Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
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Name (Latin)
Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Other forms of name
K.K.K. (Ku Klux Klan (19th century))
KKK (Ku Klux Klan (19th century))
Ku-Kluks-Klan (19th century)
nnea Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
Ku-Klux Klan (1866-1869)
K.K.K. (1866-1869)
Ku-Kluks-Klan (1866-1869)
Associated country
United States
See Also From tracing corporate name
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)
Other Identifiers
VIAF:
131862206
Library of congress:
n 80076146
Sources of Information
- Britannica online, Dec. 13, 2006(Ku Klux Klan; either of two distinct secret terrorist organizations in the United States, one founded immediately after the Civil War and lasting until the 1870s, the other beginning in 1915 and continuing to the present; ordered disbanded in 1869; local branches remained active for a time; in 1882, the Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act (1871) unconstitutional, but by that time the Klan had practically disappeared)
- New Columbia ency., 1975p. 1505 (Ku Klux Klan; two distinct secret societies; first society org. at Pulaski, Tenn., in May 1866 and disbanded in 1869; second Ku Klux Klan founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons)
- LCN