Ku Klux Klan Hood, 1920s
name: label: associated institution
content: Ku Klux Klan
notes: label: Description
content: Founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Ku Klux Klan combated post-Civil War reforms and terrorized freed African Americans in the former Confederacy. Dormant for decades, by the mid-1920s a reconstructed Klan was again a powerful political force in both the South and the North, spreading hatred against African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews. Klan membership plummeted after a series of scandals involving its leadership. Although never as powerful as it was in the 1920s, Klan organizations rose to oppose the growing civil rights movements of the 1950s and ’60s.
place: label: place made
content: United States
topic: label: Subject
content: Fraternal Associations
label: Subject
content: Ku Klux Klan
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content: Political History: Political History, Civil Rights Collection
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
label: Exhibition
content: American Democracy
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Mr. Hoffman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1992.0401.02
label: catalog number
content: 1992.0401.02
label: accession number
content: 1992.0401
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Hood
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cloth (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 27 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 69.85 cm x 29.21 cm