McVeigh (sociology, U. of Notre Dame) covers the nationalistic agenda of the Ku Klux Klan, noting that the organization was involved in a wide variety of social and economic causes in addition to thei
The Ku Klux Klan has peaked three times in American history: after the Civil War, around the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, and in the 1920s, when the Klan spread farthest and fastest. Recruiting millio
