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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 ...
On March 21 the Klans attorney, Morgan Telser, filed a corporate registration with the Georgia Secretary of State for the "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc" and paid up the dues for the period 1943–6. [7] On May 9, 1946 Green held the first large scale initiation ceremony on Stone Mountain.
The march was scheduled to begin at 11 a.m., but due to the size of the crowd, the start was delayed by over three hours, [2] commencing at about 2:20 p.m. [35] The protestors met at a shopping center on the outskirts of Cumming and began the roughly 1.25-mile (2.01 km) march, beginning at an offramp of Georgia 400 at Georgia State Route 20 ...
The U.S. Klans, officially, the U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. was the dominant Ku Klux Klan in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The death of its leader in 1960, along with increased factionalism, splits and competition from other groups led to its decline by the mid-to-late 1960s.
Pages in category "Ku Klux Klan in Georgia (U.S. state)" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
According to the report, the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United States consists of 42 active Klan groups in 33 states, a slight increase from early 2016's data.
Joining KKK is Grounds for Dismissal. Carol Berman. Updated July 14, 2016 at 8:58 PM. In the category of "Funny Business," we've got one that's not "ha-ha" funny. It's "weird" funny. We'd like to ...
James R. Venable (January 15, 1901 – January 18, 1993) was a white supremacist Georgia lawyer and Mayor of Stone Mountain, Georgia from 1946 to 1949. He established the Klan national faction National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963, which he led for 25 years.