The KKK of the 1920s had a nationwide membership in the millions and reflected a cross-section of the native born white Protestant population. The third and current Klan formed in the mid 20th century, was largely a reaction to the growing civil rights movement. It used murder and bombings to achieve its aims.

三K党 （英語： Ku Klux Klan， / ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn, ˈkjuː -/，簡稱 KKK）是指 美国 历史上三个不同时期奉行 白人至上主义 运动和 基督教恐怖主义 的民间团体，也是美国 种族主义 的代表性组织。 三K党最早于1865年由 美国内战 中被击败的 南方邦联 军队的退伍老兵组成。 在其发展初期，三K党的目标是在美国南部恢复 民主党 的势力，并反对由联邦军队在南方 强制实行的改善黑人待遇政策。 1871年， 共和党 的 尤里西斯·格兰特 总统签发针对三K党的执行法案，强行取缔了这 …

The Klan arose a third time during the 1960s to oppose the Civil Rights Movement and attempt to preserve segregation as the Chief Justice Earl Warren-led U.S. Supreme Court substantiated civil rights in multiple rulings. Bombings, murders and other …

三K党（Ku Klux Klan，缩写为K.K.K.），是美国历史上一个奉行白人至上主义的团体，也是美国种族主义的代表性组织。 Ku-Klux二字来源于希腊文KuKloo，意为集会；Klan是种族。

2009年10月29日 · Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies...

2023年8月10日 · A third Klan movement emerged in 1946, after World War II, based on fear of Communism and the civil rights movement. Samuel Green, an Atlanta physician, headed the revival. However, the group was a shadow of its earlier incarnations. Membership peaked in the 1960s at about 17,000. The new Klan offered hard-core opposition to the civil rights ...

2025年1月8日 · The Third Klan emerged during the Civil Rights Movement, targeting African Americans and activists advocating for racial equality. Unlike the centralized structure of the Second Klan, the Third Klan consisted of fragmented, loosely connected groups.

There have been three Ku Klux Klan KKK movements in North Carolina and the nation, similar in character but distinct organizationally and chronologically. The first Klan flourished in the Reconstruction era, its name derived from the Greek word kuklos for circle or band; it was almost exclusively southern in its membership and mission to ...

2017年1月25日 · By 1930, the Klan seemed to be pretty much done. A third wave arose in the South during the Civil Rights era of the 1950s and ’60s. New members, along with some 1920s Kluxers, fought school desegregation and the movement to give blacks equal rights. Like the original Klan, this third incarnation was highly violent.

The third era of the Ku Klux Klan occurred during the Civil Rights Movement. The Klan attempted to intimidate African-Americans to keep them from gaining rights. They also targeted whites who helped blacks. The strength of the Klan used violence which slowed down the process of …