Tornado Alley (PROG)

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For now. Can you see (if accurately a part of the original quote) what could be seen as a revealing psychological slip in here?

"The IKA subscribes to a variety of grand conspiracy theories concerning Jewish control of the establishment, especially the American media and government. The IKA says that Jews are directing America's foreign relations to help Israel. Their beliefs derive from members' adherence to Christian Identity, a particularly radical religion that vilifies Jews and non-whites. "WE BELIEVE the White, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic and kindred people to be God's true, literal Children of Israel," the IKA writes. "Only this race fulfills every detail of Biblical Prophecy and World History concerning Israel and continues in these latter days to be heirs and possessors of the Covenants, Prophecies, Promises and Blessings YHVH God mad to Israel. … This chosen seedline making up the 'Christian Nations' (Gen. 35:11; Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26) of earth stands far superior to all other peoples in their call as God's servant race (Isa. 41:8, 44:21; Luke 1:54)." The creed can be generously deemed a false interpretation, as the cited Bible passages make absolutely no mention of white racial superiority. Through similar "proof," the IKA lays claim to being the "chosen people" of the Bible, a key tenet of Christian Identity theology. "History, archaeology, and the Bible now prove that ancient Anglo-Saxon-Celtic-Scythian people are all Caucasian descendants of the House of Israel," the IKA says."

That's an excerpt from your 2nd link .. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/imperial-klans-of-america

Hint: They are "mad".

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Some earlier clan history.

The Ku Klux Klan:
Legacy of Hate

Emergence of the UKA

The Ku Klux Klan and Resistance to School Desegregation

On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its historic decision on school desegregation -- Brown v. Board of Education. The decision triggered a wave of resistance to school desegregation throughout the South that ultimately led to a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.In its initial stages, the resistance was headed by the "White Citizens Councils:" The Councils were largely composed of respectable citizens in local power structures throughout the South. Their main weapon was economic pressure directed against local individuals and organizations perceived as supporters of desegregation or insufficiently vocal in opposing it.

The Councils achieved considerable power and influence in the second half of the 1950s, generating an array of publications and spawning affiliated organizations that lasted well into the 1960s. But by the end of the decade their resistance to court ordered desegregation had become a losing battle.

Paralleling the efforts of the Councils were new Klan leaders with new campaigns. The Klan had no use for the Councils' less militant methods, and sought to mobilize like-minded believers into a resurgent Ku Klux Klan.

By mid-1956, a marked rise in Klan activity was well underway – new Klan groups were drawing strength from the ferment in the South. They gained members from extremist elements among the White Citizens Councils themselves. These organizing efforts succeeded in mobilizing former Klansmen who had been inactive for years.

The strongest of the new groups consisted of klaverns linked under the banner of the U.S. Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. (generally referred to as the "U.S. Klans"). This group was subsequently chartered and incorporated in the State of Georgia. The leader of the new group was Eldon Lee Edwards, a paint sprayer employed in an Atlanta auto factory. He had quietly begun organizing in 1953, had stepped up his activities in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision, and had incorporated his new organization on October 24, 1955.

By September 29, 1956, Edwards was able to stage one of the largest Klan rallies in years, drawing a crowd of approximately 3,000 to Stone Mountain, Georgia, the site from which the Second Klan had been launched in 1915. The crowd came in more than 1,000 cars painted with KKK emblems and bearing license plates from seven states – Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, Florida, and Louisiana.

At its peak in the late 1950s, Edwards' U.S. Klans had units in nine Southern states. However, the group was beset by internal feuding and challenges to the Edwards leadership. In addition, more than a score of smaller Klans emerged to compete with the Edwards organization.

Although the U.S. Klans remained the strongest of the Klan groups in the South during the second half of the 1950s, Edwards was never able to gain a dominant position, nor to unify the competing and fragmented Klan organizations.

The New Klan Resurgence and Violence

In the early 1960s, the Klans functioned as a clandestine movement that spearheaded the resistance to a national trend toward equality for all Americans. Like their predecessors, the `60s Klans employed terrorism and a form of guerrilla race warfare to carry out their purposes. The Klans and their allies were responsible for a major portion of the assaults, killings, bombings, floggings, and other acts of racial intimidation that swept the South in the first years of the 1960s. The Klans provided the organizational framework and the emotional stimulus necessary to incite members and non­members alike to violence and terror.

The year 1960 was marked by a sharp increase in Klan activities and by the consolidation of some of the previously splintered groups in seven states. The Klan resurgence was spurred by the historic sit-­in movement launched at Greensboro, North Carolina on February 2, 1960, by young Black civil rights activists. A few weeks later, on the weekend of February 27-28, 1960, representatives of splintered Klan groups from seven Southern states met at the Henry Grady Hotel in Atlanta and formed a "National Klan Committee" to coordinate their activities. The Klans represented there had long been opposed to Edwards' U.S. Klans; in fact, this opposition was the chief bond among them. The loose confederation of splinter Klans that emerged came to be known as the "National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan."

The National Knights made a show of strength on March 26, 1960, by a coordinated series of cross burnings. Newspapers in the South reported that more than 1,000 fiery crosses were seen that day throughout Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and other states.

Klan Strength Increases in the 1960s

By the end of 1960, Klan strength had increased noticeably. Total Klan membership was estimated at anywhere from 35,000 to 50,000. Edwards' U.S. Klans, dominant for the previous six years, remained the strongest and most cohesive of the increasingly consolidated Klan movements, with an estimated 15,000 to 23,000 members.

The loose confederation of splinter Klans used the banner of the National Knights, under which each unit retained its autonomy. The central leadership operated on a rotating basis heading an estimated membership somewhat less than that of the U.S. Klans – possibly 10,000 to 15,000.

There were also a number of local groups in various parts of the South that were not affiliated with either the U.S. Klans or the National Knights. Most important of these was the Alabama Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., headed by Robert Shelton, who had been a leader of the Edwards Klan in Alabama until he was ousted by Edwards in the spring of 1960. By the end of 1960, Shelton had made rapid progress in absorbing local Klan klaverns, including many formerly affiliated with the U.S. