Great Crimes and Trials of the Twentieth Century
The KKK Killings
S2 • E25 Sep 16, 1996 30m
Founded originally in the aftermath of the American Civil War as a defender of white southerners against the revenge of freed black slaves, this secret society became notorious for its savage methods and white-hooded costume. Revived in the 1920s, its targets became Jews and other minorities as well as blacks. The attempts of the US government to control it were the background of the film ‘Mississippi Burning’.