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Part Two: The Grifters Who Resurrected the KKK

Behind the Bastards

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The Second Coming of the KKK

By 1927, the KKK had gone from its high of like 4 million members to less than 350,000 active members nationwide. It never quite went extinct entirely. Men continue wearing Klan robes and being racist up until the modern day. But the giant money-making and political enterprise that it once was fell apart. There is substantial debate as to whether or not it actually influenced politics on a mass scale.

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