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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 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 ...
[12] [24] [12] [25] By the time the American Civil War started in 1861, he had become one of the wealthiest men in the Southern United States, having amassed a "personal fortune that he claimed was worth $1.5 million". [26] Forrest stood 6 feet 2 inches (1.88 m) in height, weighed about 180 pounds (82 kg), rarely drank and abstained from ...
Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas, on August 21, 1891, and moved as a child with his family to Maysville, Oklahoma. After some public schooling, he started work as a printer's apprentice. [1] During World War I, he enlisted in the Army and completed officers' training. He never served overseas, but his training proved useful when he ...
Roy Elonzo Davis (April 24, 1890 – August 12, 1966) was an American preacher, white supremacist, and con artist who co-founded the second iteration of the Ku Klux Klan in 1915.
An alleged spotting of Ku Klux Klan members in Texas over the weekend set some Twitter users off. Word of the sighting quickly spread to Twitter when someone uploaded a picture of people in what ...
He was part of the original Klan and is wearing an original robe," image published in 1924 (Tennessee Virtual Archive) The First Klan is a neologism or a retronym which is used to describe the first of three distinct operational eras in the history of the Ku Klux Klan, a White supremacist domestic terrorist group in the United States.
2020s: Culture Wars. Americans are still ideologically polarized, but the intervening century has made it harder to define the battlefronts of a culture war along strictly geographic lines.