The Ku Klux Klan: The Rise of Evil (TRIH eps 654-657)
1915 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the rise of the second Ku Klux Klan in the United States, a mass‑market, fraternal organization that flourished in the 1910s and 1920s. They trace its origins to Thomas Dixon’s novel The Leopard's Spot and its film adaptation The Birth of a Nation, which helped popularise Klan imagery. The hosts detail how the Klan recruited from Masonic and other fraternal orders, used sophisticated publicity by Edward Young Clark and Elizabeth Tyler,...
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