The Ku Klux Klan: American Fascists (TRIH ep 657, part 4)
1921 · Resource
In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook examine the rise and fall of the second Ku Klux Klan in the United States, focusing on its spectacular public events such as the 1923 Kokomo picnic in Indiana and the 1923 Texas State Fair Klan Day. They trace the Klan’s transformation from a fraternal marketing operation led by William J.
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Around 1921
- Irish revolutionary period (1912)
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- Great Depression (1929)
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)