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Ku Klux Klan
Title: Ku Klux Klan
Category: History
Details: Words: 1173 | Pages: 5.0 (approximately 235 words/page)
Ku Klux Klan
KU KLUX KLAN"("k[symbol];❝; klŭks klăn")", designation mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organization that thrived in the South during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. The second was a nationwide organization that flourished after World War I. Subsequent groups calling themselves the …showed first 75 words of 1173 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1173 total…Jacksonville and St. Augustine, Fla., Birmingham and Montgomery, Ala., and Meridian, Miss. In spite of its efforts, the new Klan was not strong, and by the end of the decade its power and membership had declined to practically nothing. Although a resurgence of support for the Klan was manifest in the surprising popularity in the early 1990s of David Duke of Louisiana, actual membership in Klan organizations is estimated to be in the low thousands.
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