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The Ku Klux Klan ( / ˌkuːklʌksˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/ ), [e] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
- U.S. Civil War Defeat and The Origins of The Klan
- 20th Century: The Birth of A Nation
- KKK Heads North
- A Canadian Klan Headquarters
- A Move Towards Nazism
- 1960s - '80s: Civil Rights, Multiculturalism and A Klan Resurgence
- White Supremacy Moves Into Cyberspace
The original Ku Klux Klan was established in 1865, in the wake of the southern defeat in the Civil War when Black Americans began to gain their freedom. "The Klan itself was an attempt to impose order and to ensure that Black citizens, who were recently freed from slavery, kept their place, did not threaten the white society," said Bartley. It was ...
In the 20th century, the advent of motion pictures helped to propel the popularity of the Klan in both the U.S. and Canada, specifically with the film The Birth of a Nation. Directed by D. W. Griffith, The Birth of a Nationchronicled the chaotic period following the Civil War and glorified the role of the Klan in establishing social order, Bartley ...
By the early 1920s, there were tens of thousands of new Klan lodges, or klaverns, in the U.S., and recruiters started to cross the border into the Maritimes, the lower mainland of British Columbia and southern Ontario. "There was no organization to the recruiting at that time," said Bartley, noting that the popularity of The Birth of a Nationhad se...
In 1925, the national headquarters of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan was established in Toronto. Despite being a hate group, they sold themselves as a social organization, with a formal hierarchical and fraternal structure, and held meetings and rallies, and socialized in klaverns. In just a year, the group became the largest and the fastest growing soc...
In the 1930s, some Klan members and leaders had moved towards fascism and Nazism, and some of the early members popped up again in fascist and Nazi-like organizations in Canada. By the end of the decade, however, the Klan was effectively dead as an organization in this country, according to Bartley. During the Second World War, fascism and Nazism b...
After a couple of decades of dormancy, the Klan made yet another resurgence in the 1960s and '70s, spurred on by the Black civil rights movement in the U.S. and by the official adoption of multiculturalism in Canada, Bartley said. David Duke, who led this resurgence in the U.S. as the Klan's grand wizard, was also amassing a number of followers in ...
By the early 2000s, the remnants of the Klan began to move online, with the creation and rise of a number of successor groups with similar kinds of white supremacist ideologies, Bartley said. In June 2019, the Liberal government added two international neo-Nazi groups— Blood & Honor and Combat 18 — to Canada's list of outlawed terrorist organizatio...
Jun 29, 2024 · Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 29, 2009 · Learn about the origins, members and activities of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization that terrorized Black and white Republicans during Reconstruction and later targeted immigrants, Catholics and Jews. Explore the Klan's role in American politics, culture and society from 1865 to the present.
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Learn about the origins, ideology and actions of the Ku Klux Klan, the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups. Find out how the Klan has evolved over time, from its violent campaigns of terror against Black Americans to its online presence and rebranding efforts.
Feb 7, 2006 · The Ku Klux Klan is an outlawed, racist, ultra-conservative, fraternal organization dedicated to the supremacy of an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant society. Although never successful across Canada, the Klan was briefly popular in Saskatchewan in the 1920s.
Learn about the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist group that emerged during Reconstruction to undermine black political and economic empowerment in the South. Find out how Congress tried to stop the Klan with federal laws and how the Klan influenced the political and cultural landscape of the postwar era.
