what did robert byrd do while in the KKK?
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I have no idea what he did.  I just know he was a member for many years.
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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as a devoted college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy in the Southern states to this day.
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I think he cared too much. He was one of the "good guys" and as they say "good guys finish last" He brought about such wonderful God ordained ideas, it is such a sad thing to see the civil rights movement in portion go astray from these ideals.
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Boy you really don't know Trent Lott!!! Being from Mississippi He has doing a lot for this state!!!! Quit watching CNN and research yourself what he has done. I bet Robert Byrd ranks high in your book huh?\nTrent Lott has fought hard for this state: Hurricane relief money for all Mississippians black and white, he wrote legislation supporting blacks, fought hard to clear the name of a falsely accused black man, and reelected this past election with high numbers from the black community!!!!!!!\nWhere is your question trashing the Klan leader Byrd?
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go down to you local kkk library, they hav everything you seak and more
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I'm sure you know he started out as a painter in love with a Jewish girl who would not have him. Inspired by his anger he touched the already unstable athmosphere of the day in Germany. Many German people felt the Jewish people, who I might add were mostly economically stable and well off, were stuck up, and that they were taking all of the jobs etc.... After that he joined a group a lot like the KKK and started speaking out from there. Eventually, he convinced enough people to follow him. In the meantime, this group (sorry I forgot the name) began storm trooper like activities which scared a lot of people (Jewish people). They began a campaigne of scare tactics, first to get german boys and men to join, then to terriose the jewish people. Many German soilders started off not having to much hostility towards the Jew's, then after tortureous activities, many became scared to speek up, because eventually the non-racist germans were in the minority. However, some remained loyal to their hearts and some sheltered the jewish families, mostly the children, but if caught would be put to death. \n\nHis rise to power became a reality because he spoke equilantly, and was full of bull.
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The name Ku Klux Klan comes from the Greek word kuklos, circle.
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yeah. didnt you see the seen before he went to that area. it was a map and i believe it was showing that he was heading into alabama or some southern state that is highly populated with african american people.
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He taught black pride and self-defense to the point of separatism.  He advocated a back-to-africa movement.  I think it was his radical ideas that initiated the black panther movement, although bobby seale and someone else officialy started it.  eventually he became less aggressive and radical, and was killed by angry black panthers because of it.
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THE PLAIN STEEL marker on Sleepy Hole Road in Suffolk pings in the winter wind. It says that James Bowser was the only Negro from Nansemond County to fight in the American Revolution. \n\nread more about it on the website...\n\nit is a college with significant ties to the black community, so there is no suprise in a building being named after him.
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This may be pretty close:\n\nFirst African-American entertained at the White House\n\nIn 1901, right after Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as President after the death of President William McKinley, he invited Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee Institute to the White House for a meeting. The meeting ran late, and TR invited Mr. Washington to dinner. This was the first time that an African-American was entertained at the White House as a guest.\n\nThe newspapers in the South went ballistic; the papers in the North weren't too supportive either. The Memphis "Scimiter" said that it was "the most damnable outrage that has ever been perpetrated by any citizen of the United States." Roosevelt claimed he had invited a friend to dinner with his family and it was no one else's business.\n\nAfter that, TR met with Booker T. Washington at the home of his sister, Anna Roosevelt Cowles, and had dinner with him there. He also met with Mr. Washington in New York City in 1910, after TR returned home from his trip to Africa and Europe. TR wanted an update about what had been happening while he was away.\n\nIn his Memorial Day speech in 1902, TR spoke out against the lynching of\nAfrican-Americans in the South. He did so several times, actually.
