Quick Facts
- Profession: American white supremacist terrorist group
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The Ku Klux Klan, commonly shortened to the Klan, is an American Protestant-led Christian extremist, white supremacist, far-right hate group. It was founded in 1865 during Reconstruction in the devastated South. Historians have characterized the Klan as America's first terrorist group. The group contains several organizations structured as a secret society, which have frequently resorted to terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation to impose their criteria and oppress their victims, most notably African Americans, Jews, and Catholics. A leader of one of these organizations is called a grand wizard, and there have been three distinct iterations with various other targets relative to time and place.
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- KU Alumni Lisa Bukhala Wins Leon Battista Alberti Award – The Kenya Times (2025-07-08)
- Lisa Ann Heggie Obituary (2025) – Kansas City, MO – Golden Gate Funeral & Cremation Services, LLC – Legacy | Obituary (2025-06-14)
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