Ku Klux Klan

Ku′ Klux′ Klan′

American Historya secret organization in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired powers of blacks and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
American HistoryOfficial name, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. a secret organization inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and active in the southern and other parts of the U.S., directed against blacks, Catholics, Jews, and the foreign-born. Also called Ku′ Klux′.

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Ku Klux Klan /ˈkuː ˈklʌks ˈklæn/ n

a secret organization of White Southerners formed after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation and Northern domination
a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other minority groups

Etymology: 19th Century Ku Klux, probably based on Greek kuklos circle + Klan clanKu Kluxer, Ku Klux Klanner n Ku Kluxism n

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