonight, they are giving me chills because more people will need to hear this. bob, thank you. civil rights icon. will jussie smollett be brought up on federal charges? of course n. they are too busy investigating january 6. the doj, unleashing charges against thomas, wha

kevin mccarthy is so desperate to be speaker that he is working with his ku klux klan caucus to lookr members of congress. this cannot be ignored. what's your response to her words. >> there well ms. cortez, do we say that she using political hyperbole and pa jurorrives to fight political hyperbole and pa jurorrives. it's not it says e pluribus for many one. what ms. cortez and her squad have done repeatedly very good at playing victim and guilty of divisive rhetoric themselves. todd: congressman peter defazio becoming the 19th house democrat to retire. you are in congress, you are with these folks, you feel the vibe of this place. do these folks want to get off the sinking ship or is there something more here? >> no, i think you are right. we have seen what happens under nancy pelosi' leadership. she was at the helm ganged 63 seats 10 years ago and it looks like we could -- we might not be seeing a tidal wave it might be a tsunami a red wave and we are hoping that's the case. carley: less than a year away so we will continue to follow it congressman pat fallon thank you so much for