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Ku Klux Klan
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Gone with the Wind
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They are so upset"—Pitty dropped her voice mysteriously—"about the Ku Klux Klan.†
Chpt 4.33 *

Ku Klux Klan = white supremacist group in the United States
Do you have the Klan down in the County?†
Chpt 4.33

Klan = short for Ku Klux Klan - a white supremacist group in the United States
The very suspicion of seditious utterances against the government, suspected complicity in the Ku Klux Klan, or complaint by a negro that a white man had been uppity to him were enough to land a citizen in jail.†
Chpt 4.37

Ku Klux Klan = white supremacist group in the United States
It was the large number of outrages on women and the ever-present fear for the safety of their wives and daughters that drove Southern men to cold and trembling fury and caused the Ku Klux Klan to spring up overnight.†
Chpt 4.37
Let others go to jail for speaking their minds and get themselves hanged for being in the Ku Klux Klan.†
Chpt 4.38
A negro who had boasted of rape had actually been arrested, but before he could be brought to trial the jail had been raided by the Ku Klux Klan and he had been quietly hanged.†
Chpt 4.42
The Klan had acted to save the as yet unnamed victim from having to testify in open court.†
Chpt 4.42

Klan = short for Ku Klux Klan - a white supremacist group in the United States
The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.†
Chpt 4.42
Scarlett, lying exhausted in bed, feebly and silently thanked God that Ashley had too much sense to belong to the Klan and Frank was too old and poor spirited.†
Chpt 4.42
Why didn't the crack-brained young fools in the Klan leave bad enough alone and not stir up the Yankees like this?†
Chpt 4.42
Scarlett, perhaps we should have told you but—but—you had been through so much this afternoon that we—that Frank didn't think—and you were always so outspoken against the Klan—†
Chpt 4.45
"The Klan—" At first, Scarlett spoke the word as if she had never heard it before and had no comprehension of its meaning and then: "The Klan!" she almost screamed it.†
Chpt 4.45
"The Klan—" At first, Scarlett spoke the word as if she had never heard it before and had no comprehension of its meaning and then: "The Klan!" she almost screamed it.†
Chpt 4.45
Ashley isn't in the Klan!†
Chpt 4.45
"Of course, Mr. Kennedy is in the Klan and Ashley, too, and all the men we know," cried India.†
Chpt 4.45
He had promised her he would have nothing to do with the Klan.†
Chpt 4.45
And who would have thought that spiritless old Frank would get himself mixed up in the hot-headed doings of the Klan?†
Chpt 4.45
But I never thought either of them was foolish enough to join the Klan!†
Chpt 4.45
He and Mr. Elsing are under arrest for complicity in a Klan raid at Shantytown tonight.†
Chpt 4.45
Few families in the north end of town slept that night for the news of the disaster to the Klan, and Rhett's stratagem spread swiftly on silent feet as the shadowy form of India Wilkes slipped through back yards, whispered urgently through kitchen doors and slipped away into the windy darkness.†
Chpt 4.46
Not only those involved in the night's raid but every member of the Klan was ready for flight and in almost every stable along Peachtree Street, horses stood saddled in the darkness, pistols in holsters and food in saddlebags.†
Chpt 4.46
Now she missed him acutely and repeated over and over as she dabbed at her red swollen eyes: "If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan!†
Chpt 4.47
I didn't know he was in the Klan.†
Chpt 4.47
Since the Klan affair Rhett and Scarlett had been, with the exception of the Yankees and Carpetbaggers, the town's most unpopular citizens.†
Chpt 4.47
For months they had writhed under Yankee laughter and scorn, and the ladies felt and said that if Rhett really had the good of the Klan at heart he would have managed the affair in a more seemly fashion.†
Chpt 4.47
The Yankees might easily have thought him a member of the Klan if the whole truth had come out!†
Chpt 5.49
The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter.†
Chpt 5.49
I'll admit and brag about my services to the Confederacy and, if worst comes to worst, I'll join their damned Klan—though a merciful God could hardly lay so heavy a penance on my shoulders as that.†
Chpt 5.52
This group was always linked in her mind with Frank's death, and the late hours Rhett kept these days reminded her still more of the times preceding the Klan foray when Frank lost his life.†
Chpt 5.58
She remembered with dread Rhett's remark that he would even join their damned Klan to be respectable, though he hoped God would not lay so heavy a penance on his shoulders.†
Chpt 5.58
I've got to know if you—if it's the Klan—is that why you stay out so late?†
Chpt 5.58
There is no Klan in Atlanta now.†
Chpt 5.58
You've been listening to the Klan outrage stories of your Scallawag and Carpetbagger friends.†
Chpt 5.58
No Klan?†
Chpt 5.58
No, there is no Klan now.†
Chpt 5.58
To keep in power he's been desperately manufacturing Klan outrage stories where none exist, telling of loyal Republicans being hung up by the thumbs and honest darkies lynched for rape.†
Chpt 5.58
Thank you for your apprehensions, but there hasn't been an active Klan since shortly after I stopped being a Scallawag and became an humble Democrat.†
Chpt 5.58
Most of what he said about Governor Bullock went in one ear and out the other for her mind was mainly occupied with relief that there was no Klan any longer.†
Chpt 5.58
"Rhett," she asked suddenly, "did you have anything to do with the breaking up of the Klan?"†
Chpt 5.58
Neither Ashley nor I cared much for each other as bedfellows but— Ashley never believed in the Klan because he's against violence of any sort.†
Chpt 5.58

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(1) (Ku Klux Klan)
racist, violent white supremacist groups in the United States, first formed after the Civil War to oppose Black freedom and equal rights

The original Klan in the late 1800s used terror, including threats, beatings, and lynchings, to keep formerly enslaved African Americans from voting or exercising their rights. Later versions of the Klan revived in the 1900s and still exist today as small white supremacist groups known for white-hooded robes, marches, and occasional acts of violence and intimidation.
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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