Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The First Klan, or the Reconstruction Klan, was followed by the Second Klan, which reached its peak in the 1920s, and the Third Klan, which has been extant since the 1960s. According to historian Carl N. Degler, "Aside from the name, about the only common trait that the three Klans possess is vigilantism." [1]
Depiction of Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina in 1870, based on a photograph taken under the supervision of a federal officer who seized Klan costumes. The first Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865, [29] by six former officers of the Confederate Army: [30] Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin ...
Samuel W. Roper (April 10, 1895 – March 1, 1986) was an American law enforcement official and Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).. Roper was an Atlanta, Georgia police officer and the second Director of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
Kloran of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada. The Kloran (from Klan and Koran [1]) is the handbook of the Ku Klux Klan. Versions of the Kloran typically contain detailed descriptions of the role of different Klan members as well as detailing Klan ceremonies and procedures. The letters Kl were often used at the beginning of words to delineate a Klan ...
In 1955, Edwards created his own organization, "U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", and established a 15,000 strong following in nine south eastern American states. [3] In the late 1950s, Edwards joined forces with Roy Elonzo Davis who was Imperial Wizard of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the founding members of the ...
Since the foundation of the original Klan, a number of Ku Klux Klan groups and chapters have emerged outside the United States in places like Canada, Europe and South America. Fiji had a Ku Klux Klan group which was founded by Europeans and the group was said to be the Klan's first foreign chapter. However, the group's activities were quickly ...
Caleb A. Ridley (August 22, 1873– January 22, 1932) was Imperial Kludd (National Chaplain) of the 1915 Ku Klux Klan, appointed to the position by Imperial Wizard William Joseph Simmons. Ridley was a Baptist minister and spoke on behalf of the KKK at rallies in the 1910s and 1920s.
Jim Williams (c. 1830 – March 6, 1871) was an African-American soldier and militia leader in the 1860s and 1870s in York County, South Carolina.He escaped slavery during the US Civil War and joined the Union Army.