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- <title>
- Jan. 11, 1993: Kross Out:the Sequel
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 11, 1993 Megacities
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 14
- Kross Out: the Sequel
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- <body>
- <p>Christmas in Cincinnati is haunted by the Ghost of Hatred Present
- </p>
- <p> First it was up. Then it was down. Then up, then down. Up
- again, down again. Then up one last time before Cincinnati was
- finally rid of the specter of a cross raised by the Ku Klux
- Klan. The hate group's permit to display the cross finally
- expired a day before New Year's Eve. For nine days the cross
- inspired a festival of civil disobedience. Four times the Klan
- put it up, and three times protesters knocked it down. The list
- of those arrested for anti-Klan actions included seven whites
- and six blacks. Ironically, the Klan was backed by a federal
- court decision requiring the city to permit the placement of a
- Hanukkah menorah in another part of Fountain Square. Now some
- residents wonder if a beloved local gathering place will ever
- be the same. Reflected one: "Fountain Square has been a place
- where we only celebrated those things that brought us together."
- The day after the Klan's cross disappeared, a local group raised
- another, to "bring dignity back to the cross that has been taken
- away by the Klan."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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