- Klan members known as WASPs – White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
- Believed they were superior to ALL other races – anti-communist, anti-Jew, anti-Catholic, anti-foreigners (That’s A LOT of hate!!)
- Dressed in white sheets and wore white hoods
- Designed to disguise the Klan member during their night time attacks
- White symbolized white supremacy
- Original footage from 1948 – British Pathe
- Carried American flags and lit burning crosses
- Leaders known as Imperial Wizards
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yXlfbwCZ00
- Officers of the Klan known as Klaliffs, Klud or Klabees
- Carried out lynchings of black people, beat up and mutilated their enemies
- Stripped & put tar on the bodies of some victims
- Politicians didn’t speak out against them because they didn’t want to lose their votes
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