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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 ...
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 ...
The First Klan is a neologism or a retronym which is used to describe the first of three distinct operational eras in the history of the Ku Klux Klan, a White supremacist domestic terrorist group in the United States. The First Klan, or the Reconstruction Klan, was followed by the Second Klan, which reached its peak in the 1920s, and the Third ...
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War, and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.
Black later said that joining the Klan was a mistake, but he went on to say, "I would have joined any group if it helped get me votes." [5] [i] On the Supreme Court, Black wrote the opinion in Korematsu v. United States, which upheld the exclusion of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Black also wrote the opinion in Everson v.
William Joseph Simmons (May 7, 1880 – May 18, 1945) was an American preacher and fraternal organizer who founded and led the second Ku Klux Klan from Thanksgiving evening 1915 until being ousted in 1922 by Hiram Wesley Evans.
Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 states as of June 2017, a slight increase from early 2016, according to a report from the ADL.
John Galen Locke (1871 - April 2, 1935) [1] was an American white supremacist who had political influence in Colorado during the 1920s. He was part of the Ku Klux Klan, serving as Grand Dragon, and was founder for the group in Colorado. [2] [3] [4] Locke has been described as one of the most nefarious men in the history of Denver. [5]