A century ago, in 1925, the Ku Klux Klan came to Washington, D.C. The Klansmen had arrived in early August: the Kleagles and ...

It was the most consequential election in the city’s history, yet there has been no commemoration of the anniversary. Not a peep from the current city council, nor reflections from local publications ...

The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1866, through the efforts of a small band of Confederate veterans in Tennessee. Quickly expanding from a localized membership, the KKK has become perhaps the ...

The Ku Klux Klan was a racist group established by people who believed that white people were better and wanted to see black people remain as enslaved people. It began in the southern states at ...

Is this mere bullying, or is it a response to a real legal problem? After the Civil War, members of the Ku Klux Klan relied on masks to protect their identities when they threatened, assaulted and ...

Knox's plantation, Mount Pleasant, near Charleston, S.C. 1874. Library of Congress Historians ... to white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. Drew Gilpin Faust ...

During the 1920s, all non-Protestants, new immigrants and black Americans became targets for the Klan. They used a variety of methods to intimidate those they considered inferior. Groups of ...

Just when you thought Ye couldn't go any lower in his race-baiting game of limbo, the controversial rapper scrubs the ground by sharing images of a Ku Klux Klan outfit on social media.