And the information they exposed resulted in the murder indictment of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Klansman.

NPR: 'Mississippi Burning,' 41 Years Too Late

Several other leaders in the Black community who had never had a conversation with a Klansman, now were listening to and watching CP.

FORBES: Dr. King and the Klansman -- Love in a Time of Vitriol

Cajuns adored him for speaking their peculiar form of French, the blacks all the more for destroying David Duke, a Ku Klux Klansman, in one gubernatorial race.

ECONOMIST: American politics

They are flexible in their operations: one weekend a member may wear the hood of a Klansman, the next the insignia of the (equally racialist) Aryan Nations.

ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan

Thirty-eight years after an infamous church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, killed four black girls, Bobby Frank Cherry, a former Ku Klux Klansman, was finally found guilty of their murder.

ECONOMIST: Time for a fight

In Louisiana, the GOP candidate was Woody Jenkins, a controversial figure who nearly won a Senate race in 1996 but who concealed a campaign payment to ex-Klansman David Duke for his mailing lists.

NPR: GOP Nervous About Trends in Special House Races

Moseley-Braun's term was marked by controversy, including trips to Nigeria to visit the late dictator Sani Abacha, campaign finance questions and a blowup in which she compared columnist George Will to a Ku Klux Klansman.

CNN: Moseley-Braun loses to Republican Fitzgerald