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.

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。 因三个字头都是K，故称三K党。 原称是白人种族集会，又称白色联盟、无形帝国。 [1] 据美国 南方贫困法律中心 调查显示：2015年，美国大概有72个分支，共计2000到3000名三K党成员。 Nordic Order Knights和Rebel Brigade Knights等组织也信奉三K党。 [2] 三K党于1866年由 南北战争 …

In 2018, The Washington Post reported that, by 1930, the KKK, while its "membership remained semi-secret, claimed 11 governors, 16 senators and as many as 75 congressmen – roughly split between Republicans and Democrats." The actual names were never released.

2009年10月29日 · In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson delivered a speech publicly condemning the Klan and announcing the arrest of four Klansmen in connection with the murder of a white female civil rights worker in...

Most iterations of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) continued to decline in 2023, coupled with efforts by certain factions to rebrand and reinvent themselves. Out of the 11 active groups in the previous year, only eight have sustained their operations.

2011年3月1日 · At the forefront of the racial terrorism of the 1950s and 1960s was the Ku Klux Klan. Klansmen have been identified as the killers of 14 of the individuals honored on the Memorial. Their stories are told below. But that number is surely an incomplete accounting. Many killings attributed to unknown night riders were likely the work of the Klan.

2016年4月1日 · As a secret vigilante group, the Klan targeted black freedmen and their allies; it sought to restore white supremacy by threats and violence, including beatings, lynchings, and murder. Blacks lived in fear of groups like the Klan who exerted reign of terror across the South where their crimes were rarely prosecuted.

2017年10月8日 · Klansmen attacked, whipped, and murdered black men and women whenever they found their activities offensive, no matter how innocent or trifling these putative transgressions were. Freed people who exhibited too much independence, established schools, or assumed positions of leadership were singled out for harsh treatment.

Some Klansmen resorted to the terrorism of earlier days, but the vast majority were nonviolent. The modern-day KKK emerged in 1946, two years after the second Klan had disbanded as a result of its legal, financial, and political crises.

2021年5月28日 · Members of every social stratum belonged to the Klan, though the more respectable elite usually shied away from acts of violence. Local groups of the Klan or bands posing as Klansmen sometimes used terrorist acts such as stealing horses or burning crops merely to gain economic advantage, but most of their victims were Republicans.