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Part Two: The Grifters Who Resurrected the KKK

Behind the Bastards

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The Ku Klux Klansman's Preachings of Marcus Garvey

In 1925, the KKK even carried out an attack on the home of the young Malcolm X. The Klan was finally brought down not by the US government, but by its leaders' incompetence and greed. There were countless scandals and arrests that led to 19 people being charged with various felonies. Members caught drinking and bootlegging and paying for back alley abortions. They picked a fight with Jad Gerhuver. Not a smart guy to pick a fight in 1924. It actually is how his autobiography starts.

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