KU KLUX KLAN - Southern Poverty Law Center With its long history of violence, the Klan is the most infamous — and oldest — of American hate groups When the Klan was formed in 1865, it was a single, unitary organization Today, there are dozens of competing Klan groups
Klan Collections: SC2293: Ku Klux Klan records, 1921-1961 . . . collection contains Klan membership and organizational records of the Whitewater Klan #60 located in Richmond, Indiana Materials include official documents and commuiques, correspondence, minutes, financial records, publications, memb rship and dues lists, and printed materials
KU KLUX KLAN, INDIANA LEDGER, 1924 The collection is a 929 page membership ledger of Klan members in Indianapolis, Acton, Wanamaker, Crawfordsville and other Indiana locations whose last names begins with the letter S–Z from the 1924
COLORADO UNDER THE KLAN - History of Colorado After its establishment in Colorado in 1922, the Ku Klux Klan began-under the leadership of Grand Dragon John Galen Locke-to carry out a program of economic and political control in various towns over the state
The Revised Ku Klux Klan In East Tennessee - MTSU The Ku Klux Klan, born at Pulaski, Giles County, Tennessee, in 1865, became a widespread southern organization and one of the best-known organizations in the history of the United States
THE KU KLUX KLAN AND RACIAL TENSIONS BEFORE WWII The Klan targeted not just Blacks, but also Jews, Catholics, and foreigners They found a sympathetic audience as the United States shifted from a rural agricultural society to an urban industrial society
Truth and Reconciliation: The Ku Klux Klan Hearings of 1871 . . . Klan was a military force serving the interests of all those who desired the restoration of white supremacy ”127 Shrouded in secrecy and disguise, however, the Klan and other white supremacist fac-tions operated with impunity; some members even maintained offi-cial state positions by day, cloaking themselves as members of these