Malverne street named for KKK leader to officially be renamed
Linder Place will become Acorn Way during a ceremony on Thursday.
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Linder Place will become Acorn Way during a ceremony on Thursday.
A college librarian wants to change the course of history after finding records of one prominent Long Island landowner's sordid past. She tells CBS2's Jennifer McLogan the local leader was a proud member of the Ku Klux Klan and even had a street named after him.
The street had been named after Paul Lindner, a 1920s village founder who also led cross burnings and KKK rallies.
Congressional panel also calls for the renaming of nine U.S. military bases that honor Confederate generals.
West Point is under fire for a plaque honoring the Ku Klux Klan. As CBS2's Jessica Moore shows us, the discovery was made during an investigation into U.S. military bases which commemorate the Confederacy.
Committee of historians, residents and students presented the village with volumes of research on Paul Lindner.
It started as a school project and has become a mission. Students at Malvene High School are lobbying for change of a street named for a village founder who was also a Ku Klux Klan leader.
A passerby discovered the fliers on cars around 2 a.m. Thursday in a parking lot off Main Street.
Ku Klux Klan fliers have been found again in a community on Long Island.
Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, an avowed white supremacist, officially signed up Friday to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana.
The fliers were found on Baker Street and at the nearby Long Island Rail Road station in Patchogue.
Donald Trump has changed his tune after initially refusing to disavow an endorsement from David Duke, saying he doesn't know anything about the former Ku Klux Klan leader.
Although the hate crimes unit is investigating, a police spokesman said the incident does not appear to be a criminal act.
The fliers were left overnight after Halloween on vehicles on Gardenia Avenue and School Street in Hampton Bays.
The fliers have a web address and a phone number for a group in Pelham, N.C.
More than a dozen leaflets were found Sunday in West Babylon and Shirley, Suffolk County police said. Similar fliers were found in Hampton Bays in July and August.
Some homeowners in the Hamptons are puzzled and angry after finding recruitment pamphlets for the Ku Klux Klan at their homes.
Frazier Glenn Cross, of Aurora, Mo., was booked into Johnson County jail on a preliminary charge of first-degree murder after the attacks Sunday in Overland Park.
The Mets' Twitter account tweeted the following: "Dice-KKK off to a quick start. He strikes out the side in the 1st inning. #NYMvsSTL"
A federal lawsuit filed by three local families in the Pine Bush community of Orange County claims the school district tolerates the harassment of Jewish students.
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Wednesday told Ku Klux Klan members who left fliers in Milford this week that they are not welcome in the state.
One-page handouts from the United Klans of America were left folded in quarters in sandwich-sized bags in driveways in Orange and Milford.
In Georgia, a Ku Klux Klan group wants to join the Peach State's "Adopt-A-Highway'' program for litter removal, which could force state officials to make difficult decisions on the application.
Four New Jersey Yeshiva students have been charged with bias intimidation after being accused of harassing a black school bus driver.
The boys attend a private school and are about 15 years old. Lakewood police did not know which school.
