Yes, the Ku Klux Klan operated in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, during the 1950s. The Klan was known to have a presence in various parts of the United States during this time, including Pennsylvania, where it engaged in activities aimed at promoting its white supremacist ideology. Local reports and historical accounts indicate that the Klan held meetings and rallies in the area, reflecting broader patterns of racial and social tensions in mid-20th century America.
the Klan of the 1920s always carried the American flag. When there was a revival of klan interest in the 1950s because of civil rights, the Klan began to cary the Confederate flag.
Most Klan members were Protestants.
A second KKK, called the Klan of the 1920s, was actually formed in 1915 at Stone Mountain, Georgia.
It took 4 years for the klan to turn into violence.
The First Klan had about 550,000 members during its years of operation. More than 4 million people were members of the 2nd Klan, which ended in 1946. The 3rd Klan began in 1946 and has about 10,000 members according to estimates.
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There were essentially three different Klans. The first, formed right after the Civil War, persecuted freed African Americans and those who supported their rights. The second, commonly called the Klan of the 1920s, also persecuted African Americans and some immigrants but also moonshiners and bootleggers. The third Klan, that of the 1950s and 1960s, persecuted African Americans and those who promoted their civil rights.
A rough approximation is that on the order of 2000 people total (both black and white) were killed during the Klan's coercive and murderous activities. The research cited clearly indicates that the majority of these died at the hands of the Klan in its earliest years, from 1865 to 1875. According to the Tuskegee Institute, about 1500 of the 2000 total killed died in that time period. (Understandably, as the Klan could operate much more freely in the disorganization that prevailed in the South immediately after the Civil War, as compared to later decades.) The later renditions of the Klan (20th century) killed a much smaller number of people : a few hundred in the 1920's, a few dozen in the 1950's, and some single instances of murder into the 1970's and 1980's. As the number of murders imputed to the Klan dropped drastically, the likelihood that the perpetrators would be caught was also increased. With modern law enforcement, and the increased number of black police and public officials, the Klan could not operate with impunity. * The total number of 3446 lynchings of blacks and 1247 of whites includes many groups in addition to the Klan. There is no doubt that the Klan was involved in the eviction or coerced relocation of many hundreds of thousands of freed blacks, and that the number injured by their violent acts was in the tens of thousands.