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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 ...
He was part of the original Klan and is wearing an original robe," image published in 1924 (Tennessee Virtual Archive) 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.
Pulaski is a city in and the county seat of Giles County, which is located on the central-southern border of Tennessee, United States. The population was 8,397 at the 2020 census. [ 6 ] It was named after Casimir Pulaski , a noted Polish-born general on the Patriot side in the American Revolutionary War .
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 ...
The Pulaski riot was a race riot that occurred in Pulaski, Tennessee, on January 7, 1868.While the riot appeared to be based in a trade dispute of the previous summer between Calvin Lamberth, a white man, and Calvin Carter, an African American, it was provoked when Lamberth shot a friend of Carter's over rumored comments about the former's black mistress.
In 1926, Males admitted in front of the U.S. Senate that he was a member of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan overran Evansville and Indiana in the 1920s. That same year, Ed Jackson was elected governor.
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.
Title pages of "The Ku Klux Klan or Invisible Empire" (1914) by Laura Martin Rose. Rose was born in 1862 near Pulaski, Tennessee, the town where the Ku Klux Klan would be formed three years later. [3] After her marriage to Solon Edward Franklin Rose, she often identified herself with her husband's name, as Mrs. S. E. F. Rose.