#356 | The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Hate
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The History of the Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. The name is believed to come from a combination of the Greek word for circle, keyclos, and the Scottish word, Klan, meaning group. We can split the Klan into three specific periods of history. The first phase started in 1865 and ended in 1872. The second started in 1915 and ended in around 1944. And the third started in the 1950s, grew in strength during the civil rights movement - before gradually reducing in size to the fringe movement that it is today.
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