Ku Klux Klan Hood, 1920s
Ku Klux Klan Hood, 1920s
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- 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.
- Object Name
- Hood
- associated institution
- Ku Klux Klan
- place made
- United States
- Physical Description
- cloth (overall material)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 27 1/2 in x 11 1/2 in; 69.85 cm x 29.21 cm
- ID Number
- 1992.0401.02
- catalog number
- 1992.0401.02
- accession number
- 1992.0401
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mr. Hoffman
- subject
- Fraternal Associations
- Ku Klux Klan
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Political History, Civil Rights Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith
- Exhibition
- Exhibition
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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