Ku Klux Klan

GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Jewish_community
Ku Klux Klan
far-right organization
gptkbp:activePeriod 1865–1871
1915–1944
post-1946 (various groups)
gptkbp:alternativeName Jewish_Defense_League
white_supremacist_organization
gptkbp:countryOfOrigin gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:describedBy controversial
militant
anti-communist
anti-Arab
gptkbp:designatedAsTerroristBy FBI (historically)
gptkbp:dissolved 1871 (first era)
gptkbp:estimatedMembersAtPeak 4–5 million
gptkbp:founded 1865
gptkbp:foundedBy gptkb:Rabbi_Meir_Kahane
gptkbp:foundedIn gptkb:Pulaski,_Tennessee,_United_States
1968
gptkbp:founder six Confederate veterans
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:headquartersLocation gptkb:New_York_City
gptkbp:ideology gptkb:antisemitism
gptkb:racism
gptkb:Kahanism
Orthodox Judaism
white supremacy
anti-Catholicism
anti-immigration
nativism
Jewish nationalism
gptkbp:legalStatus classified as a terrorist organization by the Anti-Defamation League
classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:The_Birth_of_a_Nation_(1915_film)
gptkbp:motto gptkb:Never_Again
gptkb:Non_Silba_Sed_Anthar
gptkbp:notableEvent subject of media controversy
subject of criminal investigations
involved in assassination plots
involved in hate crimes
involved in violent incidents
linked to bombings
protests against Arab-American organizations
protests against Soviet Union
protests against antisemitism
protests for Soviet Jewry
subject of ADL criticism
subject of Canadian government scrutiny
subject of FBI investigations
subject of Israeli government scrutiny
subject of SPLC criticism
subject of US government scrutiny
subject of arrests
subject of civil lawsuits
subject of convictions
subject of legal actions
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:murder
gptkb:terrorist_attack
cross burning
hate crimes
intimidation of African Americans
opposition to civil rights
gptkbp:notableLeader gptkb:Nathan_Bedford_Forrest
gptkb:Irv_Rubin
gptkb:Morton_A._Klein
gptkb:Meir_Kahane
gptkb:David_Duke
gptkb:Hiram_Wesley_Evans
gptkb:William_J._Simmons
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:Federal_government_of_the_United_States
gptkb:antisemitism
civil rights organizations
anti-Zionism
neo-Nazism
Palestinian nationalism
gptkbp:peakMembership 1920s
gptkbp:region gptkb:Canada
gptkb:Israel
gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:relatedEvent gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Enforcement_Acts
gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
gptkbp:relatedGroup gptkb:African-American
gptkb:Jews
gptkb:Catholics
immigrants
LGBTQ people
other minorities
gptkbp:relatedOrganization gptkb:White_Citizens'_Councils
gptkb:Aryan_Nations
Neo-Nazi groups
gptkbp:revival 1915
gptkbp:symbol burning cross
white hood
white robe
gptkbp:website https://www.jdl.org/
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkb:Reconstruction_era
gptkb:activist
gptkb:Reconstruction_Era
gptkbp:bfsLayer 4