The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Part 1

In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the mere act of burning a cross, absent evidence of specific intent to intimidate, is protected by the first amendment. But who was the klansman who got his case all the way to the highest court in the land? This is the first half of the story of Barry Black, a Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan leader who won two write-in campaigns for constable, waged war on a rural gay bar, and spent decades fighting for his right to intimidate.

Original Air Date: 10.3.24

Freedom to Burn: Barry Black, Part 2

In part two of the story of Barry Black, we finally get to the landmark supreme court case that won the klansman the right to burn crosses. Barry's Keystone Knights faded into relative obscurity after the high profile case and Virginia passed a new law aimed to prevent men like Barry from using fire as a tool of intimidation.

Original Air Date: 10.10.24

Sources - Pt. 1: 

https://www.salon.com/2009/07/24/liddy/ 

https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/litigation/berg_ac_berg_emerg_mot_proh_cert.pdfhttps://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Obama/Evidence/AFFIDAVIT-Bishop.pdf 

https://barthsnotes.com/2009/08/25/meet-ron-mcrae-the-birther-bishop/https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/278475/dykudrama/https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A266739/datastream/OCR/viewhttps://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/367cf04d6456e9b3c311296a806863cd.pdfhttps://youtu.be/o4o0tZPETAc 

https://archive.org/details/BarryE.Black/mode/2up 

Heibel, Todd (2004). Blame It on the Casa Nova?: “Good Scenery and Sodomy” in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania. In Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. Routledge.

Sources - Pt. 2: 

https://law.duke.edu/voices/virginia https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-1107https://unprecedented.substack.com/p/transcript-bodily-harm-is-cominghttps://time.com/archive/6615465/south-carolina-backfire/https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/us/georgia-kkk-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit/index.htmlhttps://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/former-kkk-headquarters-terrorized-town-years-now-will-become-diversit-rcna20865 

https://www.kait8.com/story/3384156/prison-officer-fired-for-kkk-membership-sues-arkansas-correction-department/ 

Unite the Right audio from videos by photojournalist Zach D Roberts & publicly available video recorded by the marchers themselves

The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Part 1
In 2003, the Supreme Court ruled that the mere act of burning a cross, absent evidence of specific intent to intimidate, is protected by the first amendment. But who was the klansman who got his case all the way to the highest court in the land? This is the first half of the story of Barry Black, a Pennsylvania Ku Klux Klan leader who won two write-in campaigns for constable, waged war on a rural gay bar, and spent decades fighting for his right to intimidate.
Original Air Date: 10.3.24
Freedom to Burn: Barry Black, Part 2
In part two of the story of Barry Black, we finally get to the landmark supreme court case that won the klansman the right to burn crosses. Barry's Keystone Knights faded into relative obscurity after the high profile case and Virginia passed a new law aimed to prevent men like Barry from using fire as a tool of intimidation.
Original Air Date: 10.10.24
Sources - Pt. 1: 
<a href="https://www.salon.com/2009/07/24/liddy/">https://www.salon.com/2009/07/24/liddy/ </a>
<a href="https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/litigation/berg_ac_berg_emerg_mot_proh_cert.pdf">https://www.fec.gov/resources/legal-resources/litigation/berg_ac_berg_emerg_mot_proh_cert.pdf</a> <a href="https://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Obama/Evidence/AFFIDAVIT-Bishop.pdf">https://www.wethepeoplefoundation.org/PROJECTS/Obama/Evidence/AFFIDAVIT-Bishop.pdf </a>
<a href="https://barthsnotes.com/2009/08/25/meet-ron-mcrae-the-birther-bishop/">https://barthsnotes.com/2009/08/25/meet-ron-mcrae-the-birther-bishop/</a> <a href="https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/278475/dykudrama/">https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/278475/dykudrama/</a> <a href="https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A266739/datastream/OCR/view">https://digdc.dclibrary.org/islandora/object/dcplislandora%3A266739/datastream/OCR/view</a> <a href="https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/367cf04d6456e9b3c311296a806863cd.pdf">https://archives.rainbowhistory.org/files/original/367cf04d6456e9b3c311296a806863cd.pdf</a> <a href="https://youtu.be/o4o0tZPETAc">https://youtu.be/o4o0tZPETAc </a>
<a href="https://archive.org/details/BarryE.Black/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/BarryE.Black/mode/2up </a>
Heibel, Todd (2004). Blame It on the Casa Nova?: “Good Scenery and Sodomy” in Rural Southwestern Pennsylvania. In Spaces of Hate: Geographies of Discrimination and Intolerance in the U.S.A. Routledge.
Sources - Pt. 2: 
<a href="https://law.duke.edu/voices/virginia%20https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-1107">https://law.duke.edu/voices/virginia https://www.oyez.org/cases/2002/01-1107</a> <a href="https://unprecedented.substack.com/p/transcript-bodily-harm-is-coming">https://unprecedented.substack.com/p/transcript-bodily-harm-is-coming</a> <a href="https://time.com/archive/6615465/south-carolina-backfire/">https://time.com/archive/6615465/south-carolina-backfire/</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/us/georgia-kkk-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit/index.html">https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/05/us/georgia-kkk-adopt-a-highway-lawsuit/index.html</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/former-kkk-headquarters-terrorized-town-years-now-will-become-diversit-rcna20865">https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/former-kkk-headquarters-terrorized-town-years-now-will-become-diversit-rcna20865 </a>
<a href="https://www.kait8.com/story/3384156/prison-officer-fired-for-kkk-membership-sues-arkansas-correction-department/">https://www.kait8.com/story/3384156/prison-officer-fired-for-kkk-membership-sues-arkansas-correction-department/ </a>
Unite the Right audio from videos by photojournalist Zach D Roberts &amp; publicly available video recorded by the marchers themselves

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