table represent approximate time periods.) Year Membership 1920 4,000,000 [ 98 ] 1924 6,000,000 1930 30,000 1980 5,000 2008 6,000 Later Klans, 1950 through 1960s Soviet propaganda poster ( Freedom, American style , 1950, by Nikolay Dolgorukov and Boris Efimov ), showing the KKK's lynchings of blacks. The name "Ku Klux