Ku Klux Klan

A political cartoon depicting the KKK and the Democratic party as continuations of the Confederacy - nowadays the KKK would be more associated with the Republican end of the American political spectrum

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a social and cultural movement in the United States. It aims at the suppression of African-American, Jewish, Homosexual, and Catholic interests. Violence and intimidation are historically the means used to achieve these ends. . Its active membership is estimated to be less than 10,000 in the United States. While some members of the Klan claim it to be a Christian organization, most Christians deem it inherently un-Christian if not anti-Christian.

Further reading

• John Edgerton, Poverty Palace: How the Southern Poverty Law Center got rich fighting the Klan, The Progressive (July, 1988).
• Best Source of Misplaced Paranoia , New York Sun.
• Nieman Watchdog Project. Nonprofit Organizations. Spring 1999 Conference.
• Raymond A. Schroth, HATE.COM - Morris Dees and HBO documentary receive negative assessment, National Catholic Reporter, Oct 13, 2000.