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==Second Klan==
==Second Klan==
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. which existed from 1915 to 1944, elaborated on the original prescript in its Kloran and in the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1922.{{fact}} Some titles and jurisdictional designations were carried over from the [[Reconstruction]] prescripts intact or slightly modified, and others were original with Imperial Wizard Simmons.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. which existed from 1915 to 1944, elaborated on the original prescript in its Kloran and in the constitution and by-laws adopted in 1922.{{fact}} Some titles and jurisdictional designations were carried over from the [[Reconstruction]] prescripts intact or slightly modified, and others were original with Imperial Wizard Simmons.
In Massachusetts, it was exposed by ''Hearst's International'' that prominent birth control activist [[Lothrop Stoddard]], an outspoken white supremacist, was an Exalted Cyclops of the state's Klan.<ref>1923. [https://www.google.com/books/edition/Hearst_s_International/MwLnAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=lothrop+stoddard+exalted+cyclops&pg=RA1-PA10&printsec=frontcover Hearst's International: Vol. 44], p. 10. ''Google Books''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref> Historian David M. Chalmers writes that sound evidence confirms Stoddard's KKK membership.<ref>Chalmers, David M. (1987). [https://archive.org/details/hoodedamericanis00chal/page/270 Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan], pp. 270–71. ''Internet Archive''. Retrieved December 12, 2022.</ref>
==Jurisdiction==
==Jurisdiction==