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Ku Klux Klan (19th century) (Corporate Name)

Preferred form: Ku Klux Klan (19th century)
Used for/see from:
  • K.K.K. (Ku Klux Klan (19th century))
  • KKK (Ku Klux Klan (19th century))
  • Ku-Kluks-Klan (19th century)
  • Earlier heading: Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)

New Columbia ency., 1975 p. 1505 (Ku Klux Klan; two distinct secret societies; first society org. at Pulaski, Tenn., in May 1866 and disbanded in 1869; second Ku Klux Klan founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons)

Britannica online, Dec. 13, 2006 (Ku Klux Klan; either of two distinct secret terrorist organizations in the United States, one founded immediately after the Civil War and lasting until the 1870s, the other beginning in 1915 and continuing to the present; ordered disbanded in 1869; local branches remained active for a time; in 1882, the Supreme Court declared the Ku Klux Act (1871) unconstitutional, but by that time the Klan had practically disappeared)

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