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Linda Gordon The 2nd Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s & American Political Tradit
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Imperial Wizard Dr. H.W. Evans leads a march
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the streets of Washington are filled with 25,000 KKK members during a march in August 1925
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During the 1910s and 1920s the Klan carried out lynchings, floggings and countless beatings, particularly on minority groups. Pictured, senior members of the organization address a crowd
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After being disbanded in 1870 following the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan was officially reformed in 1915 by founder William J. Simmons, and saw a huge rise in popularity in its early years. Pictured, an eerie sight as hundreds of members gather adorned wit
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More than a million women were members of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan
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A family in full KKK robes at a parade.
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Membership in the 2nd KKK was northern & western, too.
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For a time, the KKK was powerful in electoral politics.
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Many credit Birth of a Nation with successful recruitment in the KKK of the 1920s.
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Though mostly known for their bigotry towards African-Americans, Anti-Catholicism was one of the pillars of prejudice upon which the KKK was founded.
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Some claimed 40,000 Evangelical ministers were members of the KKK
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Kamelias (female KKK members) attend a funeral in Muncie, Indiana.
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the KKK felt entitled to act outside the law. In a room full of enforcers of the law, Powell and Gifford spoke freely without fear of prosecution.
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