Christian terrorism 2nd Klan: 3rd Klan: The current manifestation is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. It is estimated to have between 5,000 and 8,000 members as of 2012. The first Ku Klux Klan flourished in the Southern United States in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. M...
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either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that have employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded ... [11 related articles]
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The Ku Klux Klan also called the White League, the Invisible Empire, and the Knights of the White Camelia are an American secret society. They were founded in 1866 at Pulaski, Tennessee in the southern USA after the American Civil War originally organized purposes of amusement, it soon developed into an organisation to oppose reconstruction and to ...
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[
n] - a secret society of white Southerners to resist Black emancipation
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Klan noun a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people
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a secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings. · Official name,a secret organization inspired by the former, founded in 1915 an...
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