It helped prepare a bill to control the Klan.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The Klan was a secret organization of white men.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The committee heard reports of the Klan's brutal acts.

VOA: special.2010.02.18

The oddity is that the mid-west has relatively few blacks, and is therefore not the Klan's natural turf.

ECONOMIST: Blacks and whites

Chester Quarles, a professor at the University of Mississippi, says the Klan has transformed itself in recent years.

ECONOMIST: The Ku Klux Klan

His progress up the ladder of the Klan was an attempt to climb out of the social class he had been born into.

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