The Fire Will Not Consume Us: Barry Black, Pt. 1

Weird Little Guys

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.6 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

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.

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

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0:05.3	In Marion, Illinois, an 11-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death, her father's longtime live-in
0:10.7	girlfriend maintaining innocence, but charged with her murder.
0:14.5	I am confident that Julie Beckley is guilty.
0:17.6	They've never found a weapon.
0:19.3	Never made sense.
0:20.3	Still doesn't make sense.
0:21.4	She found out she was pregnant in jail.
0:23.7	The person who did it is still out there.
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