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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 several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. Various commentators, including Fergus Bordewich, have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group.
While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and ...
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 finally ...
US President Joe Biden says he dropped out of his re-election bid because he feared that the intraparty battle over his candidacy would be a "real distraction" for Democrats and that his highest ...
In September 1924, the KKK held the Second Imperial Klonvocation in Kansas City. It counted an estimated 60,000 members in Kansas alone. | Opinion
Louis Beam (born 1946) Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard of the "Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan", from 1975–1981. Don Black (born 1953), formally imprisoned white nationalist and Imperial Wizard, from 1981–1987. Eldon Edwards (1909–1960), Imperial Wizard of the KKK from 1953–1960. Roy Elonzo Davis (1890-1967) Second in ...
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.
On March 8, 2020, Harris endorsed former vice president Joe Biden. [11] Harris was chosen by Biden to be his running mate on August 11, 2020. [12] Biden and Harris won the general election, and she became the first female vice president of the United States. [13]