Most people are familiar with the Ku Klux Klan as a secret and exclusively white group that terrorized former African American slaves following the Civil War. The "second" KKK in the 1920's was a mass movement of between 2 to 6 million members.

In Atlanta, in 1915, the Klan of the WW 1 era allowed membership to white, native-born Protestant males, (otherwise know as 100% Americans). They were required to swear oaths to secrecy, obedience, fidelity, and klanishness. The "second" KKK was viewed as a response to growing demands for rights by women, African Americans, and the young.

Discoverers found minutes from the 1920's Klan chapter of more than 3 hundred members of the La Grande, Oregon KKK records. The documents are the only complete set of Klan mi

In the late 50's and early 60's, Medgar Evers was a black leader in a struggle to gain equal rights for blacks in his home state. He made campaigns to register black voters and organized boycotts of firms that practiced racial discrimination. On June 12th, 1963, Evers was killed by a gunman in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Byron De La Beckwith, was tried several times for the murder of Evers, but was not convicted until February, 1994. At that time Beckwith was 73 years old, and was sentenced to life in prison.

"I think they're brainwashing kids because they have black studies. They teach things that have white people in it, but they don't call it white studies." He says when he gets married and has kids, he won't force his kids into the Klan or into being racist, because he feels that is brainwashing, also, though he still wants his kids to grow up proud whites.

Steven McNames is a separatist from the New Order Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He is 16 years old and lives in Overland, Mississippi. From an interview, a reporter says Steven doesn't really want to kill anybody or hurt anybody; he just wants to be able to do his own thing and be proud of being white. He feels the Klan should be able to hold their rallies, talk to people, pass out their literature, do whatever is legal. He talks about how real racism in the country is against them, because a black person could go around and say "Black power," and if a white person said "White power," he would get in trouble. He feels upset that black people can make anti-white statements to him, but if he makes an anti-black statement, he risks a beating. He says he doesn't hate anybody, except the Jews. Steven's parents didn't raise him to be racist, but they weren't against him being in the Klan. He stated, "There's all different kinds of requirements to join. You might hear some crap that you have to kill somebody, but that's completely untrue. You just meet the leader, get to know him. When he trusts you, pay some kind of fee so he can get all your stuff, like your uniform, your identification card. We don't wear the robes. We wear T-shirts, black, button-up shirts, boots and pants. On a comments about school he says,

The 1978 case involving the American Nazi Party and Skokie, Illinois, established the right of any group to apply for and r

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