Ku Klux Klan (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. a secret hate group in the southern U.S., active for several years after the Civil War, which aimed to suppress the newly acquired rights of Black people and to oppose carpetbaggers from the North, and which was responsible for many lawless and violent proceedings.
  2. a secret hate group inspired by the former, founded in 1915 and currently active across the U.S., especially in the South, directed against Black people, Muslims, Jews, Catholics, foreign-born individuals, and other groups.
noun
  1. a secret organization of White Southerners formed after the US Civil War to fight Black emancipation and Northern domination
  2. a secret organization of White Protestant Americans, mainly in the South, who use violence against Black people, Jewish people, and other minority groups
Ku Klux Klan (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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