The KKK sounds exactly like the Republican's MAGA party today...

# **1982 Interview With A Grand Wizard - It's WILD!! **

The KKK sounds exactly like the Republicans today...

https://youtu.be/lXFLh9EbPCI

Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, “An Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes”

In December 1865, at nearly the same time the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery nationwide, a group of former Confederates formed a self-proclaimed “self-defense” organization—the Ku Klux Klan. Former General Nathan Bedford Forrest served as its first “Grand Dragon” and from 1866 onward Klansmen engaged in a campaign of terrorist violence against African Americans, Unionists, loyal state government agents, and federal officers in the South. Introduced by Representative Samuel Shellabarger of Ohio, the KKK Act –officially known as an “Act to enforce the Provisions of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and for other Purposes”—was the third of a set increasingly detailed efforts to curb the violence and protect African Americans and Reconstruction authorities and allies in the South. The modern version of the KKK Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, is one of the primary means of vindicating federal constitutional rights against state and local actors even today.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/ku-klux-klan-act-of-1871-april-20-1871-an-act-to-enforce-the-provisions-of-the-fourteenth-amendment-to-the-constitution-of-the-united-states-and-for-other-purposes

https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/160/ku_klux_klan_act.html

The 150-year-old Ku Klux Klan Act being used against Trump in Capitol attack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/18/ku-klux-klan-act-capitol-attack/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ku-klux-act-passed-by-congress

Ku Klux Klan - An American History: Part 1

The first Klan founded by Confederate veterans used terrorism—both physical assault and murder—against politically active Black people and their allies in the Southern United States in the late 1860s. It’s a painful chapter in US History and to the best of my knowledge not covered enough in schools.

The second iteration of the Klan originated in the late 1910s, and was the first to use cross burnings and hooded robes. The KKK of the 1920s had a membership in the millions and local chapters were all independent. The third Klan in the late 20th century used murders and bombings to achieve its aims. All three movements have called for the "purification" of American society, and are all considered far-right extremist organizations. In each era, membership was secret and estimates of the total were highly exaggerated by both friends and enemies.

Watch 'Ku Klux Klan - An American History: Part 2

The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest terrorist group in the United States. This secret society, created in 1865, has survived throughout the decades and has always managed to rise from its ashes. It has been making the news for over 150 years. 150 years of hatred, racism and horror. A cruel history whose demons still haunt America. Part 1: In 1865, a handful of Southern Civil War veterans founded a secret society: the Ku Klux Klan. Very quickly, the Klan instituted a reign of terror among the recently freed black population. Murders and lynchings were common.

In Washington, Congress launched an offensive against the invisible empire, which was officially destroyed in 1872. The Ku Klux Klan was reborn in 1915 thanks to the film The Birth of a Nation by D. W. Griffith. Under new leadership, it evolved to fit into an America undergoing major changes and broadened its trade in hatred. The KKK became anti-immigrant, anti-urban, anti-communist, anti-Semitic, and anti-Catholic.

Nearly four million Americans joined what would become a highly influential mass lobbying organization. But at the end of the 1920s, scandals and the economic crisis weakened the movement, which eventually disappeared again after the Second World War.

https://youtu.be/D4ZF70ogq0I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4ZF70ogq0I&t=0s

https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/Ku-Klux-Klan-A-History-of-Racism.pdf

The First Resurgence.

After the 1915 premiere of D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation," there was a resurgence in the Ku Klux Klan in America. By the mid-1920s, nearly 4 million Americans claimed Klan membership, making them a powerful political force. "Klansville U.S.A."

Is MAGA the just newest face of **The Ku Klux Klan?

https://www.pbs.org/video/american-experience-first-resurgence/

Plus: The time Walter Winchell condemned an American Nazi rally..

In 1939, 20,000 Nazi sympathizers staged a rally in Madison Square Garden in New York City with Nazi imagery displayed next to a portrait of George Washington. Walter Winchell couldn’t allow the event to go unnoticed by the American people and condemned it on his national radio program. Later, he criticized aviator Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee for it's blatant anti-Semitism.

https://www.pbs.org/video/walter-winchell-nazi-rally-cbn5kx/

More Americans Supported Hitler Than You May Think. Here's Why One Expert Thinks That History Isn't Better Known.

These days, and especially since the [deadly rally in Charlottesville, Va., last August,](https://time.com/5009452/charlottesville-white-supremacy-dennis-mothersbaugh/) it has become clear to many Americans that the specter of Nazism in their country is not resigned to 1930s history. But until very recently, even that part of the story was less well known than it is today.

In fact, when Bradley W. Hart first started researching the history of Nazi sympathy in the United States a few years ago, he was largely driven by the absence of attention to the topic. Hart’s new book *[Hitler’s American Friends: The Third Reich’s Supporters in the United States](https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250148957)* argues that the threat of Nazism in the United States before World War II was greater than we generally remember today, and that those forces offer valuable lessons decades later — and not just because part of that story is the history of the “America First” idea, born of pre-WWII isolationism and later [reborn](https://time.com/4273812/america-first-donald-trump-history/) as a slogan for former-President Donald Trump.

