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Understanding the Ku Klux Klan: A Historical Quiz

This quiz aims to test your knowledge about the Ku Klux Klan, its history, and its impact on American society. Answer the questions to learn more about this significant and controversial organization.

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1 Which of the following titles did Ku Klux Klan have?

2 According to a report from the Southern Regional Council in ________, the homes of forty black Southern families were bombed during 1951 and 1952.

3 In February, former Union General and Congressman Benjamin Franklin Butler of ________ introduced the Ku Klux Klan Act.

4 Her lawsuit against the ________ was tried in February 1987.

5 Bayou Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, prevalent in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, ________ and other areas of the Southeastern U.S.

6 The new Klan was inaugurated in 1915 at a meeting led by William J. Simmons on top of ________.

7 As the following examples indicate, over 2,000 persons were killed, wounded and otherwise injured in ________ within a few weeks prior to the Presidential election of November 1868.

8 The first Klan was founded in 1865 by ________ veterans of the Confederate Army.

9 [58] Nonetheless, the goals that the Klan had failed to achieve itself, such as suppressing ________ for Southern blacks and driving a wedge between poor whites and blacks, were largely accomplished by the 1890s by militant Southern whites.

10 Which of the following labels did Ku Klux Klan work with?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after serving as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, Joseph Alexander Cooper was enlisted to suppress Ku Klux Klan disturbances in Tennessee.
  • in 1967 the Ku Klux Klan bombed both Beth Israel synagogue of Jackson, Mississippi and the house of its rabbi.
  • in the 1950s, the names and telephone numbers of women who attended the integrated meetings of civil rights activist Virginia Foster Durr were published in a Ku Klux Klan magazine.
  • radio evangelist "Fighting Bob" Shuler, known for his attacks on politicians and support of the Ku Klux Klan, received 25% of the votes in a 1932 US Senate election in California.
  • South Carolina's Redneck Shop, which sells Ku Klux Klan memorabilia, is located in a building owned by a black Baptist pastor.
  • A. Roswell Thompson, a taxi operator and a figure in the Ku Klux Klan, ran for governor of Louisiana in 1959, 32 years before David Duke waged his more publicized race in 1991.
  • Hiram Wesley Evans (pictured), the second Imperial Wizard of the "second" Ku Klux Klan, boasted of having helped re-elect Calvin Coolidge as U.S. President.
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest High School in Jacksonville, Florida is only one of two schools left in the United States named after the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Roy Frankhouser, a Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, was arrested at least 142 times.
  • W. Horace Carter won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for anti-KKK reporting, "waged on their own doorstep at the risk of economic loss and personal danger" that led to the conviction of over 100 Klansmen.
  • African-American Lemuel A. Penn, murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on suspicion of being a civil rights activist, was actually a career soldier and Bronze Star recipient.
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