Your fact-checks will appear here
American writer
Christianity—especially a particular strain of white, Protestant identity—played a central role in how the Ku Klux Klan framed itself, recruited members, and justified its goals: the Klan explicitly p...
The Ku Klux Klan has consistently tied itself to a particular strain of Protestant Christianity, especially during its 1915–1930 resurgence when scholars say the Klan framed its mission as a “crusade”...
KKK leaders have drawn on both Old and New Testament texts but in sharply different ways: Old Testament narratives and symbols are repurposed to claim a racialized lineage for “white” Christians and t...