U.S. Attorney Macon Weaver said the federal complaint, charged that the juror gave false information when asked about Ku Klux Klan membership during selection of jury.

At the opening of the trial, the jury panel was questioned as a group by Mr. Weaver about Ku Klux Klan connections.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

* 1924 – Samuel Bowers, American murder, co-founded White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ( d. 2006 )

Albert Pike has often been named as influential in the early Ku Klux Klan, being named in 1905 as " the chief judicial officer " of the Klan by a sympathetic historian of the early Klan, Walter Fleming.

He was cited as the leader of the Arkansas Ku Klux Klan.

The film was a commercial success, but was highly controversial owing to its portrayal of African American men ( played by white actors in blackface ) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women, and the portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan ( whose original founding is dramatized ) as a heroic force.

The movie is also credited as one of the events that inspired the formation of the " second era " Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia in the same year.

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The enemy may be the cosmopolitan intellectual, but the paranoid will outdo him in the apparatus of scholarship ... the Ku Klux Klan imitated Catholicism to the point of donning priestly vestments, developing an elaborate ritual and an equally elaborate hierarchy.

* Civil Rights Act of 1871, also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, prohibiting ethnic violence against blacks.

The film has been extremely controversial for its negative depiction of African Americans, white Unionists and Reconstruction, and its positive portrayal of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan.

* 1865 – The Ku Klux Klan is formed.

Grant used their provisions vigorously, suspending habeas corpus in South Carolina and sending troops there and into other states ; under his leadership over 5, 000 arrests were made and the Ku Klux Klan received a serious blow.

White insurgents had quickly arisen in the South after the war, organizing first as secret vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan.

Attempting to avenge the assault on his wife, Frank and the Ku Klux Klan raid the shanty town whereupon Frank is shot dead.

Unknown to Scarlett, Frank is secretly involved in the Ku Klux Klan.

It has also been argued that Mitchell downplayed the violent role of the Ku Klux Klan.

Bestselling author Pat Conroy, in his preface to the novel, describes Mitchell's portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan as having " the same romanticized role it had in The Birth of a Nation and appears to be a benign combination of the Elks Club and a men's equestrian society.

* 1963 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith.

* 1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

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In the 1990s, Swedish historian Mattias Gardell studied the white separatist Heathen community in the United States, noting that it had become one of the " most dynamic trends " within the " radical-racist milieu " of the U. S., surpassing more traditional white separatist groups like the Ku Klux Klan in " terms of numbers and influence ".

Since 1915, the Ku Klux Klan was growing in urban chapters across the Midwest, particularly since veterans had been returning from the war ; it made its first major appearance in Oklahoma later that year on August 12, 1921, less than three months after the riot.

The Red Shirts and White League, who conducted insurgency in Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana, operated openly and were better organized than the Ku Klux Klan had been.

Also, in his 1987 book The Fiery Cross, historian Wyn Craig Wade suggested that President Harding had ties with the Ku Klux Klan, perhaps having been inducted into the organization in a private White House ceremony.

In 1965, after breaking with the Nation of Islam and denouncing its separatist doctrine, Malcolm X told his followers that the Nation of Islam under Elijah Muhammad had made agreements with the American Nazi Party and the Ku Klux Klan that " were not in the interests of Negros.

Economics was dominant, and the sort of cultural issues that had dominated previous elections including Catholicism and the Ku Klux Klan ( KKK ) were dormant.

" Confessions of a Republican ", another Johnson ad, features a monologue from a man who tells us that he had previously voted for Eisenhower and Nixon, but now worries about the " men with strange ideas ", " weird groups " and " the head of the Ku Klux Klan " who were supporting Goldwater: he concludes that " either they're not Republicans, or I'm not ".

He served as the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret vigilante organization which launched a reign of terrorism against African-Americans, Northerners that had moved to the postwar South, Southerners who supported the Union, and Republicans during the Reconstruction era in the Southern United States.

When three civil rights workers Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi on June 21, 1964, he reportedly told President Lyndon Johnson that the incident was a hoax and there was no Ku Klux Klan in the state, surmising that the three had gone to Chicago :< ref >

In 1924, the county's three commissioners were indicted and recalled by voters " in response to ' gross irregularities ' in the award of contracts for construction of the Burnside and Ross Island bridges "; since all three had been supported by the Ku Klux Klan, their recall also helped reduce that organization's influence in the city.

Of particular concern was scene from the novel in which black men attack Scarlett O ' Hara and the Ku Klux Klan, which had a long history of practicing racial terrorism on black communities, is presented as the savior.

In the 1920s, Indiana had the strongest Ku Klux Klan organization in the country under Grand Dragons D. C. Stephenson and Walter F. Bossert, with control over the state legislature and an ally in Governor Ed Jackson.

He came in third ; although he and another candidate had privately opposed the powerful Ku Klux Klan, a third candidate had openly supported it.

During the 1920s, Jeffersonville was a popular gathering place for the Ku Klux Klan, as Louisville and New Albany had strong anti-KKK laws and Jeffersonville didn't.

Merican ", their first overtly political song, addresses positive and negative aspects of American history, celebrating cultural figures such as Otis Redding, Duke Ellington, and Walt Whitman while condemning slavery, Joseph McCarthy, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Vietnam War .< ref name =" Luerssen "> Stevenson wrote " One More Day " about the death of his father, who he had taken in and cared for throughout the last year of his life: " He and I always had a terrible relationship.

Mekuti, or Mae Ku, may not have had an opportunity to do anything.

Some CORE main leadership had strong disagreements with the Deacons for Defense and Justice over the Deacons ' public threat to racist Southerners that they would use armed self-defense to protect CORE workers from racist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, in Louisiana during the 1960s.

During the 1920s, Niebuhr spoke out against the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Detroit, which had recruited many members threatened by the rapid social changes.

Schwerner had been targeted by the Ku Klux Klan after he and his wife, Rita, had taken over a field office in Meridian, Mississippi.