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Meet the New Klan, Same as the Old Klan (Almost)

THEY'RE BACK

The Ku Klux Klan had its first revival in the ’20s, when membership soared in the North, and its faux populist rhetoric eerily anticipates the current model’s blather.

Linda Gordon
Linda Gordon
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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
Linda Gordon

Linda Gordon

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