The KKK’s latest publicity campaign. Wonder if Trump will declare them a terrorist organization.
On June 7, 1920, a white Ku Klux Klan leader named William Simmons hired publicists to grow membership for the white supremacist organization. Confederate veterans founded the Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. From beneath white hoods, they terrorized formerly enslaved Black people and their political allies with threats, beatings, and murder. The KKK strived to undermine Reconstruction and restore racial subordination in the South. Faced with federal opposition, the Klan dissolved by the 1870s, but reemerged early in the next century.
Source: On Jun 07, 1920: Ku Klux Klan Mounts Publicity Campaign to Attract Members
By 1924, the Klan claimed 4 million members; they wore robes, lit crosses on fire, read Klan newspapers, and participated in political campaigns on the local and national levels. (and killed people…)
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Given the KKK’s flagrant ongoing terrorism, their ability to recruit openly makes a total joke of the so-called “war on terrorism.”
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