KKK
White supremacist group
The KKK, or Ku Klux Klan, is a white supremacist organization in the United States, notorious for terrorism against Black Americans and other minorities.
Founded after the Civil War, the Klan has undergone several revivals, each marked by cross burnings, lynchings, and intimidation.
Members wear white robes and hoods.
The name appears in discussions of American racism and domestic terrorism: The KKK marched through town.
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
- ConfederacySecessionist Southern government
night riders · lynching · poll tax · literacy test · sharecropping · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Freedom Summer
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- night ridingVigilante terror after sundown
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- vigilantismExtralegal enforcement by civilians
bombing · arson · church burning · voter suppression · flogging · tarring and feathering · boycotts
Doctrine of racial superiority
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
- anti-immigrationOpposed to foreign settlement
- antisemitismBigotry toward Jewish people
Pale flowing garments
- hoodsHead or engine coverings
- fiery crossLit wooden summons
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
Reconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- Freedmen's BureauPost-Civil War relief agency
- Plessy v. FergusonRuling allowing racial separation
Confederacy · night riders · lynching · poll tax · literacy test · sharecropping · carpetbaggers · scalawags · Freedom Summer · Mississippi Burning
lynching
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- night ridingVigilante terror after sundown
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
vigilantism · bombing · arson · church burning · voter suppression · flogging · tarring and feathering · boycotts
white supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
- racial purityIdeology of ethnic exclusivity
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
- anti-immigrationOpposed to foreign settlement
antisemitism · xenophobia · ethnocentrism · segregation · racial hierarchy
white robes
Pale flowing garments
- hoodsHead or engine coverings
- fiery crossLit wooden summons
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
- racismracism, racial bias, white supremacy, racial discrimination, bigotry
- secret societiesFreemasons, Illuminati, secret society, secret societies, Masons
- far rightfascism, neo-Nazism, neofascism, white supremacy, Nazism
- hate crimeshate crime, racial attack, antisemitic attack, hate groups, racial violence
- American MovementsFreedom Riders, Sons of Liberty, Underground Railroad, Wobblies, Beat Generation
- Jim CrowJim Crow laws, separate but equal, segregation laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, whites only
KKKNAACP
Civil rights advocacy organization
civil rights movement · Black Lives Matter · abolitionists · Freedom Riders · Anti-Defamation League
KKKACLU
Advocacy group for constitutional protections
Anti-Defamation League · human rights organizations · progressive movement · inclusivity · tolerance
Rosa Parks · John Lewis · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · Medgar Evers