The Ku Klux Klan and Freemasonry in 1920s America: fighting fraternities

The Second Ku Klux Klan's success in the 1920s remains one of the order's most enduring mysteries.

Emerging first as a brotherhood dedicated to paying tribute to the original Southern organisation of the Reconstruction period, the Second Invisible Empire developed into a mass movement with millions of members that influenced politics and culture throughout the early 1920s.

This study explores the nature of fraternities, especially the overlap between the Klan and Freemasonry.