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Some Protestant Churches welcomed revival of the Ku Klux Klan

By Anuoluwapo Adefiwitan, The Howard Center For Investigative Journalism The revival of the Ku Klux Klan began in November 1915 with a cross burning atop Stone Mountain, Georgia, led by Methodist preacher William Joseph Simmons, who functioned as the Klan’s Imperial Wizard. This second iteration, inspired by D.W. Griffith’s racist film “The Birth of a […]

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