Cost Quote by Thurgood Marshall

Do people in the Ku Klux Klan who die and come back as ghosts have to wear two sheets when attending the rally?

— Dana Gould

I am a former Kleagle [recruiter] of the Ku Klux Klan in Raleigh County. The Klan is needed today as never before and I…

— Robert Byrd

“To discourage slaves from meeting or escaping, slave owners told tales of gruesome research done on black bodies, then covered themselves in white sheets…

— Rebecca Skloot

“He had been humiliated and treated like the white trash he was. Under the bedsheet that hides the identity of every Ku Klux Klansman…

— James Lee Burke

“BY THE HUNDREDS, blacks cleared out of Groveland on the backs of citrus trucks. Others took blankets, food, and water and fled with their…

— Gilbert King

Even if the KKK isn't the outsized presence it once was in this country, many of its principles and ideas are alive and well.

— W. Kamau Bell

“Twas the night before Christmas, at a town in the South, A band of ex-Confederates gathered, down in the mouth; That the black man…

— Michael Farquhar

“By 1872, under Grant’s leadership, the Ku Klux Klan had been smashed in the South. (Its later twentieth-century incarnation had no connection to the…

— Ron Chernow

“At the time i didn't realize why there was so much Klan activity, but later I learned that it was because African-American soldiers werre…

— Rosa Parks

“No matter how much Steve and I preached about staying legal, most of these men never believed us, and some would grin or wink…

— Frazier Glenn Miller

I am a former Kleagie of the Klu Klux Klan in Raleigh County and adjoining counties of the state, having been appainted to this…

— Robert Byrd

Classified ads of the Ku Klux Klan: Tired of all the games? Do you like racial purity, horses and dressing up like a ghost?

— Dana Gould