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Ku Klux Klan
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
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Ku Klux Klan (USA) A US terrorist organization with a complex system of secret and ceremonial hierarchy established in the defeated states of the South in 1866. It had the aim of intimidating African Americans and preventing them from exercising their legal rights as US citizens to vote, hold property, run for office, or enjoy equal access to economic opportunity. Following the publication of the definitive book by D. W. Griffiths,
Birth of a Nation (1915), the Klan re-emerged in altered forms while displaying its distinctive symbols—burning crosses, white robes, and hoods. Klan violence and murder spread across the entire country in the 1920s, when it boasted four million members. At that time, the Klan took as its target not just African Americans but also Roman
Catholics, Jews, foreigners, and various modes of behaviour which it considered immoral (especially relating to sex). After a long period of infighting and decline, it was energized by its opposition to the
civil rights movement in the 1960s. Since then, groups displaying Klan symbols have persisted, albeit isolated culturally and geographically.
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Rep. Serrano Introduces Resolution Condemning Recent Actions of Ku Klux Klan
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 10/3/2007; 479 words
; ...H.Res. 693) "condemning the recent actions of the Ku Klux Klan." The resolution was introduced on Sept. 27. It was...follows:H.Res. 693Condemning the recent actions of the Ku Klux Klan. Whereas the Ku Klux Klan has long preached hate...
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Again, The Ku Klux Klan Is Getting Its Obituary
Newspaper article from: New York Beacon, The; 1/6/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...a nuisance." "The Klan's gone," Robert Shelton...largest and most notorious Klan organization, the United Klans of America, Inc...paying members. "The Klan will never return" he...desegregation that the Ku Klux Klan flourished. So...
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Ku Klux Klan Group To Rally at Capitol;Permits Sought for Labor Day Activities
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 8/2/1990; ; 671 words
; A Ku Klux Klan group has received a permit to rally on the steps of the U.S. Capitol...Griffin, the founder and Grand Wizard of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a splinter group of the larger and better-known Invisible Empire...
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KU KLUX KLAN HITTING BOTTOM MORALE, INTEREST ARE LOW.(Perspective)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/11/1987; 700+ words
; ...powerful politicians, the Ku Klux Klan has fallen on hard...behalf of KKK victims. The Klan's most crushing setback...Robert Shelton's United Klans of America to pay $7 million...National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "Robert Shelton and the...
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The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly; 12/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872...the South Carolina Ku Klux trials began, the...and white, from Klan intimidation and...the plight of the Klan's victims, is...denouement of the Ku Klux Klan trials constituted...
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The Invisible Empire: the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. By Michael Newton. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault...2120-0.) This excellent monograph is a history of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Florida from Reconstruction to 1999...
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GROUP QUESTIONS N.E.'S CLIMATE FOR KU KLUX KLAN
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/15/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...HAVERHILL - The specter of the Ku Klux Klan spreading across New England...behind the recent flurry of Klan activity, Greenberg said...also said his branch of the Klan, formally known as the...Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, doesn't burn crosses...
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The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida
Magazine article from: The Journal of Southern History; 11/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida. By Michael Newton. Foreword by Raymond Arsenault...2120-0.) This excellent monograph is a history of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) in Florida from Reconstruction to 1999...
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Death of the Ku Klux Klan? // Government, civil suits take effect
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/30/1987; ; 700+ words
; ...powerful politicians, the Ku Klux Klan has fallen on hard...behalf of KKK victims. The Klan's most crushing setback...Robert Shelton's United Klans of America to pay $7 million...National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "Robert Shelton and the...
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Harvard Scholar Whitewashes the Ku Klux Klan
Magazine article from: The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education; 4/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...history of violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan. It is asserted that the Klan was...Economic Research proposes that the Ku Klux Klan was not so much a terrorist...heinous crimes were perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan. Clearly, Fryer and Levitt ...
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Ku Klux Klan
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
Ku Klux Klan / ˈkoō ˌkləks ˈklan / (abbr.: KKK ) an extremist right-wing secret society in the U.S. DERIVATIVES: Ku Klux·er n. Ku Klux Klans·man / ˈklanzmən / n. ( pl. -men ) .
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Ku Klux Klan Act
Encyclopedia entry from: West's Encyclopedia of American Law
KU KLUX KLAN ACT The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 (ch. 22, 17 Stat. 13 [codified as amended...Ct. 601, 27 L. Ed. 290). This and other rulings stripped the Ku Klux Klan Act of much of its power. Like many other civil rights laws from its...
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After the Great War: Nativism and the Ku Klux Klan
Book article from: American Decades
AFTER THE GREAT WAR: NATIVISM AND THE KU KLUX KLAN A Revitalized Klan Immigration restriction was not the...decade also witnessed the revival of the long-dormant Ku Klux Klan, founded during Reconstruction to intimidate African...
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South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials: 1871-72
Book article from: Great American Trials
South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials: 1871-72...rights. The Ku Klux Klan Act Initially, it...further actions by the Klan and little was done...April 20, 1871, the Ku Klux Klan Act. Because...to its cause, the Ku Klux Klan Act allowed...
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Race Relations: The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
Book article from: American Decades
RACE RELATIONS: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE KU KLUX KLAN Advances in the Battle against Racism During the Jazz...a painted sign to indicate which race it served. The Ku Klux Klan The most tangible symbol of white racism in the 1920s...
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