Justice Hugo Black - KKK - Anti-Catholic??
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Black was asked to defend the Reverend Edwin R. Stephenson, a Klansman who had been accused of shooting to death Rev. James Coyle, leader of the large Catholic community at Saint Paul's Parish in Birmingham, in a trial where the presiding judge, as well as several members of the jury, were Klansmen. Black is reported to have approached prosecution witnesses with the question "You're a Catholic, aren't you?" in an attempt to discredit them before the Klan-dominated jury.[citation needed] The jury ultimately acquitted Stephenson. Some scholars, such as Daniel L. Dreisbach of the American University, believe that Hugo Black's later support for a separation of church and state was based on such an anti-Catholic animus. Black became a member of the Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1, a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, in 1923.[2] He claimed that he remained in the KKK only until 1925, and that during that time attended no more than four meetings before his resignation. However, in 1926, he not only attended a State Convention of the KKK but addressed the delegates as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black
Here's and excerpt from what Wiki about Justice Hugo Black:
Black was asked to defend the Reverend Edwin R. Stephenson, a Klansman who had been accused of shooting to death Rev. James Coyle, leader of the large Catholic community at Saint Paul's Parish in Birmingham, in a trial where the presiding judge, as well as several members of the jury, were Klansmen. Black is reported to have approached prosecution witnesses with the question "You're a Catholic, aren't you?" in an attempt to discredit them before the Klan-dominated jury.[citation needed] The jury ultimately acquitted Stephenson. Some scholars, such as Daniel L. Dreisbach of the American University, believe that Hugo Black's later support for a separation of church and state was based on such an anti-Catholic animus. Black became a member of the Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1, a branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, in 1923.[2] He claimed that he remained in the KKK only until 1925, and that during that time attended no more than four meetings before his resignation. However, in 1926, he not only attended a State Convention of the KKK but addressed the delegates as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black