klansman

Noun

Meaning

a member of the Ku Klux Klan

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A full-scale scholarly history analyzes the cartoonː Guy W. Hubbs, Searching for Freedom after the Civil War: Klansman, Carpetbagger, Scalawag, and Freedman (2015). Source: Internet

A member may use the acronym AYAK (Are you a Klansman?) in conversation to surreptitiously identify himself to another potential member. Source: Internet

For Selma, of all places, to have a big monument to a Klansman is totally unacceptable." citation An online petition at Change.org asking the City Council to ban the monument collected more than 285,000 signatures by mid-September. Source: Internet

The bus was immediately set upon by a mob led by a local Klansman named William Chappell, its tires slashed and windows smashed. Source: Internet

Former Klansman Shane Johnson believes “the truth can keep people from joining” hate groups. Source: Internet

Investigators in the 1920s used KKK publicity, court cases, exposés by disgruntled Klansman, newspaper reports, and speculation to write stories about what the Klan was doing. Source: Internet

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