{"id":46995,"date":"2012-06-27T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-27T16:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=46995"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:04:32","slug":"how-a-kkk-leader-became-an-anti-racist-activist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/27\/how-a-kkk-leader-became-an-anti-racist-activist\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Kindness of a Black Man Changed the Mind of a KKK Kingpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbcbaptistpress.org\/printerfriendly.asp?ID=15196\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-46998\" title=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/05\/13.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>Raised by a racist father, Johnny Lee Clary joined the Klan in 1963 at the age of 14. By 30, he had risen through the ranks and was named the Imperial Wizard, the leader of the entire organization. \u00a0He was an outspoken advocate of white supremacy and violence against non-whites, even appearing on the Oprah Winfrey show.<\/p>\n<p>In this four-minute video, he discusses his association with Reverend\u00a0Wade Watts, a Black civil rights activist and member of the NAACP. \u00a0Watts expressed kindness and love towards Clary, even in the face of escalating violence (Clary ultimately set fire to his church). \u00a0Deeply affected by Watts, Clary would eventually recant his association with the KKK and join Watts in the fight against racism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4NW3RLnXmTY?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raised by a racist father, Johnny Lee Clary joined the Klan in 1963 at the age of 14. By 30, he had risen through the ranks and was named the Imperial Wizard, the leader of the entire organization. \u00a0He was an outspoken advocate of white supremacy and violence against non-whites, even appearing on the Oprah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,253,283,285,42],"class_list":["post-46995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-history","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-raceethnicity","tag-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46995"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58315,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46995\/revisions\/58315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}