Volume 17 , Issue 24

NW Okie's Journey

This week we bring reminders of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and more history of the violence of White Supremacists groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). I do NOT believe in the KKK or their ideology.

Their violence, hate, fear-mongering needs to be stopped. How can we educate people to bring a stop to the Domestic terrorists of the KKK and other hate groups?

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Well! I hope the "Dog Days of Summer" aren't be to hard on you humans and your animals. NW Okie is keeping great watch over this short-nosed Pug in Houston's hot, humid climate. I'm just glad it isn't like the "Dirty Thirties" NW Okie has me researching right now.

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One Hundred Years Ago, 20 July 1915

One hundred years ago today 20 July 1915, The Tulsa Daily World reported with front page headlines: "Murdered Man Strikes Terror By Going Home." A man believed to have been murdered, and identified in the morgue by relatives as their kin, returned today to his awe-stricken family.

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(1920) The Ku Klux Klan

It was 2 December 1920 that The Bystander news paper out of Des Moines, Iowa reported the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had been revived and an extension organization program was under way for the "Maintenance of white supremacy." This 1920 article proves that the KKK was all about "Maintenance of white supremacy," and forming again in the 1920's.

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(1921) Ku Klux Klan March In Dallas

Another proof appears in The Durant Weekly news, 27 May 1921, Friday,that the KKK was organizing, forming in the 1920's to purge America of blacks and create, and maintain their anti-negroes agenda for "White Supremacy."

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Ku Klux Klan 21st Century

The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country.

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(1896) White Supremacists Shoot One Negro

The Morning Times, 9 April 1896, reported on its front page newspaper from Opelousas, Louisiana, 8 April 1896: "Do Not Want The Militia." Louisiana elections assume a less dangerous aspect. White Supremacists shoot one negro, but he escapes with his life, in St. Landry Parish.

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The Early Life & Songs of Woody Guthrie

It was 14th of July 1912 that Oklahoma's famous singer, songwriter Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was born in Okemah, Okfuskee county, Oklahoma, the son of Nora Belle (Sherman) and Charles Edward Guthrie. Woody Guthrie died from complications of Huntington's disease, 3rd of October 1967. Read more of Woody Guthrie's Early Life

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