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Man Wearing Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood, circa 1870
Unknown1865/1875
The Henry Ford
Dearborn, MI, United States
This is one of the earliest known images of members of the Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1866 as one of many Southern vigilante groups intent on maintaining "white supremacy." For a century after the Civil War, African Americans were free but not treated as equals. Some angry white citizens responded with violence.
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- Title: Man Wearing Ku Klux Klan Robe and Hood, circa 1870
- Creator: Unknown
- Date: 1865/1875
- Date Created: 1865/1875
- Subject Keywords: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), Hate groups, Race discrimination, White supremacy movements, Portraits, Tintypes (Prints), Photographs
- Type: Photographs
- Contributor: The Henry Ford
- Original Source: http://collections.thehenryford.org/Collection.aspx?objectKey=344888
- Object Name: Tintype (Print)
- Object ID: 2005.19.6
- Image ID: THF8597
- Credit: From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
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