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The Ku Klux Klan was created twice in distinct forms: an original group founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865–66 by a small band of Confederate veterans, and a separate national revival organized in ...
Scholars and contemporary reporting show that Klan leaders and sympathizers have repeatedly cited, misread, or republished biblical passages to legitimize white supremacy — including Leviticus 19:18, ...
Contemporary reporting and historical summaries agree the Ku Klux Klan began in the wake of the Civil War in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865 as a group formed by six Confederate veterans; that first organ...
The Ku Klux Klan’s use of cross burning in the United States has roots in a much older Scottish signaling custom but was invented as a Klan practice in the early 20th century after being popularized i...
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 ...
The Ku Klux Klan’s 1920s resurgence reached into New York City not as a peripheral curiosity but as a strategic and contested front: the city functioned as a publishing and media hub that amplified Kl...
The 1920s “second” Ku Klux Klan grew into a mass, national movement through a mix of professional publicity and fundraising, local political alliances, and cultural institutions rather than a single w...