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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 ...
The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation which occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, US, when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party (ANP) shot and killed five participants in a "Death to the Klan" march which was organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP).
The bombing was committed by a white supremacist terrorist group. [1] [2] [3] Four members of a local Ku Klux Klan (KKK) chapter planted 19 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the steps located on the east side of the church. [4]
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report on Thursday outlining the activity of the Ku Klux Klan members across the U.S.. According to the report, the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United ...
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was determined to be a "terrorist organization" in 1870 by a federal grand jury, [42] and the FBI has been investigating crimes by white supremacy extremists including Klan members since 1918. [43]
The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, [1] Third Ku Klux Klan Act, [2] Civil Rights Act of 1871, or Force Act of 1871, [3] is an Act of the United States Congress that was intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. The act made certain acts committed by ...
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, often abbreviated KKK and informally known as "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present groupings. [28]The following groups have been listed as active Klan groups in the SPLC's annual reports (years in parentheses refer to the year in which the group is included):