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Article: Ku Klux Klan
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ... ... history, however, the Ku Klux Klan has been a secret, terrorist ... The History of the Ku Klux Klan . New York: Doubleday ... 1968. Immigrants in American Life . Boston: Houghton Mifflin ... White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern ...

Article: U.S.-RIGHTS: WOMEN'S KU KLUX KLAN FLOUNDERS IN ...
Inter Press Service English News Wire;  June 4, 2004 ;     512 words ... ... The first wave of white supremacist activity of the Ku Klux Klan came after Reconstruction, rallying the defeated sons of ... large numbers of recently enfranchised women eager to rid American life of "impurities" like blacks, Catholics and Jews. In Indiana ...

Ku Klux Klan.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Ku Klux Klan , designation mainly given to two distinct ... have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organization that thrived in the ... Subsequent groups calling themselves the Ku Klux Klan sprang up in much of the South after ...

Article: Rep. Serrano Introduces Resolution Condemning Recent Actions of ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 3, 2007 ;     479 words ... ... 693) "condemning the recent actions of the Ku Klux Klan." The resolution was introduced on Sept. 27 ... 693Condemning the recent actions of the Ku Klux Klan. Whereas the Ku Klux Klan has long preached hate against people of an ethnicity ...

Article: Ku Klux Klan Act
West's Encyclopedia of American Law;      700+ words ...KU KLUX KLAN ACT The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 (ch. 22, 17 Stat. 13 [codified as amended at ... protect African Americans from violence perpetrated by the ku klux klan (KKK), a white supremacist group. In March 1871, President ...

Article: South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials: 1871-72
Great American Trials;      700+ words ...South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials: 1871-72 Defendants: Robert ... arrest and later trials of several Ku Klux Klan members in the South, particularly ... Confederate veterans founded the original Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a social club on December ...

Article: After the Great War: Nativism and the Ku Klux Klan
American Decades;      700+ words ... ... AFTER THE GREAT WAR: NATIVISM AND THE KU KLUX KLAN A Revitalized Klan Immigration restriction ... the revival of the long-dormant Ku Klux Klan, founded during Reconstruction to intimidate ... Unlike the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan, which targeted its violence primarily ...