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American factory superintendent and lynching victim (1884–1915)
Candace Owens drew sustained criticism from Jewish organizations and commentators for a string of remarks that critics say promote antisemitic tropes: she has been accused of Holocaust minimization an...
D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation and Thomas Dixon Jr.’s novel The Clansman supplied the ideological script, imagery, and a popular soundtrack for William J. Simmons’s 1915 rebirth of the Ku Klux ...
Historians treat the Ku Klux Klan as a multi‑phase phenomenon: an 1865–70 Reconstruction terrorist movement rooted in Southern opposition to black political rights, a mass, nationwide “second Klan” in...
Candace Owens has made a string of public statements and promoted materials that critics say recycle classic antisemitic tropes — from urging audiences to read a debunked 19th‑century antisemitic trac...
Rapid immigration to U.S. cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries intensified nativist and anti‑urban sentiments that reframed older religious anti‑Jewish tropes as modern racial and conspira...