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What the policing response to the KKK in the 1960s can teach about dismantling white supremacist groups today

  • Written by David Cunningham, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Washington University in St Louis
imageArchival image from 1967 shows protesters demonstrating while Ku Klux Klan members walk in a parade to support the Vietnam War.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images

During his confirmation hearing in February, Attorney General nominee Merrick Garland pledged that his first order of business would be to “supervise the prosecution of white supremacists...

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