Ku Klux Klan

What is the Klan?

The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a fraternal, patriotic movement promoting the ideals of Western Christian Civilization and White Racial political self-determination. It is not merely a "social association", but a dynamic, crusading White movement of world-historical perspective seeking the establishment of White Christian Political Self Determination. It is working to rebuild our collapsing society on the principles of Christian honor, honesty, duty, courage, brotherhood, and patriotism. The Klan is sometimes referred to as the Invisible Empire because it is an entirely new community in itself. As the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan strives toward the ideals it wants for tomorrow, it lives by those today.

The Klan Stands For:

The White Race

· The irreplaceable hub of our Nation, our Christian faith, and the high levels of Western culture and technology.

America First

· First before any foreign or alien influence or interest, and a foreign policy of military non-intervention.

The Constitution

· As originally written and intended. The finest system of government ever conceived by man, which is based on the Holy Bible and Christian Common Law.

Free Enterprise

· Private property and ownership of business, but an end to high-finance exploitation. We advocate economic nationalism and we oppose the Federal Reserve bank and so-called "free trade".

Positive Christianity

· The right of the American people to practice their Christian faith - including prayer in schools. Many Klan members and supporters are involved with the growing Christian Identity religion, which continues to unite the Christian Patriot Movement in the United States.

Supplemental Information

The Klan was founded in 1915 in Georgia, but grew in the 1920’s calling the 20’s the beginning of the 2nd era. Most of their popularity came from association with religious and patriotic institutions. By 1924, membership had reached somewhere between 2 and 4 million. While the Klan was in power, the marched openly and defiantly down streets of major cites, including Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C.

One of the Klan’s efforts was to keep Governor Al Smith of New York from winning the Democratic presidential nomination in 1924. The Klan did its part to spread anti-Catholic rumors that the Pope, crowed in the Vatican, aspired to new headquarters in the Mississippi Valley and that his minions were tunneling their way under the Atlantic Ocean to give orders to Smith in New York. The Klan declined when financial and sexual scandals committed by the leaders were found out.

The Klan was based on traditionalism and creating an irrational fear.

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