Suruthi
speaker
1,385 appearances
7 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 Jun
Suruthi’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's a horribly fun phrase, isn't it?
So yes, this little sentence that Hannah and I shouldn't like, but we do, is exactly what happened.
Yes, we are coming back to the sex scandal that brought them down in the 20s.
Because it was then that one of the most charismatic, powerful and visible Klan members was accused of rape and murder.
Now, it's important to note that this poor excuse of a man, David Curtis Stevenson, would often pose as a fearless defender of white Protestant womanhood.
So when he kidnapped and brutally tortured a woman named Madge Oberholzer, a 28-year-old schoolteacher whom he had the hots for, the Klan went through a real identity crisis.
Yes, it's very hard to be running around arguing that you're there saving white women from being raped by black men when you are also doing the raping.
So the Klansmen did actually abandon Stevenson.
And Stevenson, in a fit of vengeance, retaliated by releasing dirt on his fellow high-profile KKK members.
The Klan was suddenly seen as completely unethical.
Plus, thanks to the Great Depression, the membership fee lost its appeal.
And the Klan fizzled.
Until its third reboot during the Civil Rights era.
The new Klansmen of the 60s and 70s attacked freedom riders.
They murdered civil rights activists, they burned the houses of civil rights leaders, and they bombed churches so often that Birmingham, in the US, not in the UK, was nicknamed Bombingham.
And then, on a crisp Sunday morning in September 1963, a white man was seen placing a box under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a place where civil rights activist meetings were often held.
Within moments, the explosives detonated, claiming the lives of four young girls as they were getting ready for Sunday school.
Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Carol Robertson and Cynthia Wesley.
Addie's sister Sarah lost her eyesight in the bombings.
And the last thing she remembered before the explosion was asking her big sister to tie the bow of her church dress.
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