there's kind of a myth that the ku klux klan was made up of losers and louts and hooligans. and so but in fact, it was largely founded and led by educated at its six founders, royal college graduates in tennessee. 1866 and its leaders almost everywhere. as jane said, her introduction were professional people, landowners, doctors, sometimes churchmen, journalists and so on. they were community leaders, which makes what they perpetrated all the more disturbing. they can't be written off by dismissing the the kind of people who who made up the klan. so. i'm going to talk about a couple of things here. i'm going to talk about what the klan was, the klan of the 1870s, and then i'll talk about how the federal government coped with it and in which, yes, as jane said, congress as well as president grant played a pivotal roles. so insofar we think of the ku klux klan today, it's most often i think the klan of the 20th century. many of us remember it's more recent. ascendancy in the 19 oh sixties and so on, in reaction to the civil rights movement. the original ku klux klan was founde

this the ku klux klan act is extremely strong. it defines everything that the klan is doing, including wearing of costumes and terrifying people on public roads and many other things, is specified in the legisla lation as illegal with extremely strong punishments ranging up to. i mean, this may not sound tough, but it was for the time $5,000. and as a lot of money in 1870 and the five or more years in prison, federal prison. okay. grant also pursues a prong policy to deal with the klan is he dispatches troops into the south, particularly into areas of intense the most intense klan activity. i write particularly a lot about south carolina. in that context, it was the it was the, dare i say, the showcase for crushing the klan and the troops he dispatched, among others, were the seventh cavalry. you've heard of them? yes. that's the same seventh cavalry. that was at that was slaughtered at the battle of the little bighorn in 1870. the same people, same guys, but it was custer in the leading them. no, he wasn't interested. he was a co

the ku klux klan debates over prohibition. people who supported prohibition appalled by the speakeasies and the jazz filled, booze filled clubs in the cities and the flappers, and between within the religious community, a fierce debate between religious modernists who believed that the bible could be interpreted in light of scientific discovery and fundamentalists who believed that sticking to the idea that the bible was absolute truth would be a one way to help keep society from sliding south word. and in the core of that debate is this issue of the teaching of evolution and the movement to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools and universities and in part because the teaching of evolution could lead some people to question their faith. but also because of the uses to which darwinism had been put. in particular, eugenics. the movement in the 1920s to sterile, wise people who were seen as unfit. tens of thousands of americans are forcibly sterilized by their states. in the 1920s under the theory that you could speed

yuna ku, bbc korea reporter in seoul.lity of a major war. britain's defence secretary says we're moving to a pre—war world. british generals are calling for a citizens' army. president zelensky says world war iii is just around the corner. and donald trump says that what he sees asjoe biden�*s weakness in dealing with iran will lead to, yes, a third world war. they've all got their reasons, of course. british generals want a lot more spent on defence. president zelensky wants more european help, and donald trump, well, he wants to be president. but the possibility of war certainly exists. no—one wants to be like the famous british economist norman angell, who in 1910 wrote a book called the great illusion, proving with impeccable logic that a world war couldn't happen because the world's economies were so intertwined. we know now how easy it is to slip into war by accident. just as norman angell in 1910 forgot the dangerfrom pesky, out—of—control little countries like serbia, we've got north korea, iran and the houthis. t

and the 1920s is going to see a a rebirth of the ku klux klan. the klan, which had originally been created during reconstruct to fight reconstruction policy, but then had gone kind of into remission after 1877, when white supremacy, again begins to be restored, is going to rise more and time its targets will just be african-americans and their republican. but it's to be immigrants, catholics loose women union members, --, flappers supporting prohibition and it's going to be everywhere. 4 million members from maine to oregon. chicago had 50,000 klan and 50,000 members klan on long island island. and part of what added to the clients for, cassidy, was that the twenties came at the end of the ellis island era of immigration, from which many of you in the room are descended from 90 to 1920. 18 million immigrants come in from places the streams of immigration hadn't come before. eastern europe. russia poland, 3 million --, 4 million italian catholics, etc. and part of the reaction was to this, to people who believed that these people would not be amer

classic wall cuckoo clock here, but you will see their unusual interpretation, why - kuku, not once kua, and decided to make a watch in the shape of a papillon. you can hang around each exhibit of this small exhibition not for a minute or two, but until you understand the operating principle of every watch mechanism, where all the parts are made of wood, and even when... the author puts a quartz movement in his watch, he still leaves the wooden mechanics open. andrei mikhailovich realized long ago that there is something fascinating in the way gears work, how their gears flawlessly cling to each other, every small detail moves a large complex mechanism. i like this myself, so my watches, basically they are like this, i try to make the mechanics, the mechanics themselves, as visible as possible. because - mechanics are beauty, grace, plus it also somehow works functionally, so well, i always liked gears, these same gears in the derzhinsky regional center of folk art culture, where andrei mikhailovich works and where most of his works are exhibited everywhere, on the walls in the faye ,

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>> that 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

>> i totally agree. 1924 was the apex of the power of the ku klux klan in america.of the democratic delegates at that convention were either members of, leaders of, or controlled pie the ku klux klan. the democratic party in contrast today was a southern racist party. thank god we have come that far, but the nazi and klan are still there. >> the last thing i have to bring up because it is a little fun. so the rankings by republican -- by ideology, donald trump among the republicans who made the rankings, best and worst presidents, they ranked him at 41. the democrats ranked him at the bottom, 45. independents, bottom. conservatives, 43. liberals, 45. everyone agreed, including the republican rank ers that he's terrible. he couldn't get higher than 41, even with the republicans. what do you make of that? >> i can't imagine why someone who was twice impeached and wanted to suspend the constitution, an insurrection that might have led to the deaths of leaders of congress would rank so low. can i ask a final question? in honor of presidents' day, may i bring you a bottl

people are generally familiar with the ku klux klan which had an enormous presence in the 1920's. that was a factor. add to the mix the media and in particular one local media outlet, he did the afternoon newspaper called the tulsa tribune. we have this tinderbox or powder cake in tulsa needing only some catalyst to ignite the racial violence that occurred on may 31 and june 1 of 1921. host: the tulsa world earlier this month, especially for john black history month, notable oklahomans and state history. you mentioned -- you are mentioned of one of the notable oklahomans for your work on researching and writing about the tulsa race massacre. they write your work has played a role in bringing attention to a subject long ignored with over 100 people dead, 1000 buildings destroyed, this massacre that happened. how does something like that get to be ignored? guest: it is ignored as a deliberate decision on the part of people who are in power and occupy positions of privilege. tulsa, when the massacre occurred in 1921 was on an upward trajectory. it became known as the oil capital of t

judge for yourself, one ku.r of dry snow accumulated on the roof puts a force of 125 kg per square meter on the roof. load from the same volume of wet snow, and even saturated with rain moisture, increases almost nine times. it is not surprising that roofs collapse under such weight. on the other hand, thaws provoke snow and ice avalanches, and it is not clear which is more dangerous. when falling from an ordinary five-story building , such a block is near the surface of the earth. acquires energy equal to the explosion energy of 33 g of trinitrotoluene. by the way, a regular lemon contains 60 g. in the last days of the calendar winter, rice. roof collapses on the russian plain will be very large, the fact is that the weather the region will be influenced by a series of atlantic cyclones that bring air masses warmed by the gulf stream to us, only to the southeast the advance of heat will be restrained by the crest of the anticyclone stretching from siberia, so the warming will manifest itself to a greater extent

in the crowd, but the film caused scandals due to its pro-racist view, provoked the revival of the ku-right racists, here its members are shown as heroes, and subsequently joined it about 7 million people entered. the film is based on the novel by thomas dixon the younger, a member of the clan. this is history the lives of two americans. white families from the north and south of the united states during the period before and after the civil war. there are a lot of black characters here , almost all of them so far. at a screening in the white house , president woodrow wilson said that all this , quote, is a terrible truth, even for 1915 it was extremely unpolitically correct, but the film recouped its budget hundreds of times, with the advent of sound films, the birth of a nation was voiced and released again, on the centenary of the film in... in 2015 , it was already named the most disgusting in the history of hollywood. february 8, 1988 mikhail gorbachev, general secretary of the cpsu central committee, announced the withdrawal of soviet troops from afghanistan. this was before the

the film stars well—known korean actor son suk—ku, who plays a mysterious driver in this science fictiong to create something that they haven't seen before. the idea of what movie is can be, ithought, you know, bigger than what it is. the director of this endeavour previously won a short film palme d'or for his work on a short film called safe, and sees his latest work as just one example of how korean storytellers are using different techniques to try to capture new audiences. translation: i think these days that there are many similar - narratives as stories, so therefore coming up with fresh ways to tell the stories — for instance, 3d movies in the past or when black and white went to colour — i think those kinds of illustrative ways and how they evolve can also be a new innovative move. south korea's film industry has long had an edge internationally, notjust in its ability to deliver original and distinct stories, but also by creating impressive—looking features. across seoul is the home of dexter studios, established more than ten years ago. it's now one of the biggest visual effec

