Last week, Shanon Terry, Lawrence County school board chair and chair of the county's Republican Party, posted a picture of a GOP elephant on Facebook with Ku Klux Klan hoods portrayed through the legs.

At 110 years old, Pearl Bassett was the oldest living member of the NAACP. Ms. Pearl, as she was affectionately called, joined the NAACP in 1930 after witnessing a lynching in her hometown of Marion, Indiana.