Ron Stallworth was the first black cadet to join his police division in the 1970s. He's also the first black man to hold a membership card from the KKK. YouTubeRon Stallworth showing his KKK membership card.
During one of their peaks in power, the Ku Klux Klan unknowingly let a black man into their organization. Ron Stallworth, a Colorado police officer, didn’t realize it would be so easy to trick the group that so hated him. Read More...
From rat poison to wild dogs to purposeful dehydration, there's never been a race quite like the 1904 St. Louis Marathon.Marathons today follow a simple formula. There’s a starting line and a finish line, a crowd of excited and apprehensive racers, and a clear course to follow. But the 1904 Olympic Marathon took some unexpected turns — in more ways than one.
The race, just the third in modern Olympic history, was part of the 1904 St. Read More...
The Ustaše brutalized and massacred upwards of 300,000 Serbians, 30,000 Jews, and 29,000 Romani people throughout their four-year reign of terror in Croatia. Wikimedia CommonsUstaše founder and leader of the Independent State of Croatia, Ante Pavelic, gives the Nazi salute.
“The KNIFE, REVOLVER, MACHINE GUN and TIME BOMB; these are the idols, these are bells that will announce the dawning and THE RESURRECTION OF THE INDEPENDENT STATE OF CROATIA.”
— Ante Pavelic, writing the first editorial in the Ustaše newspaper, 1931. Read More...
