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Ku Klux Klan
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Founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tenn., by former Confederate Army officers, the was one of the most powerful groups to emerge in the Reconstruction era in an effort to prevent newly enfranchised black Southerners from putting Republicans in power in the Southern states. Led by former Confederate gener ....
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....he Clansman (1905) and D. W. Griffith's powerful movie The Birth of a Nation (1915). This led to the revival of , which spread throughout the nation preaching anti-Catholic, antiblack, anti-Jewish, anti-immigrant, antisocialist, and anti-labor-union themes under the slogan "100 Percent Americanism." Often taking the law into their own hands, mobs of white-robed, white-hooded Klansmen punished "immorality" and terrorized "un-American" elements. At its height in the early 1920s, the Klan had betwe.... |
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