Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866-1871.Stanley F. Horn

1940 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-418
Author(s):  
Herbert T. Schuelke
Keyword(s):  
Ku Klux Klan

Hatred and Profits: Under the Hood of the Ku Klux Klan*

2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 1883-1925 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland G. Fryer ◽  
Steven D. Levitt
Keyword(s):  
Residential Mobility ◽  
Ku Klux Klan ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Multilevel Marketing ◽  
Religious Intolerance ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
Terrorist Organization ◽  
Sales Agents

Abstract In this article, we analyze the 1920s Ku Klux Klan, those who joined it, and its social and political impact by combining a wide range of archival data sources with data from the 1920 and 1930 U.S censuses. We find that individuals who joined the Klan in some cities were more educated and more likely to hold professional jobs than the typical American. Surprisingly, we find little evidence that the Klan had an effect on black or foreign-born residential mobility or vote totals. Rather than a terrorist organization, the 1920s Klan is best described as social organization with a very successful multilevel marketing structure fueled by an army of highly incentivized sales agents selling hatred, religious intolerance, and fraternity in a time and place where there was tremendous demand.

Hooded Knights on the Niagara: The Ku Klux Klan in Buffalo, New York.

1997 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1447
Author(s):  
David Chalmers ◽  
Shawn Lay
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ku Klux Klan

Ex-Slaveholders and the Ku Klux Klan:

After Slavery ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
MICHAEL W. FITZGER ALD
Keyword(s):  
Ku Klux Klan

The Culture of Vigilantism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine McNicol Stock
Keyword(s):  
Ku Klux Klan ◽  
Native People

However progressive their notions of reform, rural Americans’ anger has long found expression through violence as well as conventional politics. Class, race, religious, and ethnic resentments played a part in nearly all rural movements. The Paxton Boys of Pennsylvania advocated the killing of native people. Populist ideology contained frequent anti-Semitic references. Southern Populists also joined the Ku Klux Klan. Violence uniquely marked the American countryside from the days of the frontier.

Teaching Peace or Violence?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Lange
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ku Klux Klan ◽  
Ethnic Violence ◽  
Hate Groups ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Ethnic Consciousness ◽  
Teaching Peace

This chapter argues that education contributes to ethnic violence, in contrast to popular beliefs and the literature suggesting that it promotes peace and tolerance rather than hatred and violence. The chapter first considers a variety of grounds to debunk universal claims that education promotes peaceful social relations before discussing the educational backgrounds of intolerant, hateful, and violent people by focusing on two notorious hate groups of all time: the Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). It also shows that terrorists have relatively high levels of education and cites mounting evidence that education commonly contributes to violence against Others. Again using the Nazis and their doctors as examples, the chapter shows that education might strengthen ethnic consciousness, intensify emotional prejudice, create ethnic obligations, and provide mobilizational resources.

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