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The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, with fifteen "charter members". [112] Its growth was based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic , Prohibitionist and anti-Semitic agenda, which reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly recent immigration.
Under Johnson's successor, President Ulysses S. Grant, Radical Republicans passed additional legislation to enforce civil rights, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. However, continuing resistance to Reconstruction by Southern whites and its high cost contributed to its losing support in the North during the Grant ...
Forrest was an early member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which was formed by six veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the spring of 1866 [153] [154] [155] and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond. Forrest became involved sometime in late 1866 or early 1867.
The May 27 edition of the Visalia Daily Times noted that Goshen residents “Bob Carson and George Rasmussen motored to Fresno Saturday evening to attend the Ku Klux Klan carnival.” The ...
In response to Radical Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) emerged in 1867 as a white-supremacist organization opposed to Black civil rights and Republican rule. President Ulysses Grant's vigorous enforcement of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870 shut down the Klan, and it disbanded. But from 1868 elections in many southern states were ...
"The Ku Klux Klan movement is small and fractured, but still poses a threat to society," ADL CEO Jonathan A. Greenblatt said of the study's findings. "These hardened racists and bigots are looking ...
Why a county where the Ku Klux Klan once operated should worry Trump today. ... In the years after the Civil War, when Union General William Tecumseh Sherman marched his troops to Georgia, Forsyth ...
[citation needed] He declared himself the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The imagery of the burning cross, which had not been used by the original Klan, had been introduced by Griffith in Birth of a Nation. The film had derived the image from the works of Thomas Dixon, Jr., upon which the film was based.