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Most of us who grow up in the United States learn a reassuring narrative of ever-expanding tolerance. The Founding Fathers may have all been men, but in their wisdom they created a constitution that would later allow women to gain the vote. And now the legal definition of marriage has broadened to include gays and lesbians. We are, it appears, an increasingly inclusive nation. But a parallel, much darker river runs through American history.
The Know Nothing Party of the s viciously attacked Catholics and immigrants. In the s, 16 million Americans regularly listened to the anti-Semitic radio rants of Father Charles E. The most notorious of all the currents in this dark river has been the Ku Klux Klan.
It flourished first in the South after the Civil War, lynching and terrorizing African-Americans who tried to vote, and then gradually disbanded in the early s under pressure from the federal government. After a long spell of quiescence, it reemerged into national prominence in the s, reaching an all-time peak membership in —a year, incidentally, that saw the dedication of various Confederate memorials, including the Robert E. After another eclipse, the Klan roared back to life a third time in protest against the civil rights movement of the s.
Among other acts of violence, Klansmen took part in the murder of three voter registration workers near Philadelphia, Mississippi, in the summer of —James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. All along, of course, even while sticking to rhetoric of tolerance and inclusion, politicians have made winks and nods toward that dark river of which the Klan is a part.
Richard Nixon had his Southern Strategy. George H. Bush used the notorious Willie Horton campaign commercial. Only when pressed by a reporter did Donald Trump in early reluctantly disavow the support of Klan leader David Duke. I disavow, O. Once again, it seems, the Klan is elbowing its way back into American public life.