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The Ku Klux Klan ( / ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/ ), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. Various commentators, including Fergus Bordewich, have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group.
Harris in 1882, the Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Klan Act unconstitutional, but by that time the Klan had practically disappeared. It disappeared because its original objective—the restoration of white supremacy throughout the South—had been largely achieved during the 1870s.
White supremacy is founded on the narrative of a specifically gendered and racialised threat – the threat from “other” men to “native” women and children.
A Ku Klux Klan member dangling a noose from an automobile in an effort to intimidate African American voters in Miami, Florida, May 3, 1939. During the Great Depression of the 1930s the Klan’s membership dropped drastically, and the last remnants of the organization temporarily disbanded in 1944. For the next 20 years the Klan was quiescent ...
In his past: a stint as the grand wizard of the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; pseudonymous authorship of a number of direct-mail self-help books that included Finders Keepers, a ...
Rather than using the existing political process to implement racist policy, which white supremacist groups, like the Ku Klux Klan, worked to do in the 20th century, Mr. Mason wrote about wanting ...
The Ku Klux Klan is an American white supremacist hate group. [1] It was started in Pulaski, Tennessee [2] on December 24, 1865 and quickly spread among European Americans in the southern United States. Most of its hate has been towards African Americans, but it has also attacked Catholics, Jews and immigrants. Known as the KKK for short, it ...
