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United Klans of America

Index United Klans of America

The United Klans of America Inc. (UKA), based in Alabama, was one of the largest Ku Klux Klan organizations in the United States. [1]

43 relations: Alabama, Anti-Defamation League, Bill Baxley, Birmingham, Alabama, Bobby Frank Cherry, Burien, Washington, Civil rights movement, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Gary Thomas Rowe, Grand Wizard, Herman Frank Cash, Jesse Jackson, Ku Klux Klan, Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary, Lynching, Lynching of Michael Donald, Milford, Connecticut, Mobile, Alabama, Murder, Myocardial infarction, NAACP, North Carolina, Robert Edward Chambliss, Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan), Roy Frankhouser, Seattle, Selma to Montgomery marches, Sensitivity training, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Southern Poverty Law Center, Southern United States, Swartz, Louisiana, Talladega County, Alabama, The Fiery Cross (newsletter), Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr., Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States, United States Air Force, United States Congress, Viola Liuzzo, William Joseph Simmons, 16th Street Baptist Church, 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Anti-Defamation League

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL; formerly known as the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith) is an international Jewish non-governmental organization based in the United States.

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Bill Baxley

William Joseph Baxley II (born June 27, 1941), is an American Democratic politician and attorney from Dothan, Alabama.

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Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama and the seat of Jefferson County.

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Bobby Frank Cherry

Bobby Frank Cherry (June 20, 1930 – November 18, 2004) was an American white supremacist, terrorist, and Klansman who was convicted of murder in 2002 for his role in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.

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Burien, Washington

Burien is a suburban city in King County, Washington, United States, located south of Seattle on Puget Sound.

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Civil rights movement

The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.

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Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), formerly the Bureau of Investigation (BOI), is the domestic intelligence and security service of the United States, and its principal federal law enforcement agency.

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Gary Thomas Rowe

Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. (August 13, 1933 - May 25, 1998), known in Witness Protection as Thomas Neil Moore, was a paid informant and agent provocateur for the FBI.

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Grand Wizard

Grand Wizard was the title given to the head of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan which existed from 1865 to 1869.

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Herman Frank Cash

Herman Frank Cash (July 25, 1918 – February 7, 1994) was suspected to have been a fourth conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing of 1963.

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Jesse Jackson

Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. (né Burns; born October 8, 1941) is an American civil rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary

Ku Klux Klan nomenclature has evolved over the order's nearly 160 years of existence.

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Lynching

Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Lynching of Michael Donald

The lynching of Michael Donald in Mobile, Alabama in 1981 was one of the last lynchings in the United States.

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Milford, Connecticut

Milford is a city within Coastal Connecticut and New Haven County, Connecticut, between Bridgeport, Connecticut and New Haven, Connecticut.

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Mobile, Alabama

Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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Myocardial infarction

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly known as a heart attack, occurs when blood flow decreases or stops to a part of the heart, causing damage to the heart muscle.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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North Carolina

North Carolina is a U.S. state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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Robert Edward Chambliss

Robert Edward Chambliss (January 14, 1904 – October 29, 1985), also known as Dynamite Bob, was a terrorist convicted in 1977 of murder for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963.

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Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan)

Robert Marvin Shelton (June 12, 1929 – March 17, 2003) was a former car-tire salesman and printer who became nationally famous as the Imperial Wizard of United Klans of America (UKA), a Ku Klux Klan group.

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Roy Frankhouser

Roy Everett Frankhouser, Jr. (also spelled "Frankhauser"), (November 4, 1939 – May 15, 2009) was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, by William Bryk in New York Press, February 25, 2003 a member of the American Nazi Party, a government informant, and a security consultant to Lyndon LaRouche.

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Seattle

Seattle is a seaport city on the west coast of the United States.

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Selma to Montgomery marches

The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama to the state capital of Montgomery.

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Sensitivity training

Sensitivity training is a form of training with the goal of making people more aware of their own goals as well as their prejudices, and more sensitive to others and to the dynamics of group interaction.

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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an African-American civil rights organization.

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Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.

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Swartz, Louisiana

Swartz is a census-designated place (CDP) in Ouachita Parish in northeastern Louisiana, United States.

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Talladega County, Alabama

Talladega County is a county of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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The Fiery Cross (newsletter)

The Fiery Cross was published by the United Klans of America mainly to attract the attention of "on-the-low" Whites, allowing them to be connected with the Klan without fear of others knowing they themselves are members, a white-supremacist group headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

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Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr.

Thomas Edwin Blanton Jr. (born 1938) is an American terrorist and convicted felon, currently serving a life sentence for his role as conspirator in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963 which killed four young African-American girls (Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins, and Denise McNair).

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Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Tuscaloosa is a city in and the seat of Tuscaloosa County in west central Alabama (in the southeastern United States).

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aerial and space warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Congress

The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.

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Viola Liuzzo

Viola Fauver Gregg Liuzzo (April 11, 1925 – March 25, 1965) was a Unitarian Universalist civil rights activist from Michigan.

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William Joseph Simmons

William Joseph Simmons (May 6, 1880 – May 18, 1945) was the founder of the second Ku Klux Klan on Thanksgiving of 1915.

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16th Street Baptist Church

The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, that is frequented predominantly by African Americans.

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16th Street Baptist Church bombing

The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was an act of white supremacist terrorism which occurred at the African American 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sunday, September 15, 1963, when four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church.

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Redirects here:

Donald v. United Klans of America, United Klans of America Inc..

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Klans_of_America

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