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Bookmark or Share- Ku Klux Klan: Origin, Members & Facts | HISTORYFounded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction -era...
- Ku Klux Klan - Revival, Racism, Terrorism | BritannicaKu Klux Klan - Revival, Racism, Terrorism: The 20th-century Klan had its roots more directly in the American nativist tradition. It was organized in 1915 near Atlanta, Georgia, by Col. William J. Simmons, a preacher and promoter of fraternal orders who had been inspired by Thomas Dixon’s book The Clansman (1905) and D.W. Griffith’s film The ...
- Ku Klux Klan - WikipediaThe Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuːklʌksˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [ e ] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
- Ku Klux Klan - Southern Poverty Law CenterIn 1865, at the conclusion of the Civil War, six Confederate veterans gathered in Pulaski, Tennessee, to create the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante group mobilizing a campaign of violence and terror against the African American people that benefited from the progress of Reconstruction.
- The History of the KKK in American Politics - JSTOR DailyThis isn’t the first time that so-called white nationalists have been involved with American politics. In the 1920s, during what historians call the Ku Klux Klan’s “second wave,” Klan members served in all levels of government. The Klan didn’t start as a political force, but as a lark.
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