Object Details
- associated institution
- Ku Klux Klan
- Description
- 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.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Hoffman
- ID Number
- 1992.0401.02
- catalog number
- 1992.0401.02
- accession number
- 1992.0401
- Object Name
- Hood
- Physical Description
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 27 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 69.85 cm x 29.21 cm
- place made
- United States
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, Civil Rights Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- American Democracy
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Fraternal Associations
- Ku Klux Klan
- Record ID
- nmah_1121405
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-814c-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
