#356 | The Ku Klux Klan: A History of Hate
English Learning for Curious Minds
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan
The KKK enjoyed very brief localized revivals in the late 1980s and then again in the early 2000s. The Southern Poverty Law Center estimated in 2017 that there were, and I'm quoting directly, at least 29 separate rival Klan groups currently active in the United States. And all of this brings us back to the modern day, the age of the internet and social media. Huge cross-burning rallies like the one in Seattle you heard about at the start no longer exist. But clearly, the hateful ideas and values of the Ku Klux Klan have gone nowhere.
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