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American Fascism: Then and Now

TALKING POLITICS

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The Rise and Fall of the White Clan

Federal forces did in fact eradicate it in the early 1870s. In 1915, two things happened simultaneously within a few months of each other: The Birth of the Nation and Leo Frank's lynching. And those two incidents together basically sparked the rebirth of the clan. By the early 1920s, it was starting to spread across America. It was really gaining power.

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