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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 ...
Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 states as of June 2017, a slight increase from early 2016, according to a report from the ADL.
"The Black Experience in the First Decade of Reconstruction in Pope County, Arkansas", Arkansas Historical Quarterly 51 (Summer 1992): 105–119. Claunts, P. M. From Memory's Scrapbook: A History of the Early Days of Scott County, Arkansas. Waldron: The Scott County Library Heritage Committee, 1983. Goodner, Norman. A History of Scott County ...
Two years after Arkansas received statehood in 1836, ... the first Ku Klux Klan chapter was opened in Bentonville. [9] ... including Big Sugar Gravel, ...
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.
On October 13, 1827, St. Francis County, located in the east central part of Arkansas, was officially organized by the Arkansas Territorial Legislature in Little Rock. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate General and later the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, became interested in the area around Crowley's Ridge during the American Civil ...
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In the 1926 Oregon election, the Ku Klux Klan, ... 1964) the Governor of Arkansas, was a supporter of the Klan in his home state of Arkansas. [38] Bibb Graves