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Klan   /klæn/   Listen
Klan

noun
1.
A secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people.  Synonyms: KKK, Ku Klux Klan.



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"Klan" Quotes from Famous Books



... "scalawags." But most of the Southern whites were determined to stop the misgovernment; and, banded together in secret societies, called by such names as Knights of the White Camelia, and the Ku-Klux-Klan, they terrorized the negroes and kept ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster

... amendment. Legislation for that purpose had been placed upon the statute books and they were being enforced whenever and wherever necessary, as in the case of the lawless and criminal organization called the Ku Klux Klan. But the Supreme Court, very much to the surprise of every one, stepped in and tied the hands of the national administration and prevented any further prosecutions for violence upon the person of a citizen of the United States, if committed within the limits of any one ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 • Various



Words linked to "Klan" :   grand dragon, foreign terrorist organization, Ku Kluxer, FTO, terrorist act, terrorism, KKK, terrorist group, secret society, terrorist organization, Kluxer, klavern, south, Klansman, act of terrorism



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