BlackEagle/BlackEagle Logistics & Procurement Branch, Data Support Section
Results of Criminal Organizations Database Search: Ku Klux Klan
End Search
Ku Klux Klan #CR0000820
(Also... Some alternate names are aliases, other are names for specific subgroups or
cells).
14 Words
Alabama Empire Knights of the KKK (AEK-KKK)
American Klan Association
American Renaissance
California's Invincible Empire
California Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (CA.K-KKK)
Carolina (Christian) Knights of the KKK (CK-KKK; NC-based)
Confederation of Independent Orders
Confederate Knights of the KKK
Confederate National Congress (CNC)
Federated Knights of the KKK in South and North Carolina
Federation of Klans, Knights of the KKK (FKK-KKK)
Georgia's New Order of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Great White North
Illinois Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IK-KKK)
Imperial Clans of America
Independent Northern and Southern Klans (Indiana-based)
Indiana Realm of the KKK
International Keystone Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KK-KKK)
Invisible Empire
Invisible Empire Knights
Invincible Empire, Knights of the White Rose (California-based)
Iowa's White Knights of the KKK
Justice Knights of the KKK (TN-based)
Keystone Knights of the KKK (KK-KKK)
Klan Youth Corps (KKK's youth group for kids 18 & under)
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (K-KKK)
Knights of the White Camellia (TX-based)
Knights of the White Rose
Lake County Triple K Club
Michigan Knights of the KKK (MK-KKK)
Michigan Realm of the Knights of the KKK (MRK-KKK)
Missouri New Order KKK
National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP)
National Knights
National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NK-KKK)
Nevada KKK
New Empire KKK (NC-based)
New Jersey's White Knights of the KKK
New Order Knights
New Order Party, Knights of the KKK (NOP, K-KKK; Missouri-based)
North Carolina's White Knights of Liberty
Northwest United Klan (Connecticut)
Ohio's Independent Invisible Knights
Ohio Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (OH.K-KKK)
Order of the Fiery Cross, K-KKK (Lake County, IL)
Pennsylvania's White Knights of the KKK
Southern White Knights (SWK; GA-based)
Stormfront
Realm of Florida
Tennessee's United Empire Knights of the KKK
Texas Emergency Reserve (military arm of the K-KKK in Texas)
United Klans of America (UKA)
White Heritage Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (California-based)
White Knights
White Knights of the KKK (WK-KKK; MO-based)
White Patriots Party (WPP)
Source: FBI, DEA, BATF, Local Law Enforcement
Type: Hate-based terrorist organization
Scope:
Frequent attacks against racially motivated targets throughout North America and many
parts of Europe. The KKK is truly an international organization with independent cells
throughout the world.
Affiliations:
Known affiliations with the Aryan World [#CR0001695], the Aryan National Church
[#CR0001899] and the Aryan Soldiers of the New Millennium [#CR0002716].
Believed to be linked with The Order [#CR0003475] and the Afrikaner Resistance
Front [#CR0002198] [DEA]. May have also trained members of the Bruder Schweigen
[#CR0002198] [FBI], and provided weapons or equipment to the European Christian
Resistance Front [#CR0003822] [BATF].
Personnel: 5000 estimated in North America
Operating Since:
1864/1921
Structure:
The group follows a bureaucratic organization, made-up of many small, relatively
independent groups thought to number around 97. Each group is distinct from the
others, they rarely cooperate with one another, and recognize no central authority. Some
of these groups are very prone to violence, whereas others operate within the law. The
ideology of the various factions is virtually indistinguishable, the language of rituals and
tests of printed materials are often identical. The differences revolve around issues of
personality, finances, tactics, and power.
Leaders:
Bill Albers [#LL5148752] (American Klan Association), J.D. Alder [#LL5785468]
(Advisor to the Realm of Florida), Kim Badynski [#LL5481354] (IK-KKK leader), John B.
