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Meet the New Klan, Same as the Old Klan (Almost)
THEY'RE BACK
The Ku Klux Klan had its first revival in the ’20s, when membership soared in the North, and its faux populist rhetoric eerily anticipates the current model’s blather.
Linda Gordon
Published
Aug. 27 2017
12:00AM EDT
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast
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