3 Facts About Ku Klux Klan

1. Since the late 1970s, the Ku Klux Klan has increasingly focused its ire on this previously ignored population.

2. The second Ku Klux Klan expanded with new chapters in cities in the Midwest and West, and reached both Republicans and Democrats, as well as men without a party affiliation.

3. The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, with fifteen "charter members".