Baumgardner [#LL5648212] (Realm of Florida), Alan Beshella [#LL5684231] (KKK
Britain), James Betts [#LL6545231] (NOP), Barry Black [#LL6548243] (KK-KKK -
Stormfront), James Blair [#LL5164851] (Alabama Invisible Empire), Terry Boyce
[#LL5984613] (Confederate Knights-KKK), Darlene Carver [#LL6513486] (Secretary-
Georgia K-KKK), Harold Covington [#LL5482321] (founded CNC), Michael Cuffley
[#LL6487921] (Missouri K-KKK), Robert Dyslin [#LL6413581] (Chicago Liberty Net, IL),
Mike Eddington [#LL5898549] (Knights of the White Camellia of the KKK-Florida),
James W. Farrands [#LL5486286] (Invisible Empire, Connecticut), Darrell Flinn
[#LL6543215] (Knights of the White Kamellia in AL and LA), C. Edward Foster
[#LL5574612] (Pennsylvania), Virgil L Griffin [#LL5421851] (North Carolina), David
Halland [#LL5715462] (SWK leader), Bennie Jack Hays [#LL6005169] (UKA
lieutenant), David W. Holland [#LL6513242] (SWK), Charles Howarth [#LL6624862]
(Colorado UKA leader), Horace King [#LL6254437] (SC, Christian Knights KKK - IE)
Tony La Ricci [#LL6542382] (Maryland K-KKK), Charles Lee [#LL5468532] (KWC
leader), Van Loman [#LL5452653] (Ohio White Knights), Stanley McCollum
[#LL5325423] (K-KKK leader), Ed Novak [#LL5865432] (IK-KKK), Glenn Miller
[#LL5648652] (CK-KKK), Stephen Miller [#LL5789253] (WPP cofounder), David
Neumann [#LL5125754] (MRK-KKK), Rachel Pendergraft [#LL6015432] (Grand
Council), George Pepper [#LL5898756] (California K-KKK leader), Wayne Pierce
[#LL5488652] (Invisible Empire Louisiana), Thomas Robb [#LL5548623] (K-KKK), Sam
Royer [#LL5321876] (Maryland Invisible Empire), Robert Schloneger [#LL5465865]
(founder, Order of the Fiery Cross), Bob Shelton [#LL5135722] (UKA leader), Basil
"Red" Sitzes [#LL5005432] (Southern Illinois KKK leader), Shawn Slater [#LL5987623]
(Colorado K-KKK leader), Steven Swain [#LL6843253] (Missouri K-KKK), Tom Turner
[#LL5978623] (Florida WK-KKK), James Venable [#LL6752185] (NK-KKK leader), Ray
Wiley [#LL6138462] (Invisible Empire, Texas).
Legitimate Connections:
The Ku Klux Klan is funded primarily from membership dues, support from wealthy
families and its association with a number of political or corporate sponsors. Additional
funding from wealthy members of the various independent cells. [FBI]
Resources:
Access to modern military weapons, explosives and training. Moderate intelligence and
excellent funding.
Suspected Criminal Activity:
Complete numbers unknown throughout their more than one hundred year existence.
Activities include murder, arson, armed robbery, and assaults among their more violent
actions. In recent years the Klanwatch Program began a crackdown on the KKK
throughout the US, two such examples are given. The Texas Emergency Reserve
(military arm of the K-KKK in Texas; established training camps at five rural sites to drill
with weapons and practice ambush and demolition tactics; lawsuit by the Southern
Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Program ordered the camps closed in 1982 when they
were found to be in violation of a Texas law over 100 years old which bans "military
companies" which privately create a military organization having a "command structure,
training and discipline so as to function as a combat or combat support unit" other than
those authorized by the governor; SPLC claims over 2,500 were trained by the group).
The focus on military training with weapons and explosives is suspected in connection
with a machine-gunning of a gay bookstore that left two dead; using a North Carolina
law, the Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch Project forced the group's leadership
to sign a court order prohibiting paramilitary activity; after the group continued to train,
the leaders were convicted of criminal contempt, and after appealing all the way to the
Supreme Court, were jailed; SPLC claims over 1,000 were trained by the group).
Another more graphic instance of the greater terrorist inclinations of younger Klan
groups is shown by the role of Frazier Glenn Miller, former neo-Nazi and leader of the
Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, in instigating the 3 November 1979 massacre of
five leftist anti-Klan demonstrators in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Additional Commentary:
The historic Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist organization founded in 1865 by
Confederate veterans of the Civil War. The name has continued to be used by a number
of groups who adhere to the twin beliefs of the racial superiority of the white race and the
need to safeguard that primacy by protecting its purity against desegregation,
integration, and miscegenation. The distinguishing marks of the Klan are the burning
cross and the hooded and white-sheeted garments of its members. Its typical tactics
were night-time raids in full regalia against blacks and others, in which they would beat,
tar and feather, or lynch their victims.
