Part Two: The Grifters Who Resurrected the KKK
Behind the Bastards
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The Second Coming of the KKK
The second coming of the KKK used newspapers to stoke the buzz around their organization. It was an MLM, a multi-level marketing scheme. The Klan's membership would grow over roughly a year of PR blitzes. By the summer of 1921, the new KKK reported a membership of 850,000.
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