This day in history June 21, 2020-KKK
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Started by metmike - June 21, 2020, 11:14 p.m.

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1964 – Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.


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By metmike - June 21, 2020, 11:24 p.m.
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The Ku Klux Klan (/ˌkklʌksˈklæn, ˌkj-/),[a] commonly called the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans as well as Jews, immigrants, leftists, members of the LGBT community and, until recently, Catholics.[9] The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States. Each has advocated extremist reactionary positions such as white nationalism, anti-immigration and – especially in later iterations – Nordicism,[10][11] antisemitism, prohibition, homophobia, Islamophobia, and anti-Catholicism.


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The "Ku Klux Klan" name was used by numerous independent local groups opposing the civil rights movement and desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace of Alabama.[41] Several members of Klan groups were convicted of murder in the deaths of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and children in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.

As of 2016, researchers estimate that there are just over 30 active Klan groups existing in the United States,[42] with about 130 chapters.[43] Estimates of total collective membership range from about 3,000[42] to between 5,000–8,000.[43] In addition to its active membership, the Klan has an "unknown number of associates and supporters".[42]

Today, many sources classify the Klan as a "subversive or terrorist organization".[44][45][46][47] In April 1997, FBI agents arrested four members of the True Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Dallas for conspiracy to commit robbery and for conspiring to blow up a natural gas processing plant.[48] In 1999, the city council of Charleston, South Carolina passed a resolution declaring the Klan a terrorist organization.[49] In 2004, a professor at the University of Louisville began a campaign to have the Klan declared a terrorist organization in order to ban it from campus.[50]