In the 1960’s the Ku Klux Klan reemerged as a political force. Faced with the increasing number of rights for Black and Hispanic Americans an increasing number of people looked to the Klan to ‘defend’ their superior position. The Klan worked as it had done in the past, by utilising fear and violence to attempt to ensure continued white supremacy.

2021年11月2日 · These racist attacks, on behalf of the KKK, greatly impacted America during the 1960s and continued to leave a legacy through to today. The presence and activity of the KKK in the 1960s, significantly contributed to radical, racial influenced political events and control, through the immense fear, and violence towards black people in America.

The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [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.

2014年1月17日 · The violence and terror tactics of the Klan aside, one of the things that jumped out at Cunningham during his research was the Klan's organization: what it was able to do on a daily basis, and...

2015年1月12日 · “Klansville U.S.A.,” a documentary about the third wave of Ku Klux Klan activity, which came in the 1960s in response to the civil-rights movement, debuts on PBS on Tuesday night.

2011年3月1日 · The Klan itself has had three periods of significant strength in American history — in the late 19th century, in the 1920s, and during the 1950s and early 1960s when the civil rights movement was at its height. The Klan had resurgence again in the 1970s, but did not reach its past level of influence.

2025年3月28日 · "In September 1963, Dr. Robert Hayling, “father” of the civil rights movement in St. Augustine, Fla., along with some activists, were caught spying on a Ku Klux Klan rally. The men were severely beaten. Hayling recalls, “They had beat us across the head and body and they had us piled on top of each other.”" more...

2013年2月26日 · At its peak, the Klan had more than 10,000 members in North Carolina. "Almost every night of the year in the mid-1960s you'd see a Klan rally somewhere in North Carolina," Cunningham says. "It...

Klan organizations have consistently looked to the past and commem-orated the achievements accomplished by their forerunners. Usually Klansmen trace their history to the time when a Confederate Army Gen-eral, Nathan Bedford Forrest, headed an organization called the Ku Klux Klan in nine Southern states.7 The idea for the name, the importance of

This publication presents the history of the Ku Klux Klan and efforts to curb Klan activities and racist violence.