The Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan/ the KKK or the Klan, is an southern American white supremacist hate group, whose main targets are African Americans ,Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans , Native Americans, Catholics, immigrants , leftists, Muslim and atheists

The Klan has existed in three distinct eras. Each has advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white nationalism, anti-immigration and in later versons Nordicism,antisemitism, anti-Catholicism, Prohibition, right-wing populism, anti-communism,anti-atheism, Islamophobia, and anti-progressivism.

The first Klan used terrorism,physical assault and murder—against politically active Black people and their allies in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. The third Klan used murders and bombings from the late 1940s to the early 1960s to achieve its aims. All three movements have called for the "purification" of American society, and are all considered far-right extremist organizations. In each era, membership was secret and estimates of the total were highly exaggerated by the general public.