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First check your Napolean Complex before you reck yourself!  Your not exactly living la viva loca ... please get back on your meds ...\n\nAlthough often still discussed in contemporary American politics as representing the quintessential "fringe" end of the far-right spectrum, today the group only exists in the form of a number of very isolated, scattered "supporters" that probably do not number more than a few thousand. In a 2002 report on "Extremism in America", the Anti-Defamation League wrote "Today, there is no such thing as the Ku Klux Klan. Fragmentation, decentralization and decline have continued unabated." However, they also noted that the "need for justification runs deep in the disaffected and is unlikely to disappear, regardless of how low the Klan's fortunes eventually sink."\n\nToday the only known former member of the Klan to hold a Federal office in the United States is Senator Robert Byrd, who says he "deeply regrets" joining the Klan over half a century ago, when he was about 24 years old. There are currently no known members of the Klan who also hold a Federal office.\n\nSome of the larger KKK organizations currently in operation include:\n\n•Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan \n\n•Imperial Klans of America \n\n•Knights of the White Kamelia \n\nThere is a vast number of smaller organizations. As of 2005, there were an estimated 3,000 Klan members, divided among 158 chapters of a variety of splinter organizations, about two-thirds of which were in former Confederate states. The other third are primarily in the Midwest region. \n\nThe ACLU has provided legal support to various factions of the KKK in defense of their First Amendment rights to hold public rallies, parades, and marches, and their right to field political candidates.\n\nIn a July 2005 incident, a Hispanic man's house was burned down in Hamilton, Ohio, after accusations that he sexually assaulted a nine-year-old white girl. Klan members in Klan robes showed up afterward to distribute pamphlets.\n\nSensitivity to the highly-charged topic of the KKK is in evidence at professional baseball games. Fans will sometimes post a letter "K" (the scoring symbol for strikeout) every time the home team pitcher strikes out a batter. Typically the letters will be spaced in such a way that no three consecutive K's are run together. Another approach is to have every third one be a backwards K, although a reversed K more typically denotes a strikeout in which the batter does not swing at the third strike.
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he was very peaceful however he advocated a separation between whites and blacks. he urged blacks to start their own organizations and reject regular, white based culture to make their own unique one. He was a freedom rider as well.
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Your question drew me.What made you think of Mr Byrd and racism. I do not know Jasper well enough to call it a racist town.Racism does exist all over Texas.The worst area I have seen is Dallas.By the I way am Mexican-American.I am  a retired police officer living in Orange,Tx.Yes, there is white racism here.\nI can read your reply under your question.
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That is so sad.  I had an Uncle who was a member of the KKK for awhile.  Don't know how he ended up there, the rest of the family is not racist whatsoever.  I can't believe that people are still like that in this day and age.  Narrow mindedness is right!!!!
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He was a Confederate General.
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The second Ku Klux Klan rose to great prominence and spread from the South into the Midwest region and Northern states and even into Canada. At its peak, Klan membership exceeded 4 million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, as high as 40% in some areas. Most of the membership resided in Midwestern states.\n\nThrough sympathetic elected officials, the KKK controlled the governments of Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Oregon in addition to some of the Southern legislatures. Klan influence was particularly strong in Indiana, where Republican Klansman Edward Jackson was elected governor in 1924, and the entire apparatus of state government was riddled with Klansmen. In another well-known example from the same year, the Klan decided to make Anaheim, California, into a model Klan city; it secretly took over the city council, but was voted out in a special recall election.\n\nKlan delegates played a significant role at the pathsetting 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York City, often called the "Klanbake Convention" as a result. The convention initially pitted Klan-backed candidate William McAdoo against New York Governor Al Smith, who drew the opposition of the group because of his Catholic faith. After days of stalemates and rioting, both candidates withdrew in favor of a compromise. Klan delegates defeated a Democratic Party platform plank that would have condemned their organization. On July 4, 1924, thousands of Klansmen converged on a nearby field in New Jersey where they participated in cross burnings, burned effigies of Smith, and celebrated their defeat of the platform plank.\n\nA number of highly notable political figures in the U.S. and Canada joined the Klan or flirted with membership. The list includes two Supreme Court justices and, according to evidence which is in some cases contested, possibly two presidents.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan