The Look of HateJimmy picked up a copy of the Columbia Spectator and flipped through the pages as he waited for a member of the dean’s staff to invite him into the office suite. His early departure from the symposium provided a rare experience for him—he had time to kill, so he continued reading the popular college newspaper. My God, he thought. Page four, upper right-hand corner, the prominent KKK ad caught his eye.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 4, 1919
SCHOLARLY DISCUSSION
THE KKK AND YOU
6:00 P.M.—ARMSTRONG HALL
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED
He thought, Discussions of the KKK in New York over tea and cookies. Hard to believe the university permits this kind of thing as free speech. Not exactly what our founding fathers had in mind. He rubbed his brow. Or is it?
“Mr. Montgomery, right this way,” t
