Klan in a sentence

Chester L. Quarles, The Ku Klux Klan and Related American Racialist and Antisemitic Organizations: A History and Analysis, p. 219. The second Klan's constitution and preamble attributed debt to the original Klan's Prescripts.

Forrest called for the Klan to disband in 1869, arguing that the Klan was "being perverted from its original honorable and patriotic purposes, becoming injurious instead of subservient to the public peace".

Ingalls 1979; citation While the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had paid informants in the Klan, for instance in Birmingham in the early 1960s, its relations with local law enforcement agencies and the Klan were often ambiguous.

Many people not formally inducted into the Klan had used the Klan's costume for anonymity, to hide their identities when carrying out independent acts of violence.

Many southern states began to pass anti-Klan legislation. citation main In January 1871, Pennsylvania Republican Senator John Scott convened a Congressional committee which took testimony from 52 witnesses about Klan atrocities.

More established and experienced politicians who endorsed the Klan, or who pursued some of the interests of their Klan constituents, also accomplished little.

Since most of the Klan's members were veterans, they were used to such military hierarchy, but the Klan never operated under this centralized structure.

The Indiana Klan was perhaps the most powerful Ku Klux Klan in the nation.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People created public education campaigns in order to inform people about Klan activities and lobbied in Congress against Klan abuses.

The second Klan embraced the burning Latin cross as a dramatic display of symbolism, with a tone of intimidation. citation No crosses had been used as a symbol by the first Klan.

Although the impeachment and trial weakened him, his continuation as president helped pave the way for the emerging power of the Ku Klux Klan and the denial of rights to Blacks.

And make sure to wear those Klan hoods and Trump flags proudly, so that we can pick you off from the 4th story roofs of our townhouses.

In 2005, former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen was arrested on murder charges 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi.

In this 18-issue arc which took place in the pages of Jungle Action, Black Panther faced off with the Ku Klux Klan over an elongated period that made for one of the first arcs even close to this length in the history of comic books.

Scalise had apologized in 2014 after he was found to have addressed a white supremacist group in 2002 founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

The nation says it will be on exhibit at the Museum of Northern B.C. in Prince Rupert until a museum in Lax Klan, the village of Gitxaala, is built.

The reborn Klan expanded its range of hatred to the changing face of America: immigrants, Jews and Catholics.

The situation is another oddity for West, who showed up at the listening event wearing a black Ku Klux Klan hood as well as Nazi imagery being featured.

They don’t believe in equal rights or blind justice, any more than they did when their predecessors in the party were firing on Fort Sumter or starting the Ku Klux Klan.

While it may have been a terrible design choice and not a reference to the Ku Klux Klan, the letters KKK were prominent in red on the black boots.