Oct 06, 2020
Since its birth in 1865, in the wake of the American Civil War, the history of the Ku Klux Klan has been inseparable from that of the United States. The debates over slavery, the populism of the roaring twenties, the struggle for civil rights, the rise of the far-right; the Klan seems to have always embodied the dark side of the nation, with its gray areas and blind spots.