Across the country, people explained the Klan, “America First” and fascism in terms of each other. If they were trying to explain what Mussolini was up to, they would say, “It's basically ...

The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1866, through the efforts of a small band of Confederate veterans in Tennessee. Quickly expanding from a localized membership, the KKK has become perhaps the ...

In spite of hostility to the Klan from the Buffalo press, the Catholic Diocese, and leading rabbis and African-Americans, the Buffalo chapter’s first public ceremony took place in a vacant field ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.

It’s also located near Pulaski, where the very first Ku Klux Klan chapter was formed at the end of the Civil War by six ...

The program will focus primarily on the second Klu Klux Klan, which was formed after World War I and which differed from the first Klan formed after the Civil War.

The first Klan flourished in the South in the 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. Their iconic white costumes consisted of robes, masks, and conical hats, and were designed to be outlandish ...

The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group established by people who believed that white people were better and wanted to see black people remain as enslaved people. It began in the southern states at ...

The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1866, through the efforts of a small band of Confederate veterans in Tennessee. Quickly expanding from a localized membership, the KKK has become perhaps the ...