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A sexual scandal in the Ku Klux Klan's national leadership in 1925, and local actions by opponents who were determined to unmask the secrecy of Klan members, caused the Klan's membership to drop rapidly through the late 1920s. Like the KKK, the Black Legion was largely made up of native-born, working-class, Protestant white men in the Midwest ...
Detroit was unique among northern cities by the 1940s for its exceptionally high percentage of Southern-born residents, both black and white. [3] In this era of continuing high immigration from southern and eastern Europe, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in the 1920s established a substantial presence in Detroit during its early 20th-century revival. [4]
Church of the Ku Klux Klan [8] Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [9] East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire [10] Exalted Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [11] Honorable Sacred Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [12] Imperial Klans of America [13] International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [14] Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [15]
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.
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 ...
Virgil Herbert "Bert" Effinger (August 7, 1873 – October 15, 1955) was a renegade member of the Ku Klux Klan who became the self-proclaimed leader of the Black Legion in the United States, active mostly in Ohio and Michigan.
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.
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 the 19th century after the American Civil War by six officers of the Confederate Army.