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| Ku Klux Klan [ k klùks klán ] |
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1. 19C white supremacist group: a terrorist secret society organized in the South after the Civil War that used violence and murder to promote its white supremacist beliefs
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2. 20C white supremacist group: a white supremacist organization founded in Georgia in 1915. Its secret membership, supremacist views, and terrorist methods are similar to those of the 19th-century Ku Klux Klan.
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