In the late 1970s, Duke twisted his hate campaign into a fight for white rights.
Duke wanted to sell the idea that his own movement was an equal and opposite force to the push for black civil rights. In September 1977, a Chicago television host named Steve Edwards gave him the opportunity to make that case in an hourlong televised debate. Duke’s opponent was a man widely seen as America’s most influential black leader: Jesse Jackson.I don’t want to suppress anybody and the Klan is not trying to put anybody down.
No matter who said what, the fact of the broadcast was a triumph for Duke. He was being presented as a spokesman for white America, one whose ideas were worth batting around. In the 1970s, David Duke became synonymous with a certain kind of white supremacy. He built his Knights of the Ku Klux Klan up from nothing, and made it into one of the nation’s leading racist organizations.
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