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	HungryBlues: Products Of The Environment
		It turns out that Majure's sister is married to Stanley Dearman, retired editor of the Neshoba Democrat, who is well known for speaking out against the Klan in Neshoba County.
		Harlan Majure hasn't heard from his sister Carolyn in the last few days.
		When Majure's comments about the Klan were broadcast to the world, his friends and neighbors had three options: to support him, condemn him or avoid the subject.
	minorjive.typepad.com /hungryblues/2005/07/products_of_the_1.html (4247 words)

	What Harlan Majure Wanted to Say (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Harlan Majure is not a "happy camper" about the way he was treated by James McIntyre, the lawyer for Edgar Ray Killen.
		Majure, a former Mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, called the trial "a total waste of time," noting that Killen was too old and incompetent to stand trial.
		Majure said that he agreed that the lawyers did not wish to be "associated" with a "white" defense, but that the tactic was an error.
	www.nationalist.org /alt/2005/majure.html (488 words)

	Pam's House Blend
		Former Philadephia, MS mayor, cracker Harlan Majure (l) got on the stand and testified that Edgar Ray Killen (r) had a "good" reputation and was a man of character, and that the Klan "is a peaceful organization."
		Harlan Majure, who was mayor of this rural Mississippi town in the 1990s, said Edgar Ray Killen was a good man and that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion.
		Majur said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.
	www.pamspaulding.com /weblog/2005/06/omfg-former-mayor-defends-ex-klansman.html (332 words)

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		HARLAN MAJURE, FORMER MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI: Because when I was a small child, in the mid-'30s and during the Depression years, my daddy worked at a little country store and made $2 or $3 a day.
		MAJURE: Well, I'll say they were responsible for them, without schooling them, without properly training them, without giving them proper protection when they come down here, because they should have known they were coming into a hostile environment.
		MAJURE: Oh, this should not have happened, and evidently he was probably part of it, because I didn't hear the testimonies.
	www.perspectives.com /forums/forum4/48461.html (1293 words)

	Closing arguments under way in trial of Klansman accused of killing activists - Courttv.com - Trials
		Harlan Majure, who was mayor of Philadelphia, Miss., in the 1990s, said he thought the Ku Klux Klan was a peaceful organization.
		Among the last to take the stand was a former Philadelphia mayor and councilman, Harlan Majure, who told jurors that Killen had a "good" reputation and was a man of character.
		Majure," an exasperated Duncan replied, noting that Majure had long lived in Philadelphia and could scarcely avoid knowing about the violent actions of the Klan.
	www.courttv.com /trials/killen/062005_ctv.html (510 words)

	Greenwood Commonwealth - Ex-mayor calls Killen a good man
		Asked if knowing Killen was a Klansman would change his opinion, Harlan Majure replied: "No sir.
		Majure, who was mayor in the 1990s, said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.
		His comment was met with murmurs in the courtroom that included spectators from as far away as St. Louis and Georgia.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14724584&BRD=1838&PAG=461&dept_id=104621&rfi=6 (683 words)

	The Times-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Harlan Majure, who served as Philadelphia’s mayor in the 1990s and is a part-time preacher, took the stand in Killen’s defense.
		It’s important to remember Majure was mayor in the 1990s, not the 40s or 50s or 60s.
		Majure, according to reports, said the Klan “did a lot of good up here.” He said he was not personally aware of the organization’s bloody past.
	www.times-journal.com /print.lasso?wcd=4085 (380 words)

	Neshoblog: Mid-Morning Report
		The defense's next witness was Harlan Majure, a former mayor of Philadelphia, who was called as a character witness.
		Majure said Killen has "good" character, and that he saw Killen at a funeral home in Philadelphia on the night of the murders.
		Duncan also asked Majure if his opinion of Killen's character would change if he knew Killen were a member of the Ku Klux Klan.
	neshoblog.blogspot.com /2005/06/mid-morning-report.html (445 words)

	Klan is "peaceful organization," witness says today - The Clarion-Ledger
		Harlan Majure, mayor of the Neshoba County city in the 1990s, testified as the defense's presentation wound down and the case moved closer to jury deliberations.
		Majure said he stayed at the funeral home until it closed for the night, but he did not say that Killen was there the whole time he was there.
		Majure, under questioning from District Attorney Mark Duncan, said that Killen's character is "good." When asked by Duncan if he'd change his opinion if he knew Killen was a Klan member, Majure said he wouldn't.
	www.clarionledger.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050620/NEWS010702/50620001/1002 (338 words)

