Ku Klux Klan
White terrorist group
The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist terrorist organization founded in the American South after the Civil War.
Members wore white robes and hoods to conceal their identities while intimidating, assaulting, and murdering Black Americans and their allies.
The Klan has risen and fallen in several waves, targeting not only Black people but also Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.
Often shortened to the Klan or KKK.
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- vigilantismExtralegal enforcement by civilians
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
- night ridingVigilante terror after sundown
flogging · tarring and feathering · arson · bombing · murder · threats · harassment · mob violence
Doctrine of racial superiority
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
- segregationistAdvocate for racial division
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
- anti-SemitismHostility toward Jewish people
anti-Catholic · Anglo-Saxon · racial purity · eugenics · Americanism · anti-immigration · xenophobia · ethnocentrism
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- post-Civil WarAfter the rebellion ended
- night ridersViolent nocturnal vigilante groups
- 1866Mid-nineteenth century year
Confederate veterans · Freedmen's Bureau · carpetbaggers · scalawags · sharecropping · Stone Mountain · anti-Catholic · civil rights era
Pale flowing garments
- fiery crossLit wooden summons
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
- KlansmanHate group member
- secret ritualsConcealed ceremonial practices
initiation · masks · torches · rallies · parades · secrecy · anonymity
lynching
Extrajudicial killing by mob
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- vigilantismExtralegal enforcement by civilians
- intimidationDeliberate fear-inducing pressure
night riding · flogging · tarring and feathering · arson · bombing · murder · threats · harassment · mob violence · extrajudicial
white supremacy
Doctrine of racial superiority
- racial hierarchyRanking groups by ancestry
- segregationistAdvocate for racial division
- nativismPreference for native-born citizens
anti-Semitism · anti-Catholic · Anglo-Saxon · racial purity · eugenics · Americanism · anti-immigration · xenophobia · ethnocentrism · bigotry
Reconstruction
Post-1865 national reunification period
- Jim CrowRacial separation laws
- post-Civil WarAfter the rebellion ended
- night ridersViolent nocturnal vigilante groups
1866 · Confederate veterans · Freedmen's Bureau · carpetbaggers · scalawags · sharecropping · Stone Mountain · anti-Catholic · civil rights era · church bombings
white robes
Pale flowing garments
- fiery crossLit wooden summons
- regaliaCeremonial emblems of authority
- KlansmanHate group member
secret rituals · initiation · masks · torches · rallies · parades · secrecy · anonymity
- American OrganizationsNAACP, American Legion, VFW, American Red Cross, ACLU
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- 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
Ku Klux KlanNAACP
Civil rights advocacy organization
civil rights movement · Anti-Defamation League · Black Lives Matter · abolitionists · Freedom Riders
Ku Klux KlanMartin Luther King Jr.
Rosa Parks · Harriet Tubman · Frederick Douglass · John Lewis · Medgar Evers
Ku Klux Klannonviolent resistance
Protest through peaceful means
peaceful protest · civil disobedience · Quakers · sit-ins · Freedom Summer