They’d read about Alabama’s Hugo Black, an ambitious young politician so eager to make his mark that he joined the local klavern of the Ku Klux Klan, and came to regret it.

A click of the dot shows the community where a klavern was located — like Roanoke’s Robert E. Lee Klan founded in 1927 as klavern number 4 — but the sites should not be viewed just as ...

The digital dots on the map document pockmarks of racism that spread to every state between the two world wars. VCU's “Mapping the Second Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1940” pinpoints where ...

In August 1924, Kolumbia Klavern No. 1 flew an illuminated cross over the Clark County Fairgrounds at Bagley Downs. This photo, taken at an unknown location in 1922, shows two Klu Klux Klansmen ...

For example, a single named Klavern in a county reduced the average number of Catholics by 6.2 percent, or equivalent to 1 in 16 Catholics. The effect on the Jewish population is even larger.

But the number of named Klavern’s per capita explains a whopping 68 % of the variation of African-American residents in our state in 2010. The overall population effects were even larger.

Indiana's KKK history affects today's population like an arctic climate or terrible schools, columnist Michael Hicks writes.

For example, a single named Klavern in a county reduced the average number of Catholics by 6.2%, or equivalent to 1 in 16 Catholics. The effect on the Jewish population is even larger.

For example, a single named Klavern in a county reduced the average number of Catholics by 6.2%, or equivalent to 1 in 16 Catholics. The effect on the Jewish population is even larger.