... , Connecticut. In the fall of 1931, he enrolled in Choate, a Connecticut boarding school dominated by the old Yankee aristocracy. An arch-conservative institution, Choate excluded Jews and barely tolerated Roman Catholics. JFK was following in his brother's footsteps--Joe Jr., athletic and popular, was a celebrity of sorts around Choate's campus. JFK's time there was less successful: he felt ... , a rogue, and a financial failure. Marrying into the Kennedy clan, then, offered Jackie Kennedy a sense of wealth and security that had been denied her during her childhood. In the Senate, meanwh...

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... one of the most active Ku Klux Klan areas in America. After the First World War the Ku Klux Klan also became exterely hostile to not only blacks, but Jews, Roman Catholics, socialists, and communists. In November 1922 a new Imperial Wizard by the name of Hiram W. Evans was elected. Under his leadership the organizations grew rapidly and in the 1920s Klansmen ... elected scores of local officials, state legislators, a few governors, several national representatives, including Earle B. Mayfield of Texas, William J. Harris of Georgia, and Hugo Black of Alabama, to the United States Senate....

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