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Charles Brandenburg was the Ohio leader of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Brandenburg held a gathering for the members of the KKK.. Brandenburg also invited the Cincinnati television crew to film his gathering. Although twelve members showed up, it did not stop Brandenburg from continuing. During this gathering, Brandenburg had said that “if our President, our Congress, our Supreme Court, continues to suppress the white, Caucasian race, it’s possible that there might have to be some revengance taken.” He also said, “I believe the nigger should be returned to Africa, the Jew returned to Israel.” Due to Brandenburg’s harsh, what could be taken as, threat, Ohio authorities prosecuted Brandenburg under a 1919 criminal law making it illegal to “advocate...the duty, necessity, or propriety of crime, sabotage, violence, or unlawful methods of terrorism.” Also, they prosecuted him for voluntarily assembling with any such group to promote such aims. Ohio authorities......

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