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Klan

noun

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. Synonyms: KKK, Ku Klux Klan.

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"Klan" Quotes from Famous Books

... The arm of State authority was paralyzed, the operation of courts of justice was suspended, lawlessness and individual license walked abroad, and anarchy, pure and simple, prevailed. Under the name of the "Ku Klux Klan," the South was bound by the following oath, ironclad, paradoxical ...

— Black and White - Land, Labor, and Politics in the South • Timothy Thomas Fortune

... "'Ku Klux Klan. A name derived from the fanciful resemblance to the sound produced by cocking a rifle. This terrible secret society was formed by some ex-Confederate soldiers in the Southern states after the Civil War, and it rapidly formed local ...

— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

... first of all, a forceful, dramatic, absorbing love story, with a sequence of events so surprising that one is prepared for the fact that much of it is founded on actual happenings; but Mr. Dixon has, as before, a deeper purpose—he has aimed to show that the original formers of the Ku Klux Klan were modern knights errant taking the only means at hand ...

— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.

Words linked to "Klan" : grand dragon, terrorism, Kluxer, terrorist group, south, terrorist act, FTO, terrorist organization, Ku Kluxer, secret society, act of terrorism, foreign terrorist organization, klavern, Ku Klux Klan, KKK, Klansman