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Ku Klux Klan

1 Which of the following titles did Ku Klux Klan have?

2 According to a report from the Southern Regional Council in ________, the homes of forty black Southern families were bombed during 1951 and 1952.

3 In February, former Union General and Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of ________ introduced the Ku Klux Klan Act.

4 Her lawsuit against the ________ was tried in February 1987.

5 Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, prevalent in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, ________ and other areas of the Southeastern U.S.

6 The new Klan was inaugurated in 1915 at a meeting led by William J. Simmons on top of ________.

7 As the following examples indicate, over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in ________ within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868.

8 The first Klan was founded in 1865 by ________ veterans of the Confederate Army.

9 [58] Nonetheless, the goals that the Klan had failed to achieve itself, such as suppressing ________ for Southern blacks and driving a wedge between poor whites and blacks, were largely accomplished by the 1890s by militant Southern whites.

10 Which of the following labels did Ku Klux Klan work with?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee?
  • in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi?
  • in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine?
  • radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California?
  • South Carolina's Redneck Shop, which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor?
  • A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991?
  • Hiram Wesley Evans (pictured), the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President?
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?
  • Roy Frankhouser, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, was arrested at least 142 times?
  • W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti-KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen?
  • African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient?
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