The Ku Klux Klan is an American white supremacist and far-right hate group that has operated in three major iterations since the Reconstruction era. It uses violence and intimidation to target African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, and is considered one of the earliest terrorist groups in the United States. The first Klan was founded in 1865 by former Confederate soldiers, the second in 1915, and a third wave emerged in the mid-20th century. Despite declines, affiliated groups remain active.
CRIMENET has extracted 36 linkages for this organization, including 8 cooperative ties across 6 organizations, 9 conflicts across 8 organizations, 19 other connections and footprints in 9 countries.
In Australia in the late 1990s, former One Nation party member Peter Coleman established Klan branches in several parts of the country...
Klan organizers also operated in Canada, particularly in Saskatchewan in 1926 and 1928, where Klansmen denounced immigrants from Eastern Europe as a threat to Canada's 'Anglo-Saxon' heritage.
In the 1920s, a small Klan presence also briefly existed in Shanghai.
In Cuba, an organization known as the Ku Klux Klan Kubano targeted West Indian migrant workers and Afro-Cubans...
On 16 February 1872, white settlers in the Kingdom of Fiji formed a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan...
In Germany, a KKK-related group called Ritter des Feurigen Kreuzes ('Knights of the Fiery Cross') was founded in 1925 in Berlin...
A Klan presence has also been reported in the Panama Canal Zone.
The Navi Clan ('Holy Church of the White Race') was founded in Russia in 1996 and adopted Klan-style robes and rituals modeled on those of the Ku Klux Klan.
Recruitment activity has periodically been reported in the United Kingdom. In the 1960s, klaverns were established in the Midlands...