Ku Klux Klan

The USA history

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 The first Ku Klux Klan was an
organization that thrived in
the South during the
Reconstruction period
following the Civil War.

 The second Ku Klux Klan

was a nationwide
organization that flourished
after World War I.
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 The KKK has a record of
using terrorism, violence
, and lynching
 to murder and oppress
African Americans, Jews
and other minorities and
to intimidate and oppose
Roman Catholics and
labor unions.
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 strange disguises,
 silent parades,
 midnight rides,
 mysterious language and
commands,
 muffled horses' feet
 covered the horses with white robes
 dressed in flowing white sheets
 faces covered with white masks
 skulls at their saddle horns
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 Congress in 1870
and 1871 passed
legislation to
combat the Klan
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 The second Ku Klux Klan
was founded in 1915 by
William J. Simmons, an
ex-minister and promoter
of fraternal orders; its first
meeting was held on
Stone Mt., Ga.
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 At its peak in the mid-1920s its

membership was estimated at 4
million to 5 million. Although the
actual figures were probably much
smaller, the Klan nevertheless
declined with amazing rapidity to
an estimated 30,000 by 1930.
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 With the depression of the 1930s, dues-

paying membership of the Klan shrank to
almost nothing.
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