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Klan

klæn
WordNet
Interesting fact
In 1865, several veterans of the Confederate Army formed a private social club in Pulaski, Tennessee, called the Ku Klux Klan.
  1. (n) Klan
    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
Quotations
A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
Mary Daly
Usage in the news

This time it was the Ku Klux Klan, unhappy the team had integrated . nytimes.com

I'm a 'Black Jew at a Nazi-Klan Rally'. firstcoastnews.com

The state of Georgia is asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the Ku Klux Klan after the group's application to participate in a highway cleanup program was denied. rdw.com

County councilman Eddie Moore was a member of the Ku Klux Klan "back in my early younger days" according to a deposition filed as part of a lawsuit between the county and its former administrator Joey Preston. 2.wspa.com

A federal judge has issued a permanent injunction that prohibits a ban on leafleting in Cape Girardeau, thus allowing the Ku Klux Klan to put flyers on vehicles in the southeast Missouri city. stltoday.com

Ku Klux Klan out of South Bend nearly 80 years ago. sbt.com

A Philadelphia high school student says she was harassed for wearing a Mitt Romney T-shirt her teacher likened to the Klu Klux Klan. nydailynews.com

Ku Klux Klan group has won a preliminary injunction allowing it to proceed with plans to leaflet vehicles Friday in southeast Missouri. ky3.com

It is a short history of the Ku Klux Klan in Colorado and I was struck by the similarities with the present day Tea Party. berthoudrecorder.com

The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado. berthoudrecorder.com

Locals in Selma, Alabama are upset over plans to restore a monument honoring Civil War Confederate general and former Ku Klux Klan "Grand Wizard" Gen Nathan Bedford Forrest, reports NBC News. philasun.com

That's what Melissa Shepherd calls the letter from the Ku Klux Klan that was left in her driveway Monday night. saz.com

Neighbors in Hurricane are concerned after finding dozens of letters from the Ku Klux Klan in their driveways Monday night. saz.com

Susan lives on Domin Avenue and thinks the name of the street, which was named after a Ku Klux Klan member, should be changed. valleybreeze.com

Idaho's only black lawmaker said over the weekend that she received mail from a national Ku Klux Klan organization. klewtv.com

Usage in literature

You've heard of the Know-Nothing movement in politics, I dare say, and the Ku Klux Klan. "The Woman in Black" by Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Robinson was closely tied up with the Ku Klux Klan. "Secret Armies" by John L. Spivak

De Ku Klux Klan got atter me den' bout fightin' wid a white boy. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Various

Martin, Lee Nance and Wade Perrin, representatives and B. F. Randolph, senator, were assassinated by the Ku-Klux Klan. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920" by Various

At the same time the Klan unofficially tried and executed those criminals whom the official Government refused to suppress. "A History of the United States" by Cecil Chesterton

You're sure you don't mean the Ku Klux Klan? "Peggy-Alone" by Mary Agnes Byrne

On May 30, 1872, he addressed the House on the subject of the Ku Klux Klan. "The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922" by Various

It is a clumsy attempt to forge an order of the Klan. "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon

Ku-Klux Klan, the, 52. "The New Nation" by Frederic L. Paxson

With appendices containing the prescripts of the Ku Klux Klan, specimen orders and warnings. "Introduction to the Science of Sociology" by Robert E. Park

Usage in poetry
But now we have a President,
And if I was a man
I'd vote for him for breaking up
The wicked Ku-Klux Klan.