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Recent KKK membership campaigns have stimulated people's anxieties about illegal immigration, urban crime, civil unions, and same-sex marriage. [302] In 2006, J. Keith Akins argued that "Klan literature and propaganda is rabidly homophobic and encourages violence against gays and lesbians....Since the late 1970s, the Klan has increasingly focused its ire on this previously ignored population." [303] The Klan has produced Islamophobic propaganda and distributed anti-Islamic flyers. [304] a b "Sixth Lynching". The Crisis. Vol.47, no.10. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. October 1940. pp.323–324. Archived from the original on February 15, 2017 . Retrieved February 3, 2017.
About the Ku Klux Klan". Anti-Defamation League. Archived from the original on December 26, 2009 . Retrieved January 2, 2010. Superheroes and Villains: Embrace your inner superhero or channel your dark side as a famous villain from The second Klan was a formal fraternal organization, with a national and state structure. During the resurgence of the second Klan in the 1920s, its publicity was handled by the Southern Publicity Association. Within the first six months of the Association's national recruitment campaign, Klan membership had increased by 85,000. [106] At its peak in the mid-1920s, the organization's membership ranged from three to eight million members. [107]
Pratt Guterl, Matthew (2009). The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940. Harvard University Press. p.42. ISBN 978-0674038059. Cummings, Stephen D. (2008). Red States, Blue States, and the Coming Sharecropper Society. Algora. p.119. ISBN 978-0875866277. Archived from the original on April 16, 2016 . Retrieved February 27, 2016. The Various Shady Lives of the Ku Klux Klan". Time. April 9, 1965. Archived from the original on August 6, 2009 . Retrieved August 1, 2009. An itinerant Methodist preacher named William Joseph Simmons started up the Klan again in Atlanta in 1915. Simmons, an ascetic-looking man, was a fetishist on fraternal organizations. He was already a "colonel" in the Woodmen of the World, but he decided to build an organization all his own. He was an effective speaker, with an affinity for alliteration; he had preached on "Women, Weddings and Wives", "Red Heads, Dead Heads and No Heads", and the "Kinship of Kourtship and Kissing". On Thanksgiving Eve 1915, Simmons took 15 friends to the top of Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, built an altar on which he placed an American flag, a Bible and an unsheathed sword, set fire to a crude wooden cross, muttered a few incantations about a "practical fraternity among men", and declared himself Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Axtman, Kris (June 23, 2005). "Mississippi verdict greeted by a generation gap". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. See also: Nathan Bedford Forrest §Ku Klux Klan membership Depiction of Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina in 1870, based on a photograph taken under the supervision of a federal officer who seized Klan costumes Blow, Charles M. (January 7, 2016). "Gun Control and White Terror". The New York Times. Retrieved March 3, 2022. 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. The head of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, appeared more concerned about Communist links to civil rights activists than about controlling Klan excesses against citizens. In 1964, the FBI's COINTELPRO program began attempts to infiltrate and disrupt civil rights groups. [112]The second Klan embraced the burning Latin cross as a dramatic display of symbolism, with a tone of intimidation. [200] No crosses had been used as a symbol by the first Klan, but it became a symbol of the Klan's quasi-Christian message. Its lighting during meetings was often accompanied by prayer, the singing of hymns, and other overtly religious symbolism. [201] In his novel The Clansman, Thomas Dixon Jr. borrows the idea that the first Klan had used fiery crosses from 'the call to arms' of the Scottish Clans, [202] and film director D.W. Griffith used this image in The Birth of a Nation; Simmons adopted the symbol wholesale from the movie, and the symbol and action have been associated with the Klan ever since. [203] Women Allen, Lee N. (1963). "The McAdoo Campaign for the Presidential Nomination in 1924". Journal of Southern History. 29 (2): 211–228. doi: 10.2307/2205041. JSTOR 2205041. Polly Ross Hughes (October 27, 2005). "Prop. 2 supporters avoid anti-gay KKK rally". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 28, 2022.
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