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A Nation Only for Some
Ku Klux Klan marching down Pennsylvania Avenue, August 8, 1925
At the height of their political power the Ku Klux Klan, in 1925, brought to the nation’s capital over 40,000 members in full regalia to promote their ideals of white Christian supremacy before the public.Out of belief or fear, many Americans sought to limit diversity in the United States.
Ku Klux Klan
Founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Ku Klux Klan combated post-Civil War reforms and terrorized freed African Americans in the former Confederacy. Dormant for decades, by the mid-1920s a reconstructed Klan was again a powerful political force in both the South and the North, spreading hatred against African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews. Klan membership plummeted after a series of scandals involving its leadership. Although never as powerful as it was in the 1920s, Klan organizations rose to oppose the growing civil rights movements of the 1950s and ’60s. |