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Klan Revival (1954-1974)

Klan revival Resistance to civil rights movement brought about a brief revival of the Klan trying to block the desegregation process, after 1954.

White Collar Ku Klux Klan

Citizens Council (infl, Uptown Klans; White collar Ku Klux Klan) Council of white small businessmen and local politicians formed to fight the Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation ruling, started in Indianola, Mississippi 1954 and spread throughout the South, becoming Mississippi’s most powerful political machine, reaching its height with the election of Gov. Ross Barnett, 1960s.

Beckworth defense Citizens Council raised thousands of dollars for the defense of a supporter, Byron De La Beckworth, who was finally convicted of the 31-year old case of killing civil rights leader Medger Evers, 1994.

Chessmen (Blackshirts) Violent Klan faction active in the Carolinas, late 1950s.

Original Ku Klux Klan

Original Ku Klux Klan Organized in Arkansas 1959 and spread to Louisiana 1960. It had disappeared by 1962, but its Louisiana arm survived as the Louisiana Knights of the KKK.

Louisiana Knights of the KKK Louisiana arm that survived of the Original Ku Klux Klan. White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Militant faction of the Louisiana-based Original KKK, organized in Brookhaven, Mississippi, in February 1964, which spread terror and murder against civil rights workers and others in the next three years. No. 1 Cross burning. No. 2 Whipping. No. 3 Firebombing, this could only be authorized by the highest-ranking Klansman. No. 4 Killing that could only be authorized by the highest-ranking Klansman. Bowers trial Trial of Sam Bowers, Imperial Wizard leader of the Mississippi White Knights, who was put on trial 5 times for ordering the killing of Vernon Dahmer, who helped blacks to register to vote on 10 January 1965, but was freed each time with hung all-white juries. Found guilty by a mixed race jury, 1998.

United Klans of America

United Klans of America Coalition of Klans brought together by Robert Skelton in Alabama in July 1961. An increasingly urban phenomenon by the early 1960s, the third Klan spread rapidly across the South and tentatively into the Middle West and Southwest. They could do little in the face of the massive changes in civil rights, 1960s.

Kloncilium Fifteen genii serving as the imperial wizard’s command staff. Yellow dog Informal hazing ritual and test of loyalty practiced by some units of the United Klans. Royal Order of the Purple Dog Hazing ritual like yellow dog, but practiced by imperial officers.

Young Men's Social Club Cover for klaverns of the United Klans in Bessemer and Dora, Alabama, which were exposed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1965.

Wills Valley Hunting Club Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Willow Springs, North Carolina, which was exposed in 1965.

Wilder's Golf Club Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Selma, North Carolina, which was exposed in 1965.

Sneads Ferry Fellowship Club Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Sneads Ferry, North Carolina, which was exposed in 1965.

Wildwood Sportsman Club Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Wildwood, Florida, which was exposed in 1965.

White Patriots Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Brantley, Alabama, which was exposed in 1965.

White People's March for Freedom Cover for a klavern of the United Klans in Ashland, Mississippi, exposed 1965.

White Crusaders of the North Group of ex-klansmen in Cumberland County, New Jersey who reformed after a cross-burning ceremony outside of Cedarville, November 1966.

White Crusaders for God and Country Suspected front group for the White Crusaders of the North, active between December 1966 and April 1967.

White Christian Crusaders Pennsylvania faction formed by defectors from the United Klans of America which adopted paramilitary garb based on SS uniforms of Nazi Germany, March 1971.