Historic marker installed to honor Indianapolis teen who was lynched in 1922
When 19-year-old George Tompkins was found strangled and dead tied to a tree with his hands bound behind his back on March 16 ...
Did AI really defend the KKK at the end of my column? Let’s discuss
Soon, the headlines started: It only took a day for L.A. Times’ new AI tool to sympathize with the KKK. L.A. Times pulls new ...
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KU KLUX KLAN: Decline
It was about ten years ago that an organization was founded in the name of the old secret society of reconstruction days, the Ku Klux Klan. It spread through the South and Southwest, burst across ...
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100 years ago, Anaheim recalled its KKK city council. Why don’t we remember?
The rolls revealed that nine out of 10 members of the Anaheim police department belonged to the Klan, along with the four councilmembers. O.C. Dist. Atty. Alexander P. Nelson openly mocked the ...
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White Southern Responses to Black Emancipation
Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, S.C. 1874. Library of Congress Historians ... to white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. Drew Gilpin Faust ...
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Grant, Reconstruction and the KKK
The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist ...
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Organisation and methods of the Ku Klux Klan
During the 1920s, all non-Protestants, new immigrants and black Americans became targets for the Klan. They used a variety of methods to intimidate those they considered inferior. Groups of ...
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Who were the KKK and what did they do?
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 ...