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Ku Klux Klan
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- a secret society of white men founded in the S States after the Civil War to reestablish and maintain white supremacy
- a secret society organized in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915 as “the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”: it is anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, etc., and uses terrorist methods
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