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The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, with fifteen "charter members". [113] Its growth was based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic, Prohibitionist and anti-Semitic agenda, which reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly recent immigration.
Bibb Graves (D), (1873 – 1942) was the Governor of Alabama. He lost his first campaign for governor in 1922, but four years later, with the secret endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan, he was elected to his first term as governor. Graves was almost certainly the Exalted Cyclops (chapter president) of the Montgomery chapter of the Klan.
Nathan Bedford Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War and later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan from 1867 to 1869. Before the war, Forrest amassed substantial wealth as a cotton plantation owner, horse and cattle trader, real estate ...
Other Ku Klux Klan movements. Jeff Berry [3] (1968–2013) Samuel Bowers [4] [5] (1924–2006) David Duke (born 1950) Virgil Lee Griffin [6] (ca. 1944–2009) Thomas Robb [citation needed] (born 1946) David Wayne Hull (born 1962) [citation needed] Johnny Lee Clary (1959–2014), Imperial Wizard in 1989 of the White Knights Organization but ...
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada - A Canadian Ku Klux Klan organization that was based in Toronto. [36] Ku Klux Klan – Distrikt Nordrhein-Westfalen - A German Ku Klux Klan group operating in North Rhine-Westphalia. [37] Ku Klux Klan of Kanada - One of the most prominent KKK groups in Canada during the mid-1920s.
D. C. Stephenson. David Curtis " Steve " Stephenson (August 21, 1891 – June 28, 1966) was an American Ku Klux Klan leader, convicted rapist and murderer. In 1923 he was appointed Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan and head of Klan recruiting for seven other states. Later that year, he led those groups to independence from the national KKK ...
May 7, 1880. Harpersville, Alabama. Died. May 18, 1945. (1945-05-18) (aged 65) Atlanta, Georgia. 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. [1]
The hacker group Anonymous is threatening to unmask huge numbers of Ku Klux Klan members within the next few weeks. Anonymous threatens to reveal names of 1,000 KKK members Skip to main content