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as we are reminded in the responses below.
Ptah
(34,143 posts)niyad
(133,640 posts)cbabe
(6,754 posts)Facing South
https://www.facingsouth.org 2022 10 archives-segrest-klan-attack-schools
From the Archives: The Klan attack on schools - Facing South
In 1984, Mab Segrest reported on the Ku Klux Klan's activities in North Carolina public schools in the context of the wider conservative backlash against racial integration and that year's elections. We republish her Southern Exposure report amid another conservative political backlash against public schools, which the Klan is using for its own purposes.
Education Week
https://www.edweek.org leadership racist-bomb-threats-and-post-civil-war-school-burnings-a-scholar-connects-the-dots 2022 03
Racist Bomb Threats and Post-Civil War School Burnings: A Scholar ...
Hundreds of Black schools built during Reconstruction were burned, but racist violence against schools is hardly a historical footnote.
Southern Poverty Law Center
https://www.splcenter.org resources reports ku-klux-klan-history-racism
Ku Klux Klan: A History of Racism - Southern Poverty Law Center
This report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan, America's first terrorist organization, was prepared by the Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law
BlueTsunami2018
(5,044 posts)Its a time honored tradition in this country.
mahatmakanejeeves
(70,486 posts)While most people know that students were killed at Kent State in 1970, very few know about the murder of students at Jackson State (1970) and even less about South Carolina State College in Orangeburg (1968).
On Feb. 8, 1968, 28 students were injured and three were killed most shot in the back by the state police while involved in a peaceful protest in Orangeburg, South Carolina. One of the by-standers, Cleveland Sellers, was arrested for inciting a riot and sentenced to a year in prison. Later serving as president of Voorhees College, he was the only person to do time.
niyad
(133,640 posts)Wednesdays
(22,996 posts)Happened in Bath, Michigan in 1927.
A disgruntled former school administrator rigged a dynamite time bomb at the elementary school, and blew up the school while in session. After the detonation, he drove up to the site, confronted the school superintendent, and detonated another bomb in his truck, which killed himself, the superintendent, and three others. He had also murdered his wife the night before.
In all, 45 people were killed, including 38 children. The story was overshadowed by Charles Lindbergh's transatlantic flight just a few days later, and is mostly forgotten now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath_School_disaster