Petersen, William. Against the Stream: Reflections of an Unconventional Demographer. Transaction Publishers. p.89. ISBN 978-1412816663 . Retrieved May 8, 2016. According to The Cyclopædia of Fraternities (1907), "Beginning in April, 1867, there was a gradual transformation.... The members had conjured up a veritable Frankenstein. They had played with an engine of power and mystery, though organized on entirely innocent lines, and found themselves overcome by a belief that something must lie behind it all—that there was, after all, a serious purpose, a work for the Klan to do." [90] 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] Craig, Douglas B. (1992). After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ch. 2–3. ISBN 978-0807820582.

Wormser, Richard. "The Enforcement Acts (1870–71)". Jim Crow Stories. PBS. Archived from the original on March 4, 2012 . Retrieved May 12, 2012. Times, William K. Stevens Special to The New York (May 22, 1973). "5 Ex‐Klansmen Convicted in School Bus Bomb Plot". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331 . Retrieved July 6, 2023. Axtman, Kris (June 23, 2005). "Mississippi verdict greeted by a generation gap". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. A 1905 Silent Movie Revolutionizes American Film – and Radicalizes American Nationalists". Southern Hollows podcast. Archived from the original on May 27, 2018 . Retrieved June 3, 2018. The second Klan expanded with new chapters in cities in the Midwest and West, and reached both Republicans and Democrats, as well as men without a party affiliation. The goal of Prohibition in particular helped the Klan and some Republicans to make common cause in the North. [204]Ku Klux Klan in Chile Charged with Anti-Jewish Terroristic Activities". Jewish Telegraph Agency. June 10, 1958. Radio President Balmeceda reported today that four members of the Ku Klux Klan in Chile accused of anti-Semitic activities, appeared before an Appeals Court judge in Santiago. The four are charged with attempting to bomb a synagogue in Santiago and with sending threatening letters to Jews here demanding that they send funds to a certain Horace Sherman, Ku Klux Klan, Post Office Box 5062, Waco Texas.

Kelly J. Baker argues that religion was critical—the KKK based its hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans: "Members embraced Protestant Christianity and a crusade to save America from domestic as well as foreign threats." [249] Member were primarily Baptists, Methodists, and members of the Disciples of Christ, while men of "more elite or liberal" Protestant denominations such as Unitarians, Episcopalians, Congregationalists and Lutherans, were less likely to join. [250] Indiana a b Diane McWhorter, Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama, The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution, New York: Touchstone Book, 2002, p. 75. [ ISBNmissing]

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Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a North Carolina-based group headed by Will Quigg, [314] is currently thought to be the largest KKK chapter. [315] Adams, Cecil (June 18, 1993). "Why does the Ku Klux Klan burn crosses?". The Straight Dope. Archived from the original on June 19, 2010 . Retrieved December 24, 2009. Ku Klux Klan supports Alabama chief Justice Rory Moore's attempts to stop gay marriage". Independent. February 13, 2015. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021. Wesleyan University in Connecticut posted a flier advising students to avoid costumes with dreads, afros or anything that might "trivialise human suffering, oppression, and marginalisation"Aside from the Ku Klux Klan in Canada, there have been various attempts to organize KKK chapters outside the United States in places in Asia, Europe and Oceania, although most of them ultimately came to naught. [316] Africa The Klan attracted people but most of them did not remain in the organization for long. Membership in the Klan turned over rapidly as people found out that it was not the group which they had wanted. Millions joined and at its peak in the 1920s the organization claimed numbers that amounted to 15% of the nation's eligible population. The lessening of social tensions contributed to the Klan's decline. Klan costumes, also called " regalia", disappeared from use by the early 1870s, [169] after Grand Wizard Forrest called for their destruction as part of disbanding the Klan. The Klan was broken as an organization by 1872. [170] In 1915, William Joseph Simmons held a meeting to revive the Klan in Georgia; he attracted two aging former members, and all other members were new. [171] Second Klan: 1915–1944 Refounding in 1915

Michael, Robert, and Philip Rosen. Dictionary of antisemitism from the earliest times to the present. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1997, p. 267. [ ISBNmissing]Pratt Guterl, Matthew (2009). The Color of Race in America, 1900–1940. Harvard University Press. p.42. ISBN 978-0674038059. Klan leader calls for death for homosexuals". Tampa Bay Times. July 13, 1992. Archived from the original on July 28, 2022. 50 Klansmen, skinheads and supporters proclaimed gays and lesbians should receive the death penalty.