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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 an American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organization and hate group.
A Ku Klux Klan flag, 1865. This early Ku Klux Klan flag is peach-colored and triangular-shaped with a wide scalloped border of lavender taffeta. There is a large black winged dragon in the center of the flag, surrounded by a Latin motto, which translates in English as: “That which always, that which everywhere, that which by all had been held ...
Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction -era...
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
For the past century, the primary symbol related to Ku Klux Klan groups (other than Klan robes themselves) is what Klan members may call the MIOAK (an acronym for "Mystic Insignia of a Klansman"). It is more commonly referred to as the "Blood Drop" Cross.
1866: A wood engraving depicting two members of the Ku Klux Klan. The white sheet and hood were supposed to represent the ghosts of Confederate soldiers risen from the dead to seek revenge.
This report on the history of the Ku Klux Klan, America’s first terrorist organization, was prepared by the Klanwatch Project of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Klanwatch was formed in 1981 to help curb Klan and racist violence through litigation, education and monitoring.
In 1865, at the conclusion of the Civil War, six Confederate veterans gathered in Pulaski, Tennessee, to create the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante group mobilizing a campaign of violence and terror against the African American people that benefited from the progress of Reconstruction.
In a July 1964 event marking the opening of the Jackson Field Office, Roy Moore is seen next to the American flag. To the right are FBI Assistant Director Cartha D. Deloach and Director J. Edgar...
Ku Klux Klan - Revival, Racism, Terrorism: The 20th-century Klan had its roots more directly in the American nativist tradition. It was organized in 1915 near Atlanta, Georgia, by Col. William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders who had been inspired by Thomas Dixon’s book The Clansman (1905) and D.W. Griffith’s film The ...