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Ku Klux Klan members in white robes and hoods stand in a circle at night around a large burning cross in Tennessee. Ku Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan Black-and-white scene from The Birth of a Nation (1915) showing actors in Ku Klux Klan costumes on horseback charging down a street, with armed men fleeing in the foreground. Ku Klux Klan: meeting A man kneels before a burning cross while a hooded Ku Klux Klan member stands over him holding a chalice, surrounded by Klan members in white robes and hoods at night. Ku Klux Klan: initiation ceremony Ku Klux Klan member in a hooded robe sits in a car, holding a noose out the window
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Tennessee cross burning
The Ku Klux Klan burning a cross in Tennessee, 1948.
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Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan members parading along Pennsylvania Ave. in Washington, D.C., August...
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Ku Klux Klan
An illustration depicting two members of the Ku Klux Klan, in Harper's Weekly...
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D.W. Griffith: The Birth of a Nation
A scene from the film The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D.W. Griffith.
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Ku Klux Klan: meeting
A Ku Klux Klan meeting, 1920s.
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Initiation ceremony
A Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony, 1920s.
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Ku Klux Klan: initiation ceremony
Ku Klux Klan members holding an initiation ceremony near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Ku Klux Klan: noose
A Ku Klux Klan member dangling a noose from an automobile in an effort to intimidate...
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