“There’s certainly a raw and visceral shock to seeing swastikas [displayed in American streets](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/13/swastika-use-rise-nazis-trump-charlottesville-violence/104488402/),” Hart tells TIME. “But this is a topic I’d been working on for quite a while at that point, and while it wasn’t something I expected, it was a trend I’d been observing. I wasn’t terribly shocked but there’s still a visceral reaction when you see that kind of symbolism displayed in the 21st century.”

https://time.com/5414055/american-nazi-sympathy-book/

See also: JFK to 9/11

https://youtu.be/niTwvtokYf0

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The KKK has a history in Canada. And it can return.

2017: Canada is not immune to hate, and a look at the history of the Ku Klux Klan's expansion efforts proves it.

By [Christine Sismondo](https://macleans.ca/author/christine-sismondo/)

[Last year,](http://globalnews.ca/news/2980886/kkk-flyers-found-on-doorsteps-in-mission-chilliwack-and-abbotsford/) dozens of homes in Chilliwack, B.C., received flyers from the “loyal white knights of the Ku Klux Klan” that encouraged white people to rise up, be proud, and to “secure a future for white children.” Similar literature has been distributed door-to-door in nearby towns in Mission and [Abbottsford](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/kkk-pamphlets-abbotsford-1.3937850).

https://macleans.ca/news/canada/the-kkk-has-a-history-in-canada-and-it-can-return/

2020: How the KKK capitalized on Canada’s racism.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/how-the-kkk-capitalized-on-canadas-racism

2021: The Ku Klux Klan in Canada.

A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom.

https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/books/the-ku-klux-klan-in-canada

The rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Canada — and why its lasting impact still matters.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/sunday/the-sunday-magazine-for-november-22-2020-1.5807350/the-rise-of-the-ku-klux-klan-in-canada-and-why-its-lasting-impact-still-matters-1.5807353

The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom by Allan Bartley.

https://bookshelf.ca/product/view/9781459506138

A History of the KKK in Canada.

https://youtu.be/iJdLG59OSKk

“A Clarion Call To Real Patriots The World Over”

The Curious Case of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada in New Brunswick during the 1920s and 1930s.

https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/Acadiensis/article/view/28985/1882521856

London Ontario's Unrepentant Confederates, the Ku Klux Klan and a RENDITION on WELLINGTON STREET.

Immediately following the American Civil War, a wave of unrepentant Confederate families who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the United States Constitution flowed into Canada between 1865 and 1870. Many of those took up residence across southwestern Ontario, including in the city of London. They were joined by men, soon followed by their families, who were fleeing arrest as American President Ulysses S. Grant moved to destroy the Ku Klux Klan. This book tells the story of London’s refugee Confederates, KKK fugitives and, in particular, of one man for whom even London proved within reach of a U.S. Deputy Marshal.

Two of the Confederate States’ most prominent families, the Mazycks and Manigaults, fled into exile at London, Ontario, Canada, where their homes soon became the terminus of a new sort of ‘Underground Railroad’. Ku Klux Klan fugitives, wanted for murder and mayhem, arrived at their doors seeking sanctuary under the British flag.

https://globalgenealogy.com/countries/canada/ontario/western-ontario/resources/101478.htm

White Hoods: Canada’s Ku Klux Klan* by Julian Sher.

The book is divided into two parts, coinciding with the two major periods of Klan activity in Canada: the 1920s and early 1930s, and the late 1970s and early 1980s. During both time periods, the Canadian Klan was a northern extension ofthe Klan in the United States. However, its leaders were Canadian and to gain support they exploited ethnic and racial tensions particular to the Canadian setting. Given the small number ofblacks in Canada, the Klan focused on the threat allegedly posed by other minorities. During the 1920s, this meant Asians in British Columbia, central and eastern European Catholics on the prairies, and Catholics in Ontario.

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/614181

1927: Conflict And Struggle

Membership Ku Klux Klan 46,500, He Says So States Klan Organizer At Meeting Filling Theatre Auditorium Last Night.

https://library.usask.ca/sni/stories/con11.html

Pierre Poilievre Ignores Calls to Disavow Far-Right Extremist Identified as a National Security Threat

Poilievre’s spokesperson mocks the media after Conservative leadership candidate poses for photo with man flagged by counterterrorism unit.

https://pressprogress.ca/pierre-poilievre-ignores-calls-to-disavow-far-right-extremist-identified-as-a-national-security-threat/

‘Pierre Poilievre … actively courted the support of such people, who generally distinguish themselves as racist and misogynist.’

Along with many thousands of Canadians who paid attention to various media during the so-called freedom convoy occupation of downtown Ottawa, I learned, with some dismay, about Diagolon and other right-wing extremist groups.

At the time, Mr. Poilievre – media-savvy Ottawa-area MP and prospective Conservative leader – actively courted the support of such people, who generally distinguish themselves as racist and misogynist. But he didn’t know anything about their political backgrounds?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/letters/article-pierre-poilievre-actively-courted-the-support-of-such-people-who/

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/23/opinion/pierre-poilievre-dangerous-dance-diagolon-extremist

Poilievre is talking dangerous nonsense.

OPINION: But that’s exactly the reason why his brand of populism is going to be so difficult to counter.

https://xtramagazine.com/power/politics/pierre-poilievre-brand-populism-236084

How close is too close to the far-right? Why some experts are worried about Canada’s MPs.

https://globalnews.ca/news/8967781/how-close-is-too-close-to-the-far-right-why-some-experts-are-worried-about-canadas-mps/

Poilievre delivers speech to a group criticized for residential school 'denialism'

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-frontier-centre-residential-schools-1.6713419