Let's say this upfront: Picking out the "worst" crimes committed in the history of the Ku Klux Klan is difficult because literally everything they do, say, promote, and stand for is the worst kind of awful. The KKK was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. It started out as a secret society promoting white racial superiority and the idea that post-Civil War America should look pretty much the same as pre-Civil War America. The ideas of the KKK took off because there were lots of people who...
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Let's say this upfront: Picking out the "worst" crimes committed in the history of the Ku Klux Klan is difficult because literally everything they do, say, promote, and stand for is the worst kind of awful. The KKK was founded in 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. It started out as a secret society promoting white racial superiority and the idea that post-Civil War...
The United States is a complex place. We have national treasures like beloved singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. Alternately, we have hate groups like the 164-year-old Klu Klux Klan, whose ire has evolved over the years from murderous racism against Blacks to now include Jewish people, immigrants, and members of the LGBTQ+ community...
According to the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris University, sometime in the mid-1940s, encyclopedia salesman and enthusiastic racist John S. Perkins had his wrist cut open with a jackknife and swore a blood oath: "Klansman," he was asked, "do you solemnly swear by God and the Devil never to betray secrets entrusted to you as a Klavalier of the...
When it comes to naming the greatest basketball players of all time, it's widely accepted that Michael Jordan is the king. As Britannica explains, he's arguably the most famous and most influential person to ever play the game. He got his start as a rising college freshman, who very quickly made a name for himself after winning the 1982...
It might not be surprising that a white supremacist group as well-known as the Ku Klux Klan has a pretty messed-up history. Their white robes and ghost-like masks carried an air of ominous terror in the South for many years. Even silly names like "grand wizard" lost all of their silliness amid the murder, terror, and destruction this group has caused...
