June 24th, 2009
People who live in a predominately Black northeast Tennessee neighborhood say the Ku Klux Klan is trying to force them out. They point to the flood of flyers from the White supremacist organization blanketing the lawns of Greeneville’s Meadowlark Subdivision. One of the flyers is titled “Wake Up White America & Take A Stand”; another is under the banner “10 Steps To A Better America.” Read the rest.
TAGS: Greeneville Tennessee, kkk, Ku Klux Klan, Meadowlark Subdivision, tennessee, white supremacy
June 8th, 2009

The brother of a Black man who was kidnapped, tied up and tossed into a Mississippi River backwater nearly a half-century ago said he is elated that an appeals court refused to free the former Klansman accused in the crime. “As I’ve said before, there was no doubt that [James Ford] Seale was guilty … so I’m glad that the 5th Circuit took a second shot at it with the whole panel,” said Thomas Moore, the 65-year-old brother of Charles Moore. Read the rest.
TAGS: Charles Moore, Civil Rights Movement, Henry Hezekiah Dee, James Ford Seale, Ku Klux Klan, lynching, Mississippi, Thomas Moore