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KKK Goes to College BY CAROL O'CONNOR and we feei yOUth involvement An investigation of the inci- David Duke of Metairie, La., is vital," he said. dent found that the six is a "Grand Wizard" intheKu Activities on college White Marines had a .357 Klux Klan who claims to have campuses are "low-key" and magnum revolver, eight night travelled to several private and designed to appeal to the aver- sticks, a knife, KKK literature public universities the past two a9e White student who is and a list of 17 persons at years delivering paid lectures "tired of being pushed around Camp Pendleton in the KKK. on the White supremacist ideals by minorities," the 26-year-old Daniel Bailey, the Klan's leader of the KKK. graduate of Louisiana State at Camp Pendleton, says that His $1,200 "talks" have been University explained. When the Klan is "in the hundreds purchased by such schools as asked how many students were at the base." The Center for Vanderbilt University, involved, Duke refused to Service men's Rights in San Nashville, Tenn., the University answer claiming that the Klan Diego, Calif., said that there of Georgia, the Univeristy of does not allow that information have been at least 50 racial North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be released. incidents at the base in the past the University of Southern Calif., H® claimed, however, that three years, the University of the Pacific, there are 200 active university The Marine Corps has respon- Stockton, Calif., and Rice chapters of the KKK in the ded to the charges of Klan University in Texas. United States now. Duke's "talk" activity at Camp Pendelton by Duke claims he even had a to college audiences asserts that transferring some KKK members lecture contract at San Jose the KKK is no longer involved to other bases. The 14 soldiers State College in California until m violent acts. "All our members are expected to be charged with a "bunch of Communists and take a sworn oath which forbids conspiracy and assault to left-wingers started raising a them to partake in any illegal attempt murder. In the 1960's fuss." A student protest at the activity." when the Marine Corps found University of North Carolina Duke says that the incident some Black soldiers to be prevented Duke from espousing in November at Camp members of the Black Panthers his ideas. San Jose college Pendelton, Calif., involving those soldiers were given dis- officials could not confirm or Black and White Marines is just honorable discharges, accord- deny Duke's claim that he has an example of "how the Jewish ing to Liberation News Service. been given a lecture-corrt*a«i and minority members mani- "Why some of the nicest, He says that when he appears pulate tne luerOe ia this friendliest people I know are before a college audience he country." The attack, which members of the Klan," Duke doesn't wear his white gown and resulted in injuries to six White said. "In Boston I met many cap. "We try to be as profes- soldiers and placed 14 Black people on the southside who sional as possible about this, soldiers in the brig, "was for no were receptive to the Klan's The Klan is in a growing period good reason," he said. a y K Continued page 3
Object Description
Title | KKK Goes to College |
Date | 1977-02-04 |
Creator | O'Connor, Carol |
Biographical/historical note | Carol O'Conner wrote for The Collegian, Greensboro College's student newspaper, in the late 1970s. |
Subject headings | Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) |
Topics | Ku Klux Klan |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | In this February 4, 1977 article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, Carol O'Connor describes how Grand Wizard David Duke traveled to several college and university campuses delivering a message of white supremacy. The article notes the number (200) of Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapters that Duke claimed were active in universities across America. The article also noted how different states were dealing with and handling the KKK in the mid 1970s. |
Type | text |
Original format | clippings |
Original dimensions | 6.8"x6.2" |
Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : Greensboro College (N.C.) |
Language | en |
Contributing institution | Brock Museum, Greensboro College |
Source collection | Collegian (Civil Rights Clippings) |
Rights statement | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/ |
Additional rights information | COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material. |
Object ID | GC_CollegianCRG.0775 |
Digital publisher | The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/ |
Sponsor | LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html |
OCLC number | 884367578 |
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Title | Page 1 |
Full text | KKK Goes to College BY CAROL O'CONNOR and we feei yOUth involvement An investigation of the inci- David Duke of Metairie, La., is vital," he said. dent found that the six is a "Grand Wizard" intheKu Activities on college White Marines had a .357 Klux Klan who claims to have campuses are "low-key" and magnum revolver, eight night travelled to several private and designed to appeal to the aver- sticks, a knife, KKK literature public universities the past two a9e White student who is and a list of 17 persons at years delivering paid lectures "tired of being pushed around Camp Pendleton in the KKK. on the White supremacist ideals by minorities," the 26-year-old Daniel Bailey, the Klan's leader of the KKK. graduate of Louisiana State at Camp Pendleton, says that His $1,200 "talks" have been University explained. When the Klan is "in the hundreds purchased by such schools as asked how many students were at the base." The Center for Vanderbilt University, involved, Duke refused to Service men's Rights in San Nashville, Tenn., the University answer claiming that the Klan Diego, Calif., said that there of Georgia, the Univeristy of does not allow that information have been at least 50 racial North Carolina at Chapel Hill, to be released. incidents at the base in the past the University of Southern Calif., H® claimed, however, that three years, the University of the Pacific, there are 200 active university The Marine Corps has respon- Stockton, Calif., and Rice chapters of the KKK in the ded to the charges of Klan University in Texas. United States now. Duke's "talk" activity at Camp Pendelton by Duke claims he even had a to college audiences asserts that transferring some KKK members lecture contract at San Jose the KKK is no longer involved to other bases. The 14 soldiers State College in California until m violent acts. "All our members are expected to be charged with a "bunch of Communists and take a sworn oath which forbids conspiracy and assault to left-wingers started raising a them to partake in any illegal attempt murder. In the 1960's fuss." A student protest at the activity." when the Marine Corps found University of North Carolina Duke says that the incident some Black soldiers to be prevented Duke from espousing in November at Camp members of the Black Panthers his ideas. San Jose college Pendelton, Calif., involving those soldiers were given dis- officials could not confirm or Black and White Marines is just honorable discharges, accord- deny Duke's claim that he has an example of "how the Jewish ing to Liberation News Service. been given a lecture-corrt*a«i and minority members mani- "Why some of the nicest, He says that when he appears pulate tne luerOe ia this friendliest people I know are before a college audience he country." The attack, which members of the Klan," Duke doesn't wear his white gown and resulted in injuries to six White said. "In Boston I met many cap. "We try to be as profes- soldiers and placed 14 Black people on the southside who sional as possible about this, soldiers in the brig, "was for no were receptive to the Klan's The Klan is in a growing period good reason," he said. a y K Continued page 3 |