The Ku Klux Klan

GPTKB entity

Statements (50)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:activePeriod gptkb:Reconstruction_era
gptkb:Civil_Rights_era
early 20th century
present day (smaller groups)
gptkbp:bannedIn U.S. federal government (various times)
gptkbp:class gptkb:Southern_Poverty_Law_Center
gptkb:Anti-Defamation_League
hate group
gptkbp:foundedIn gptkb:Pulaski,_Tennessee,_United_States
1865
gptkbp:founder six Confederate veterans
gptkbp:headquarters gptkb:United_States
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label The Ku Klux Klan
gptkbp:ideology gptkb:antisemitism
gptkb:racism
white supremacy
anti-Catholicism
anti-immigration
nativism
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy
gptkbp:leaderTitle gptkb:Imperial_Wizard
Grand Dragon
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:The_Birth_of_a_Nation_(1915_film)
gptkbp:membership declined significantly after 1960s
gptkbp:motto Non Silba Sed Anthar (Not for self, but for others)
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:March_on_Washington,_1925
gptkb:bombing_of_16th_Street_Baptist_Church
gptkb:Freedom_Summer_murders
violent opposition to Civil Rights Movement
gptkbp:notableFor gptkb:murder
gptkb:terrorist_attack
cross burning
hate crimes
intimidation of African Americans
gptkbp:opposedBy gptkb:U.S._government
civil rights organizations
gptkbp:opposedGroups gptkb:African-American
gptkb:Jews
gptkb:Catholics
immigrants
gptkbp:relatedLegislation gptkb:Enforcement_Acts
gptkb:Ku_Klux_Klan_Act_of_1871
gptkbp:status fragmented into small groups
gptkbp:symbol burning cross
white robes
hoods
gptkbp:website various, no central official site
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Secret_Societies
gptkbp:bfsLayer 6