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The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first ...
Pegram's work results in a comprehensive history of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s. This is a period when the Klan experienced a resurgence of popularity. According to Pegram, the Klan's power to attract was based on its capabilities of speaking to the fears and anxieties of white Protestant Americans during a time of rapid social and cultural change, including the rise of pluralism, after ...
In response to de jure racism, protest and lobbyist groups emerged, most notably, the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in 1909. [139] This era is sometimes referred to as the nadir of American race relations because racism, segregation, racial discrimination, and expressions of white supremacy all increased
The nadir of American race relations was the period in African-American history and the history of the United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country, and particularly anti-black racism, was more open and pronounced than it had ever been during any other period in the nation's history.
Frank Eugene Farnsworth (1868–1926) was an American political organizer who was best known for being King Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in Maine. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Based in Portland, Maine , Farnsworth recruited thousands of men and women to the Ku Klux Klan during the group's peak from 1923 to 1924.
William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist and human rights activist.One of the pioneer folklore collectors during the first half of the 20th century, he is remembered for having infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s, exposing its secrets to authorities and the outside world.
Take race and racism out of the American story and very little about the country is comprehensible. The way we elect our presidents. The civil rights enshrined in the 14th Amendment that gives ...
White republished her Klan books as a three volume set in 1943, three years before her death and 21 years after her initial association with the Klan, under the title Guardians of Liberty. [ 8 ] The contents included essays entitled The Hebrew Rock , Klansmen of the Revolution , Rome's Idolatrous Shrines and Papal Prisons in America .