	Paul Harris Online: Ex-Mayor Says the KKK is OK
		The defense called a character witness named Harlan Majure, who said that the accused was a good man, and that Killen's membership in the Ku Klux Klan didn't change his opinion.
		Majure said the Klan "did a lot of good" and was a "peaceful organization." That's the same sort of nonsense spewed in support of street gangs and the mob, who may do some things to support local causes, but also do a lot more harm than good.
		If Majure is at all typical of the people in that town who made up the jury pool for this trial, then Killen is going to walk out of that courthouse a free man. As I write this on Monday night, the jury has already told the judge that they're deadlocked six to six.
	www.harrisonline.com /2005/06/ex-mayor-says-kkk-is-ok.htm (431 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Mississippi mayor backs accused (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Harlan Majure said Edgar Ray Killen was a good man and his former membership of white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan would not change his opinion.
		Mr Majure, who was mayor during the 1990s, said as far as he was aware the the KKK was a "peaceful organisation".
		Mr Majure told the packed courtroom he was not personally aware of the KKK's bloody past.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4112526.stm (217 words)

	Edgar Ray Killen gets 60 years in prison [Archive] - Yellowworld Forums
		Majure said as far as he knew it was a peaceful organization that "did some good things too."
		Majure said Killen was a "good" man whom he had known for about 50 years.
		In Mississippi, where Majure lived, 42 percent of the population was fl in 1960, but only 2 percent was registered to vote.
	forums.yellowworld.org /archive/index.php/t-24562.html (2209 words)

	John F. Sugg: Mississippi Drama: Jurors Split 6-6 on First Day of Deliberations
		At 5:30, the jury reported that it was not likely to reach unanimity Monday, so the judge recessed deliberations until Tuesday.
		Earlier in the day, Harlan Majure, who had been mayor of Philadelphia as recently as eight years ago, said he had seen Killen at a funeral home on the night of the murders.
		The defense has repeatedly argued that Killen was not at the murder scene when the three young men were killed.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/printer_062105Z.shtml (751 words)

	Outside The Tent
		Harlan Majure, the former Mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, made headlines when he testified in the Killen trial that the Ku Klux Klan was a benevolent association that did alot of good.
		MAJURE: Well, I’m saying that the people that were responsible for their death were the people that organized them, wherever, whatever times they were in, I think one or two of them from New York City.
		That is to say, as far as Harlan, is concerned the answer was probably never.
	www.outsidethetent.com /wp/archives/category/civil-rights/page/2 (2128 words)

	Defense Rests in 1964 Civil Rights Murder Case - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
		The part-time preacher is admittedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan and held a leadership position in the local Klan at the time of the murders.
		Harlan Majure, who served as mayor of the town in the 1990s took the stand in Killen's defense on Monday.
		Majure went on to say that the KKK 'did a lot of good up here' and added, ''As far as I know it's a peaceful organization.'
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2005/Jun/EEN42b70963e8a43.html (373 words)

	HandelontheLaw.com - News
		Harlan Majure, who was mayor of this rural Mississippi town in the 1990s, said Edgar Ray Killen was a good man and that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion.
		Majure said the Klan "did a lot of good up here" and said he was not personally aware of the organization's bloody past.
		His comment was met with murmurs in the packed courtroom.
	www.handelonthelaw.com /news_details.aspx?News=1025&Date=6/1/2005 (512 words)

	All The Way - August, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		PHILADELPHIA - Harlan Majure is not a "happy camper" about the way he was treated by James McIntyre, the lawyer for Edgar Ray Killen.
		Majure told the highly-publicized trial of Killen, a Sixties' anti-Communist, that the organization did a number of "good things," but McIntyre interrupted, objected and would not let him continue.
		Majure, a former Mayor of Philadelphia, Mississippi, called the show-trial "a total waste of time," noting that Killen was too old and incompetent.
	www.nationalist.org /ATW/2005/aug.html (4903 words)

	The Times Leader: Klan not 'peaceful' - - The Times Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In fact, Harlan Majure said the Klan "did a lot of good up here," and that he was not personally aware of the organization's violent, deadly past.
		We were pleased to note, however, that Sen. Robert Byrd, D, W.Va., older and surely wiser than Majure, continues to take opportunities to denounce the Klan and what it stands for.
		We are guessing the sincerity with which Byrd continues to denounce the Klan far outweighs the faith people like Majure have in its supposed goodness and peacefulness.
	www.timesleaderonline.com /edit/story/0621202005_edt01_edit21.asp (334 words)

	OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
		The Ku Klux Klan is a "peaceful organization," a former Philadelphia mayor said today to jurors in the murder trial of 80-year-old Edgar Ray Killen.
		Harlan Majure, mayor of the Neshoba County city in the 1990s, testified as the defense's presentation wound down and the case moved closer to jury deliberations.
		Majure, under questioning from District Attorney Mark Duncan, said that Killen's character is "good." When asked by Duncan if he'd change his opinion if he knew Killen was a Klan member, Majure said he wouldn't.
	www.opinionjournal.com /best/?id=110006846 (3525 words)

