The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [e] commonly shortened to KKK or Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was …

Oct 29, 2009 · Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s …

Apr 15, 2025 · Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, …

Apr 16, 2025 · The Ku Klux Klan was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The second iteration of the group began in 1915 and has continued to the present. …

Though considered progressive in its technique and style, the film had a decidedly backwards plot that glorified a short-lived, post-Civil War white supremacist group called the Ku Klux Klan. The...

Jan 25, 2017 · “From 1866 through 1871, men calling themselves ‘Ku-Klux’ killed hundreds of black Southerners and their white supporters, sexually molested hundreds of black women …

In 1865, at the conclusion of the Civil War, six Confederate veterans gathered in Pulaski, Tennessee, to create the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante group mobilizing a campaign of violence …

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American White supremacist hate group. [1] A group of Confederate veterans created the original KKK in Pulaski, Tennessee [ 2 ] on December 24, …

Jun 8, 2018 · Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name given not so much to a specific organization as to a tradition of southern vigilantism that dates back to the time of African American slavery in the …

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), Either of two racist terrorist organizations in the U.S. The first was organized by veterans of the Confederate army, first as a social club and then as a secret means of …