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The Ku Klux Klan (/ˌkuː klʌks ˈklæn, ˌkjuː-/),[b] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans as well as Jews, immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Catholics, Muslims, and atheists.[21][22]

Ku Klux Klan

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Ku Klux Klan insignia

In existence

1st Klan

1865–1871

2nd Klan

1915–1944

3rd Klan

1950–present

Member count

1st Klan

Unknown

2nd Klan

3,000,000–6,000,000[1]

(peaked in 1924–1925)

3rd Klan

5,000–8,000[2]

Properties

Political ideologies

Before and after 1915:

White supremacy

White nationalism

Nordicism

Segregationism

Christian terrorism[3][4]

Neo-Confederatism

After 1915:

Right-wing populism

Social conservatism[a]

Antisemitism[13][14][15][16]

Anti-immigration

Anti-communism

Anti-Islam[17][18]

Anti-Catholicism

Anti-globalization

Homophobia

Neo-fascism (after 1950)

Neo-Nazism (after 1950)

Political position

Far-right

Espoused religion

Protestantism (second Klan)[19]

Christian Identity

(second and third Klans)[20]