I had forgotten about the Ku Klux Klan,” said Ann Downing Schmidt, The Colorado Statesman’s Washington, D.C., correspondent.

The Indiana Klan peaked under Stephenson, who was known as a spellbinding orator. He used churches to recruit. Stephenson, ...

Shootings in several Pittsburgh-area neighborhoods over the Fourth of July weekend left multiple people injured and two people dead. KDKA is announcing the launch of KDKA Originals, a new documentary ...

In Lee, et al. v. Trump, plaintiffs seek justice for President Donald Trump’s alleged actions on Jan. 6, 2021, that ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! An excerpt from "Ku Klux Klan: The Invisible Empire", a CBS Reports documentary from 1965 that traces the history of the Ku Klux Klan including its ...

The NAACP filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump and others over their role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol — and it cites a rarely used law passed after the Civil War. The ...

Carrying burning crosses and advocating white supremacy, more than 1,200 members of the Ku Klux Klan — with many wearing hooded white robes — paraded in July 1923 in downtown Topeka, The Topeka Daily ...

Many men went to Cleveland hoping, trying to put an anti-Ku Klux Klan plank in the Republican platform. They had prepared a plank which read thus: This party pledges itself and its candidates to stand ...

“We know enough of its extent, its composition, and the various forms it took, to feel sure that it was neither an accident nor a scheme. It was no man’s contrivance, but an historical development.” ...

The Ku Klux Klan got rolling in the American South after the Civil War. Its aim was to thwart Republicans placing freed slaves in state legislatures and high government positions. The Klansmen of that ...

Saturday morning, a Glen Burnie neighborhood woke up to at least 30 plastic baggies holding gravel and a flier urging people to join the Ku Klux Klan. More Ku Klux Klan fliers were found in Anne ...

Whether he got $146,500 or $145,500 or $90,000 (as variously reported) Emperor William Joseph Simmons, founder of the present organization, last week severed all connections with the Ku Klux Klan and ...