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Jane Snyder attending KKK event, 8 September 1925. Women of the Ku Klux Klan (WKKK), also known as Women's Ku Klux Klan, and Ladies of the Invisible Empire, held to many of the same political and social ideas of the KKK but functioned as a separate branch of the national organization with their own actions and ideas.
The sources of the rituals, titles and even the name of KKK may be found in antebellum college fraternities and secret societies such as the Kuklos Adelphon. [1] Earlier source material, however, states, The ceremony of initiation was borrowed from some of the features of the introduction of candidates of the long defunct Sons of Malta and other like societies, and was calculated to, and did ...
Three Ku Klux Klan members at a 1922 parade In this 1926 cartoon, the Ku Klux Klan chases the Catholic Church, personified by St. Patrick, from the shores of America. Among the "snakes" are various supposed negative attributes of the Church, including superstition, the union of church and state, control of public schools, and intolerance.
They overtook the Oldsmobile and shot directly at Liuzzo, mortally wounding her twice in the head. The car veered into a ditch, crashing into a fence. The men were found to be members of the local Ku Klux Klan, including Gary Thomas Rowe, an FBI informant. [11] The bullets missed Moton, but he was covered with Liuzzo's blood.
The Ku Klux Klan and local police organized a caravan to intimidate the protesters and the African American community in Jonesboro. [8] Thomas and Kirkpatrick organized a twenty men group to protect the citizens of Jonesboro, starting the Deacons. [8] Thomas, who had military training, quickly emerged as the leader of this budding defense ...
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 ...
Keshia Thomas (born c. 1978) is an African-American woman and human rights activist known for a 1996 event at which she was photographed protecting a man believed to have been a Ku Klux Klan supporter.
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 ...