{"slug": "ku-klux-klan", "label": "Ku Klux Klan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47131", "qid": "Q47131", "description": "American white supremacist hate group", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [1821, 1979], "span_label": ["1821 CE", "1979 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "georgia-u-s-state", "label": "Georgia (U.S. state)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1821, "year_label": "1821 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (d. 1877)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366198623#July–September", "title": "1821", "revid": 1366198623, "section": "Births › July–September"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – Jonathan Shank and Barry Ownby form the Ku Klux Klan in the American South, to resist Reconstruction and intimidate carpetbaggers and scalawags, as well as to repress the freedpeople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#December", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Colfax massacre: More than 60 to 150 black men are murdered in Colfax, Louisiana, while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370305657#April", "title": "1873", "revid": 1370305657, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Nathan Bedford Forrest, American Confederate Civil War General, first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan (b. 1821)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370239819#July–December", "title": "1877", "revid": 1370239819, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – William J. Simmons revives the American Civil War era Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#November", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 27", "text": "May 27 – The Ku Klux Klan in the United States defies a law requiring publication of its membership.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#May–June", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – The Ku Klux Klan, the largest fraternal racist organization in the United States, demonstrates its popularity by holding a parade with an estimated 30,000-35,000 marchers in Washington, D.C.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#August", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – Civil rights movement: A Freedom Riders bus is fire-bombed near Anniston, Alabama, and the civil rights protestors are beaten by an angry mob of Ku Klux Klan members.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#May", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, hitchhiking in Meadville, Mississippi, are kidnapped, beaten and murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Their badly decomposed bodies are found by chance in July during the search for missing activists Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#May", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1979, "year_label": "1979 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – Greensboro massacre: In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a \"Death to the Klan\" rally.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371786119#November", "title": "1979", "revid": 1371786119, "section": "Events › November"}}]}