Klansman

As Marshall shows, Black was an Alabama lawyer who was hired by the Alabama Ku Klux Klan to defend a Klansman in the cold-blooded murder of a Catholic priest who had officiated at the wedding of that Klansman's daughter to a Catholic man from Puerto Rico.

But, whoever selected a photo of a person wearing blackface next to a Klansman (in costume) for Northam's personal yearbook page acted intentionally and was surely aware of how such an image would affect fellow African-American students.

Spike Lee shares the honour with Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Wilmott, for adapting Ron Stallworth's 2014 memoir Black Klansman about infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan.

Photographs from their address also showed Thomas cradling his newborn son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman.

Photographs recovered from their home also showed Thomas cradling his newborn son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman.

Photographs recovered from their home also showed Thomas cradling his new-born son while wearing the hooded white robes of a Ku Klux Klansman. In conversation with another National Action member, Patatas said "all Jews must be put to death," while Thomas had once told his partner he "found that all non-whites are intolerable".

SICKENING Thomas cradles son dressed as Ku Klux Klansman

Fletcher, 28, of Kitchen Lane, Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, also had a race hate conviction for dressing as a Ku Klux Klansman and hanging a "golliwog" from a noose while on stage at a white pride event in 2013.

"I think to not parody them is one of the challenges for contemporary filmmakers."C The 1966 B-movie The Black Klansman, about a light-skinned black police officer (played by white actor Richard Gilden) who infiltrates the Klan to avenge his daughter's murder at the hands of local Klan members, portrayed the Klan's costuming, cross burning and lynching scenes to high melodrama.

THERE ARE MANY compelling moments in the story of Shane Johnson, the former Klansman who shares his experience for this issue's cover piece.

Edgar Ray Killen, Grand Wizard of KKK & Klansman serving a 60-year prison term for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Miss., in 1964, died on Thursday night in prison in Parchman, Miss.

The former Klansman was serving a 60-year sentence for manslaughter over the deaths of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who had been trying to sign up black voters when they were killed.