	Corvette Forum - South-to-South Resuscitation: Witness Praises Defendant, KKK At Mississippi Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		One person to take the stand Monday was a former mayor, who defended both Killen and the Klan.
		Harlan Majure testified that the 80-year-old Killen was a good man. And he told jurors he knew the Klan to be "a peaceful organization" that "did a lot of good" in the area.
		Another defense witness testified Monday that his brother lied last week when he told jurors he'd once overheard Killen talking about playing a role in the murders.
	forums.corvetteforum.com /printthread.php?t=1118295 (363 words)

	CBC News: Ku Klux Klan a 'peaceful' group: murder trial witness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		The Ku Klux Klan is a "peaceful organization" that did a lot of good in Mississippi over the years, a defence witness said Monday as testimony wrapped up in a triple-murder trial dating back to 1964.
		Majure, who was mayor in the 1990s, also said the part-time preacher accused of organizing the slaying of three young civil rights workers was a good man.
		After Majure's testimony Monday, the nine white and three fl jurors listened to closing arguments from both the prosecution and defence.
	www.cbc.ca /story/news/national/2005/06/20/klan-witness-killen050620.html (946 words)

	LAT: Trial Testimony About Klan Leaves Town Divided (Philadelphia, Miss.)
		Few were more conscious of that fact than (Harlan) Majure, a two-term mayor who angered many of his neighbors Monday by saying during cross-examination that, "as far as I know, the Klan was a peaceful organization."
		After watching Majure testify, Dearman recalled, he turned to his wife and said, "He has demolished everything I've been trying to do with this community."...
		Judge Marcus Gordon, who is scheduled to sentence Killen today, grew up down the road from him, and his parents attended the church where Killen preached....When Majure's comments about the Klan were broadcast to the world, his friends and neighbors had three options: to support him, condemn him or avoid the subject....
	www.democraticunderground.com /discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1573749 (396 words)

	Too little, not too late - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Editorials - News
		In fact, Chaney's mother testified that, even after her son's death, she was still victimized by threats against her and her younger son.
		In his testimony, a former mayor of Philadelphia, Harlan Majure, said, ''I know some things about the Klan that a lot of people don't know.
		The Killen verdict follows the US Senate's recent approval of a resolution apologizing for its failure to pass bills that would have made lynching a federal crime.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/06/23/too_little_not_too_late (496 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		HARLAN MAJURE, FORMER MAYOR OF PHILADELPHIA, MISSISSIPPI: I know it was.
		MAJURE: Because when I was a small child in the mid-'30s and during the Depression years, my daddy worked at a little country store and made two or three dollars a day.
		MAJURE: I say they were responsible for them without schooling them, without proper training them, without giving them proper protection when they come down here because they should have known they were coming into a hostile environment.
	premium.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0506/21/acd.01.html (7327 words)

	The Hot Seat: June 2005
		It is a rising opinion of mine that some Americans, chose to live in separate imagined reality not our own.
		In morning testimony, the former mayor of this small east Alabama town, Harlan Majure, testified as a character witness for the defense.
		Under cross-examination, Majure, who was mayor in the 1990s, said he was not aware Killen was a member of the white-supremacist group, but that the part-time preacher's Klan membership would not change his opinion.
	rogueronin.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_rogueronin_archive.html (1105 words)

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		During testimony early yesterday before deliberations began, former Philadelphia Mayor Harlan Majure described the Klan as a "peaceful organization."
		Majure, who served as mayor in the 1990s, testified he saw Killen at the funeral home the night of the slayings.
		Majure said he stayed at the funeral home until it closed for the night, but he did not say whether Killen was there the entire time he was there.
	www.tucsoncitizen.com /print/national/062105b1_killentrial (437 words)

	Demagogue: The Killen Trial and the Language of Racists
		Dearman's brother, Harlan Majure, who was at the funeral home that night, testified for the defense on Monday that he saw Mr.
		Just for the sake of clarification, Majure wasn't saying in his testimony that he thought then (i.e., in 1964) that the Klan "did a lot of good" -- he thinks today that the Klan "did a lot of good."
		Both the Klan and the racist Southerners who supported it actively or passively often inflamed passions against civil rights workers by designating them as "outsiders." (I guess the term "carpetbaggers" might have seemed slightly dated.) It's worth noting that Martin Luther King, Jr.
	demagogue.blogspot.com /2005/06/killen-trial-and-language-of-racists.html (671 words)

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		"What in the world was Killen's defense attorney thinking when he called up [former Philadelphia mayor] Harlan Majure as a character witness?" wonders Independent Sources' Insider, a self-described "South Park conservative." He continues, "...
		Majure swears that the Klan is peaceful but then tells about how they beat both fls and whites.
		He says that he isn't prejudiced but then criticizes the civil rights movement." And Mercurial Circus' Ironcat, a Canadian student, asks, "Was Killen really on trial for what he did, or is he serving as an effigy of every KKK-lynch mob?
	www.slate.com /toolbar.aspx?action=print&id=2121460 (578 words)

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