Ku Klux Klan

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A secret society, the membership of which is limited to white men, against which legislation has been directed on account of alleged anti-Negro and anti-Semitic practices.

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  • Civil Rights Acts of 1866, 1875, 1957, 1964; Fair Housing Act; Force Act of 1871; Voting Rights Act of 1965.

    Civil Rights Acts; Civil Rights Cases; Civil Rights Movement; Jim Crow Laws.

  • Further Reading

    Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality. New York: Vintage, 1977.

    Schwartz, Bernard, ed. Statutory History of the United States: Civil Rights, Part 1. New York: Chelsea House, 1970.

    Smith, Carter, ed. One Nation Again: A Sourcebook on the Civil War. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook Press, 1993.

    Stampp, Kenneth M. The Era of Reconstruction 1865-1877. New York: Vintage, 1965.

    Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow, 3d ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1974.

    Ziff, Marsha. Reconstruction Following the Civil War in American History. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1999.


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