the zhytomyr, khmelnytskyi and chernivtsi regions, - reported the chief state sanitary doctor ihor kus. in another five regions, an increase in the incidence of hcv was found. according to kuzin, children under the age of 17 get sick the most, but there is currently no reason to introduce quarantine in ukraine. but if the situation worsens, the mandatory mask regime may be returned. let me remind you that schools in kyiv, poltava, and zakarpattia regions have already switched to the distance learning format. and to operational information from the general staff. armed forces of ukraine. 66 combat clashes took place at the front during the day. ukrainian soldiers repelled more than 13 enemy attacks in the lemano-kupinsky direction. the hottest so far is near avdiivka. the russians do not stop trying to surround the city. there, the defense forces repelled 30 attacks. another seven were repelled in the maryan direction. five times the occupiers unsuccessfully tried to storm kherson direction. yesterday, our aviation made 12 strikes on the personnel concentration area . skovit playing wit

hatred was colossal, reconstruction actually failed in the southern states, there was... a backlash, the kuh. america was really facing the threat of civil war, it seemed like it would happen, there the slogan was almost like the trumpists, tilden or blood, they said, that is, either he is the president, or we start a war, and the elites agreed, literally, when the inauguration was supposed to take place, the so-called compromise of 1877 took place, the moderate republicans agreed with the moderates democrats, radicals removed, reconstruction. turned around, federal troops withdrew from the southern states, what happened was what the same gore viddal called the very bottom of american democracy. it is considered one of the dirtiest elections that has occurred. hayes promised that he would not run for a second term, made concessions to the democrats for many years in the southern states this segregation was formed, which only ended if it ended, well, at least it officially ended in the 60s of the 20th century. they agreed, they agreed in... the states, on the other hand, as we said here, and

i'm joined now by our reporter yuna ku.r to these doctors have that they can as president union described it, taking peoples lives and hostage?- described it, taking peoples lives and hostage? before the government, _ lives and hostage? before the government, there _ lives and hostage? before the government, there have - lives and hostage? before the government, there have beenj government, there have been attempts by the previous government to expand medical school quota, especially the characters in the previous government. they also tried to expand the quota but they also faced strikes from the doctors and they had to scrap the plan. so there are some doctors saying that we have never lost to the government, which means that the government is patiently showing week attitude towards the doctor's protest because as the president said if they go into protest, this tax is the medical system of the country and this threatens many patients, especially the ones in emergent needs such as cancer patients and pregnant women. 50 ca

stories there , or a vilnik, or who else are there, our so-called stars, yes, so that they say abroad, i kucollected money, they say that there... they worry about us and bought a tank, but with regard to the oligarchs, well, i would, for example , offer them certain conditions, that guys, we need a yard, let's sign up, we can take bonds, you can offer others, you know all this, for example , poroshenko has already invested several hundreds of millions in these bonds, and for example, he bought a bunch of cars, interpipe is actually doing the same thing and doing the same thing and... and akhmetov is also doing it, by the way, you have to give credit, well, not everyone is like that , like kolomoisky, how filatov said about him, how many times they turned to him, feedback there was no, and the same interpipe actively helps, and the same, akhmetov helps, at the same time, they do not do, like poroshenko , a lot of advertising, they do not tear off their shirts, what our politicians are, you know, as i mentioned, yuliya volodymyrivna , in my opinion , she was at louis vuitton with this, with

so the ku klux klan, we see this in the context of lynch mobs. and then of course, we see this all the way until the so called self defense shootings in which, um, you know, we have african americans and people of color being done down. these are very much imbedded in the racial politics of the united states. the use of documented cases show a deadly packing of police violence against the black circle. in 2016 for lando test aisle was shot dead in his car to ring a traffic stop the 2020 brianna taylor was killed by police in her apartment in the middle of the night. in the same yes. 3 white men shots a mode operate? well, he was joking. killings that shook the country and sparked protest are now a shot prize in anti black. hate crimes has led more and more black americans to um themselves. how you doing to jo. nice to meet you ma'am. nice to meet you. i know all right, phillips macy's found and president of the national african american gun association naca. since its founding in 2015 membership has grown 245000 so black americans in the us buyin

could face financial difficulties due to a career break after giving birth. 0ur correspondent yuna ku once again broken its lowest birth rate record. according to new numbers released on wednesday by statistics korea, the country's last year birth rate recorded 0.72, which is an 8% decrease from the previous year. the capital city seoul recorded 0.55 which is the lowest among all the districts across the country. although the low birth trend is spreading all across the world, especially among developed countries, south korea is apparently showing significant downfall. after reaching its peak in 2015 with a birth rate of 1.24, the number has been falling for eight consecutive years. if this trend continues, the number of working age people in south korea is estimated to have by 2072 with half the population being over the age of 65. this is the reason why many politicians and experts are calling this situation a national emergency. but still, many young people are refusing to take part to reverse this trend. why? it is hard to give a one—size—fits—all type of answer to this question. s