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Ku Klux Klan
The Oxford Companion to American Literature
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1995
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Ku Klux Klan, secret terrorist society widespread in the South during Reconstruction. It intended to keep freed blacks subservient, and used various methods of instilling fear, ranging from masks, flowing white robes, and horseback parades to raids by night, whippings, and tarring and feathering. It figures in Thomas Dixon's
The Clansman, Evelyn Scott's
A Calendar of Sin, and Robert Lewis Taylor's
A Voyage to Matecumbe. The more recent Ku Klux Klan movement has been nationwide, originating in Georgia (1915) but spreading, as an outgrowth of World War I emotionalism, to many Northern regions. Based on a program of white supremacy, native Americanism, fundamentalism, anti‐Semitism, and anti‐Catholicism, it had considerable political influence, especially in the early 1920s. The opposition of many Southerners to civil‐rights legislation caused the Klan's revival in the 1960s, and it was joined by other extremist organizations that adopted some variation of its name.
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KU Info resource for U. Kansas students
News Wire article from: University Wire; 12/9/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...only number she could remember. 864-3506. KU Info. "We were the number in that moment...said Joe White, Dodge City senior and the KU Info worker who took the call. For more than 30 years, KU Info has been students' dependable source...
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PR Newswire; 3/18/1997; 700+ words
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Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 3/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...to affiliation negotiations between the KU School of Medicine and Missouri-based...negotiations with St. Luke's until the (KU) Hospital and school have a final agreement," said Irene Cumming, KU Hospital president and chief executive officer...
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Newspaper article from: The Manila Times; 10/21/2007; 700+ words
; ...although at all the departments of the KU around 22 to 29 classes, out of the said...held, according to sources placed at the KU campus. OFFICIAL HOLIDAYS: As many as 27 official holidays were being observed at the KU, including eight Sundays during the said...
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Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 5/19/2007; 700+ words
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PR Newswire; 4/25/1995; 700+ words
; LEXINGTON, Ky., April 25 /PRNewswire/ -- At the Annual Meeting of Shareholders of KU Energy Corporation (KU Energy) (NYSE: KU) held today, the following were elected as Directors of the Company for a three-year term expiring...
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PR Newswire; 7/25/1997; 700+ words
; RICHMOND, Va., July 25 /PRNewswire/ -- KU Energy (NYSE: KU) and LG&E Energy (NYSE: LGE) today jointly...seeking authorization to merge the two companies. KU Energy operates in Virginia as Old Dominion Power (ODP...
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PR Newswire; 4/4/1994; 700+ words
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KU students convey messages of sympathy, encouragement.
Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 4/18/2007; 700+ words
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KU Hospital leader resigns.
Newspaper article from: Journal-World (Lawrence, Kansas); 3/20/2007; 700+ words
; ...negotiations between Kansas University Hospital and KU Medical Center unresolved, KU Hospital President Irene Cumming is planning her exit...directly when asked about our views." Cumming, KU Hospital's president and chief executive officer...
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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KU Energy Corporation
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
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Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
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Ku Klux Klan
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Ku Klux Klan , designation mainly given to two...important groups have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organization that thrived in...I. Subsequent groups calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan sprang up in much of the South after...
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Pan Ku
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Pan Ku Pan Ku (32-92) was a Chinese historian and man of letters. His name is mainly...its record at about 90 B.C. Pan Piao (died A.D. 54), father of Pan Ku attempted to repair this deficiency by continuing the Shih-chi 's account...
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