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Ku Klux Klan
K k - noun ku klux klan U.S. History. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings. 1
- noun ku klux klan Official name Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. a secret hate group inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and currently active across the U.S., especially in the South, directed against black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, foreign-born individuals, and other groups. 1
- noun ku klux klan white supremacist organization 1
- proper noun ku klux klan The Ku Klux Klan is a secret organization of white Protestant men in the United States which promotes violence against black people, Jews, and other minorities. 0
- noun ku klux klan a secret organization of White Southerners formed after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation and Northern domination 0
- noun ku klux klan a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other minority groups 0
- noun ku klux klan a secret society of white men founded in the S States after the Civil War to reestablish and maintain white supremacy 0
- noun ku klux klan a secret society organized in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1915 as “the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan”: it is anti-black, anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, etc., and uses terrorist methods 0