Truth, reconciliation, and the Ku Klux Klan

Southern Cultures

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 68-87

  Cunningham, David ^a  

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DOI: 10.1353/scu.0.0018     Document Type: Review

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1. Dennis and Chaney have made similar remarks in a variety of media accounts. For examples, see the transcript of Dennis's interview with Tavis Smiley, http://www. pbs. org/kcet/tavissmiley/archive/200506/20050622- transcript. html (accessed 4 January 2007) and Chaney's interview with the online publication Education Update, http://www. educationupdate. com/archives/2006/Feb/html/cov-murderedbutstill. htm (accessed 4 January 2007).
2. The term "matrix of involvement" was invoked by a number of participants in the conference session "Is a Verdict Enough? Reflections on Justice and Reconciliation in the Killen Trial," Southern Exposure: A Regional Summit on Racial Volence and Reconciliation, Oxford, Mississippi, 18 March 2006.
3. Renee C. Romano, "Narratives of Redemption: The Birmingham Church Bombing Trials and the Construction of Civil Rights Memory," in The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory, ed. Renee C. Romano and Leigh Raiford (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2006), 121.
4. Martha Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1998), 9.
5. Sherrilyn A. Ifill, On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2007), 156.
6. th Congress, First Session (U. S. Government Printing Office, 1967), 60-62. These groups often battled over adherents, with the White Knights and UKA in Mississippi sometimes recruiting en bloc entire klaverns away from the other organization.
7. For Klan membership figures, see U. S. House of Representatives, The Present Day Ku Klux Klan Movement. Rally description comes from personal interviews with Pete Young (5 February 2004) and George Dorsett (20 February 2005), as well as information included in the papers of Governor Dan Moore, General Correspondence, 1966, Box 150, State Highway Patrol files (Raleigh: North Carolina State Archives)
8. and "Task Force Report Appendix C," Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission (RG 283), Task Force I - Assassination, Series 10, Box 1, LBJ Library (1969).
9. Pete Young, Task Force Report, Chapter 4, Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission, Task Force I, Series 10, Box 1, LBJ Library (1969), 354.
10. This recorded material is housed at the LBJ Library, under Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission (RG 283), Task Force I - Assassination, Series 13.
11. Pete Young, "The First Angry Men," Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission, Task Force I, Series 12, Box 5, LBJ Library (1968).
12. Interview with Pete Young, 5 February 2004
13. Pete Young, "White and Black Ghettos: Similarities and Differences," Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission, Task Force I, Series 10, Box 1, LBJ Library
14. Audio Recording, Federal Records - Eisenhower Commission, Task Force I, Series 13, Tape 3, LBJ Library; Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1995).
15. Will Campbell to Bob Stone, 25 February 1966, McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi, M341, Box 50, Folder 2.
16. E. M. Beck, "Guess Who's Coming to Town: White Supremacy, Ethnic Competition, and Social Change," Sociological Focus 33, no. 2 (2000): 153-174
17. Susan Olzak, The Dynamics of Ethnic Competition and Conflict (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 1992)
18. Nella Van Dyke and Sarah A. Soule, "Structural Social Change and the Mobilizing Effect of Threat: Explaining Levels of Patriot and Militia Organizing in the United States," Social Problems 49, no, 4 (2002): 497-520
19. Will Campbell, "Used and Abused: The Redneck's Lot," in The Prevailing South: Life and Politics in a Changing Culture, ed. Dudley Clendinen (Atlanta, GA: Longstreet Press, 1988), 94.
20. The basic chronology of November 3, 1979, is described in detail in Elizabeth Wheaton, Codename Greenkil: The 1979 Greensboro Killings (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987)
21. and the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission (hereafter GTRC) Final Report, Ch. 7, available at: http://www. greensborotrc. org/1979-sequence. pdf (accessed 9 July 2006).
22. Quoted in Lorraine Ahearn, "Nov, 3, 1979: Time to Wade in the Water," Greensboro News & Record, March 20, 2005.
23. GTRC, Seeking Truth, Working for Reconciliation (2004), 5.
24. Priscilla B. Hayner, Unspeakable Truths: Confronting State Terror and Atrocity (New York: Routledge, 2001).
25. As part of the selection process, the GTCRP requested that seventeen groups, representing a wide swath of Greensboro interests, nominate a representative to the selection committee. Fourteen ultimately did so, and these representatives selected seven commissioners from a pool of sixty-seven candidates collected through a general call. See GTRC, Final Report: Executive Summary, 2, available at: http://www. greensborotrc. org/exec-summary. pdf (accessed 9 July 2006).
26. Jordan Green, "City Council splits along racial lines over truth process," Yes! Weekly (27 April-3 May 2005), 7-8
27. Greensboro News & Record, 21 April 2005, A5.
28. Minow, Between Vengeance and Forgiveness, 66
29. Amy Kingsley, "Speakers point the way forward for truth process," Yes! Weekly (5-11 October 2005), 6-9.
30. Quoted in Hayner, Unspeakable Truths, 101; emphasis in original.
31. Andrew Sheldon, email message to the Alliance for Truth and Racial Reconciliation, 17 June 2007.
32. Author interviews with Stanley Dearman, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 9 January 2006
33. and James E. Prince III, Philadelphia, Mississippi, 10 January 2006.
34. Will Campbell to GTCRP Local Task Force member Eileen Curry, http://gtrc. blogspot. com/2006/02/will-campbells-reflections-on-gtrc. html (accessed 3 December 2006)
35. GTRC, Final Report, 14
36. GTRC, Final Report: Executive Summary, 28. Both available at: http://www. greensborotrc. org (accessed 9 July 2006)
37. Edward Cone, "Council members reflect on Truth hearings," Greensboro News & Record, 9 October 2005, H3; Author interviewwith Jill Williams, Greensboro, North Carolina, 15 November 2006.