Ku Klux Klan

Details

Instance of

political organization, hate group, terrorist organization, armed organization, criminal organization, patriotic society

Inception

1865

Has parts

Grand Dragon, Grand Wizard

Followed by

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Founded by

Nathan Bedford Forrest

Field of work

right-wing terrorism

archives at

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

depicted by

The Birth of a Nation

described by source

Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Extremist Files, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)

different from

capirote

location of formation

Pulaski

political ideology

white nationalism, Christian terrorism, nativism, anti-Catholicism, anti-communism, neo-fascism, white supremacy

significant event

Reconstruction Era

significant place

Southern United States

topic's main category

Category:Ku Klux Klan

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files