As 20th-century Supreme Court rulings extended federal enforcement of citizens' civil rights, the government revived the Enforcement Acts and the Klan Act from Reconstruction days. Federal prosecutors used these laws as the basis for investigations and indictments in the 1964 murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner; [275] and the 1965 murder of Viola Liuzzo. They were also the basis for prosecution in 1991 in Bray v. Alexandria Women's Health Clinic. Klan was present in Cuba, under the name of Ku Klux Klan Kubano, directed against both West Indian migrant workers and Afro-Cuban and using the fear of the 1912 Negro Rebellion. [316] [323] Asia Ku Klux Klan Circulates Antisemitic Material in Latin American Lands". Jewish Telegraph Agency. October 3, 1958. Reporting on his recent visit to Latin America, Dr. Goldstein told a meeting of the executive that he had found "anti-Semitic literature circulated by the Ku Klux Klan and mailed from the United States to a number of countries, including Argentina, Uruguay and Chile. J. Michael Martinez (2007). Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction. Rowman & Littlefield. p.24. ISBN 978-0742572614.

Sentence KKK Member, 22, to Prison for Attempt to Dynamite Jewish Home in Miss". Jewish Telegraph Agency. United States. November 29, 1968. Archived from the original on June 21, 2023. A 21 year-old alleged Klu Klux Klan member was sentenced to 30 years in the Mississippi Penitentiary today for attempting to dynamite the home of a prominent Jewish businessman last June 30 in a personal vendetta against a "Communist-Jewish conspiracy." The Various Shady Lives of The Ku Klux Klan". Time. April 9, 1965. Archived from the original on May 13, 2010 . Retrieved December 24, 2009. The Sun. "Civil War Threatened in Tennessee". September 3, 1868: 2; The Charleston Daily News. "A Talk with General Forrest". September 8, 1868: 1. Recruitment activity has also been reported in the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, "klaverns" were established in the Midlands, the following decade saw visits by leading Klansmen, and the 1990s saw recruitment drives in London, Scotland and the Midlands and huge internal turmoil and splintering: for example a leader, Allan Beshella, had to resign after 1972 conviction for child sex abuse was revealed. [327] [328] In 2018, Klan-clad far-right activists marched in front of a Northern Irish mosque. [329] In a 2007 article by the ADL, it was reported that many KKK groups had formed strong alliances with other white supremacist groups, such as neo-Nazis. Some KKK groups have become increasingly "nazified", adopting the look and emblems of white power skinheads. [292] [293] [294] Current developments

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After World War II, the folklorist and author Stetson Kennedy infiltrated the Klan; he provided internal data to media and law enforcement agencies. He also provided secret code words to the writers of the Superman radio program, resulting in episodes in which Superman took on a thinly disguised version of the KKK. Kennedy stripped away the Klan's mystique and trivialized its rituals and code words, which may have contributed to the decline in Klan recruiting and membership. [238] In the 1950s Kennedy wrote a bestselling book about his experiences, which further damaged the Klan. [239] Historiography of the second KlanKKK targets LGBT ordinance in Florida". Washington Blade. November 24, 2015. Archived from the original on August 1, 2022. The Ku Klux Klan has distributed fliers against a proposed ordinance that would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Nicole Hensley (February 18, 2015). "KKK calls on members to protest Alabama's same-sex marriages". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on August 3, 2022. Mississippi's top Ku Klux Klan leader is rallying his klansmen to protest Alabama's overturned gay marriage ban, but to leave their hoods at home. Brent Waller, imperial wizard for the state's United Dixie White Knights, took to Stormfront, an online white supremacist forum, to "salute" Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore's refusal to "bow to the yoke of Federal tyranny," he wrote. Remember, Halloween is a time to come together, have fun, and celebrate in a way that creates a positive impact.

At an 1867 meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, Klan members gathered to try to create a hierarchical organization with local chapters eventually reporting to a national headquarters. Since most of the Klan's members were veterans, they were used to such military hierarchy, but the Klan never operated under this centralized structure. Local chapters and bands were highly independent. The second Klan started in 1915 as a small group in Georgia. It suddenly started to grow after 1920 and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, including urban areas of the Midwest and West. Taking inspiration from D. W. Griffith's 1915 silent film The Birth of a Nation, which mythologized the founding of the first Klan, it employed marketing techniques and a popular fraternal organization structure. Rooted in local Protestant communities, it sought to maintain white supremacy, often took a pro- Prohibition and pro- compulsory public education [80] [81] [82] stance, and it opposed Jews, while also stressing its opposition to the alleged political power of the pope and the Catholic Church. This second Klan flourished both in the south and northern states; it was funded by initiation fees and selling its members a standard white costume. The chapters did not have dues. It used K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others. It rapidly declined in the latter half of the 1920s. Craig, Douglas B. (1992). After Wilson: The Struggle for the Democratic Party, 1920–1934. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ch. 2–3. ISBN 978-0807820582. Grinberg, Emanuella (January 27, 2017). " 'Justice failed Austin Callaway': Town attempts to atone for 1940 lynching". CNN. Archived from the original on February 2, 2017 . Retrieved February 3, 2017.A 2016 analysis by the SPLC found that hate groups in general were on the rise in the United States. [301] The ADL published a report in 2016 that concluded: "Despite a persistent ability to attract media attention, organized Ku Klux Klan groups are actually continuing a long-term trend of decline. They remain a collection of mostly small, disjointed groups that continually change in name and leadership." [120] Muslim Family in Long Island Told 'The KKK Is Coming For You' ". Newsweek. July 25, 2017. The family said it discovered the messages in its mailbox on two different occasions, with an image of a swastika posted to them as well as letters saying "KKK Hate Muslims, We will kill you, Jesus loves you" the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) reported. Emily Parker (Fall 2009). "'Night-Shirt Knights' in the City: The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Worcester, Massachusetts", New England Journal of History, Vol. 66 Issue 1, pp. 62–78.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has provided legal support to various factions of the KKK in defense of their First Amendment rights to hold public rallies, parades, and marches, as well as their right to field political candidates. [305] Polly Ross Hughes (October 27, 2005). "Prop. 2 supporters avoid anti-gay KKK rally". Houston Chronicle. Archived from the original on July 28, 2022.The Klan had numerous members in every part of the United States, but was particularly strong in the South and Midwest. At its peak, claimed Klan membership exceeded four million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, and 40% in some areas. [205] The Klan also moved north into Canada, especially Saskatchewan, where it opposed Catholics. [206] Axtman, Kris (June 23, 2005). "Mississippi verdict greeted by a generation gap". The Christian Science Monitor. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. The modern KKK is not one organization; rather, it is composed of small independent chapters across the United States. [295] According to a 1999 ADL report, the KKK's estimated size then was "No more than a few thousand, organized into slightly more than 100 units". [296] In 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors extremist groups, estimated that there were "at least 29 separate, rival Klan groups currently active in the United States, and they compete with one another for members, dues, news media attention and the title of being the true heir to the Ku Klux Klan". [297] The formation of independent chapters has made KKK groups more difficult to infiltrate, and researchers find it hard to estimate their numbers. Analysts believe that about two-thirds of KKK members are concentrated in the Southern United States, with another third situated primarily in the lower Midwest. [296] [298] [299]