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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 the name of an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group.
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 ...
The Enforcement Act of 1870, also known as the Civil Rights Act of 1870 or First Ku Klux Klan Act, or Force Act (41st Congress, Sess. 2, ch. 114, 16 Stat. 140, enacted May 31, 1870, effective 1871), is a United States federal law that empowers the President to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States.
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 ...
United States v. Harris, 106 U.S. 629 (1883), or the Ku Klux Case, was a case in which the US Supreme Court held that it was unconstitutional for the federal government to penalize crimes such as assault and murder in most circumstances. [1]
The hacker group Anonymous revealed the names of at least a dozen Ku Klux Klan members and their families online Friday morning. The extensive list also included ages, phone numbers, addresses and ...
The insurgent Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was formed in 1865 in Tennessee (as a backlash to defeat in the war) and it quickly became a powerful secret vigilante group, with chapters across the South. The Klan initiated a campaign of intimidation directed against blacks and sympathetic whites.
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.