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An index of texts related to the Ku Klux Klan.
![Three men in white robes and hoods standing in front of a large burning cross.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9f/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_and_a_burning_cross%2C_Denver%2C_Colorado%2C_1921.jpg/220px-Ku_Klux_Klan_members_and_a_burning_cross%2C_Denver%2C_Colorado%2C_1921.jpg)
Unsorted works
[edit]- Prescript of the Ku Klux Klan, 1867
- Interview with Nathan Bedford Forrest, 1868
- Why the Ku Klux, 1914 by William Stewart Simkins
Criticism of the Klan
[edit]Encyclopedia articles
[edit]- "Ku Klux Klan," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Ku Klux Klan," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
Legal/government works
[edit]- Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
- Brandenburg v. Ohio, 1969
- Report to the President for the White House Conference On Hate Crimes, 1997
Fiction
[edit]Novels
[edit]- The Leopard's Spots (1902)
- The Clansman (1905)
- The Traitor (1907)
Film
[edit]- The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon — The plot of the second half glorified the Ku Klux Klan as saviors of the white race
Short stories
[edit]- "The Five Orange Pips", 1892 Sherlock Holmes story featuring the KKK