For most of its history the Klan and its successor groups acted largely as a repressive
group, seeking to counter the power of northerners in the south and to keep blacks
socially and politically subordinate. Therefore the federal banning of the Klan in 1871
made little difference since many of the Klansmen's limited aims were achieved through
the electoral laws passed by post-Reconstruction southern legislatures that effectively
deprived their black citizens of civil rights. The latter-day Klan groups, however, have
developed beyond having limited aims of repression to becoming right-wing
revolutionary groups willing to undertake more ambitious terrorist activities, including
forming alliances with neo-Nazi groups.
The original Ku Klux Klan targeted blacks and northern agents of Reconstruction. The
revived Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1920 expanded its list of enemies in 1920 to
include Roman Catholics, Jews, and, later in the 1930s, Communists as well. The Klan
dwindled during the Depression and afterward until the Supreme Court decision in
Brown v. Topeka Board of Education ordering desegregation of public schools in 1954.
Since then there has been a rise in Klan memberships and activities proportionate to the
advances in the Civil Rights movement. The revival of the Klan peaked in 1981 when the
various Klan organizations together possessed about 11,500 members. The use of civil
lawsuits by relatives of Klan victims greatly damaged some of these organizations and
reduced their freedom of action.
Three major Klan organizations have accounted for most Klan activities in recent years:
The United Klans of America (UKA), formerly headquartered in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
was the old guard of the Klan, being the most traditional, the oldest and the least active.
While it once boasted the largest membership of the three Klan factions, UKA suffered a
great reverse when Mrs. Beulah Donald, the mother of a UKA lynching victim,
successfully sued UKA for $7 million in civil damages. The Invisible Empire (IE) was
established in 1975 as a breakaway group from the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which
struck many Klansmen as being too overtly neo-Nazi. IE membership was open to white
Roman Catholics. This organization suffered loss of membership when the founder of
the IE, William Wilkinson, was exposed as an FBI informant. IE had 1,500 to 2,000
members nationwide when it was forced to file for reorganization under federal
bankruptcy laws. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (K-KKK), named after the revived
Klan of 1915, was established in 1975 by former neo-Nazi David Duke. This Klan group
is the most recent and made up largely of people born after the Korean War. This
organization has also proved itself most adept at using media relations and mass
marketing techniques to sell its message and recruit members. Duke handed leadership
of the K-KKK to Don Black in 1980. The more revolutionary nature of the younger Klan
groups is illustrated by Don Black's conspiracy, thwarted in April 1981, to carry out a
coup d'Útat on the Caribbean island of Dominica, which he had planned to turn into a
Klan safehaven. Following Black's arrest and conviction, the K-KKK broke into two
factions. Nonetheless this group has shown great adaptability, vitality, and ability to
recruit new younger members.
Besides these three groups there are many splinter groups and independent Klan
organizations. In the latest phase of the third revival of the Klan (i.e., since 1954) the
newer Klan groups have identified themselves closely with the Identity Christian
movement and shown less hesitation in identifying themselves with neo-Nazi groups.
These Klans have established paramilitary training camps throughout the country and
certain of them have affiliated themselves with the Aryan World [#CR0001695].
Attempts to curtail Klan activities through criminal and civil lawsuits continue with a
mixed record of success. Miller and members of his White Patriot Party were arrested in
1986 for conspiracy to murder Morris Dees, the anti-Klan activist lawyer who had
encouraged Mrs. Beulah Donald to sue the UKA in 1987. Miller's trial revealed also his
acceptance of $200,000 of stolen funds from The Order [#CR0003475] terrorists. An
attempt, however, to convict Louis Beam [#LL5462857] and other white supremacists
associated with the Aryan World and Klan groups on charges of sedition and violations
of civil rights laws ended in acquittal of those defendants by the Federal District Court in
Ft. Smith, Arkansas, in April 1988.
USE BACK BUTTON TO
RETURN TO MY TERRORIST PAGES