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Thomas Robb (born October 13, 1946) is an American white supremacist, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan and Christian Identity pastor. [1] [2] He is the National Director of the Knights Party, also known as the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, [3] taking control of the organization since the year 1989.
William Joseph Simmons [1] (1880–1945) was the Imperial Wizard (national leader) of the second Ku Klux Klan between 1915 and 1922. Hiram Wesley Evans (1881–1966), part of a group that ousted William Joseph Simmons from the position of Imperial Wizard in November 1922. Evans was Imperial Wizard from 1922 to 1939, during which time the Klan's ...
In 1974, Duke founded the Louisiana-based Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK), shortly after graduating from LSU. [ 20 ] [ 28 ] He became the KKKK's "grand wizard" in 1976. [ 3 ] Duke first received broad public attention during this time, as he endeavored to market himself in the mid-1970s as a new brand of Klansman: well-groomed, engaged, and ...
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Various historians have characterized the Klan as America's first ...
The report further explains, "The organized Ku Klux Klan movement continues to struggle due to several factors, including infighting, the perception among adherents that current Klan groups (or ...
Earlier during the protests, David Duke said on-camera, 'We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump ... That's why we voted for Donald Trump.'
While one source claims Warren G. Harding, a Republican, was a Ku Klux Klan member while President, that claim is based on a third-hand account of a second-hand recollection in 1985 of a deathbed statement made sometime in the late 1940s concerning an incident in the early 1920s. Independent investigations have turned up many contradictions and ...
The building on the Montgomery campus had featured the name of KKK member and former governor Bibb Graves since 1928. Ku Klux Klan leader’s name stripped from Alabama State University residence hall