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Black was elected US senator in 1926 as a Democrat. In 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Black to the Supreme Court without knowing how active in the Klan he had been in the 1920s. He was confirmed by his fellow Senators before the full KKK connection was known; Justice Black said he left the Klan when he became a senator. [160]
The black-white-red tricolor of the German Empire was utilized as the color scheme of the Nazi flag. The color brown was the identifying color of Nazism (and fascism in general), due to its being the color of the SA paramilitaries (also known as Brownshirts ).
The flag featured a light blue Confederate Battle Flag design replacing the stars in the canton as it mimicked the first National Stars and Bars flag of the Confederate States of America. The bottom red stripe also placed the Clan's Blood Drop insignia between the word "Knights" and the letters KKK written in white.
The Black Legion was a white supremacist terrorist organization and hate group which was active in the Midwestern United States in the 1920s and the 1930s. It split off from the Ku Klux Klan and grew to prominence during the Great Depression .
Black flag – Anarchism, Islamism, Jihadism, Rebellion; Black Bauhinia flag – Pro-democracy camp (Hong Kong), Hong Kong nationalism, Hong Kong independence, opposition to Chinese state nationalism; Black-yellow-white flag – Russian ultranationalism, Russian imperialism, Russian irredentism
A bronze plaque at West Point, the United States Military Academy, shows a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan” underneath, according to a congressional commission’s report.
A protester holds up a large black power raised fist in the middle of the crowd that gathered at Columbus Circle in New York City for a Black Lives Matter Protest spurred by the death of George Floyd.
Confederate battle flag/ Confederate States Navy jack (1863–1865) (lighter blue field) Although this was not the national flag of the Confederate States of America, it was later used by racist groups to attack Black people in the American South. This flag is also commonly-known as the "Rebel flag". Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) [58]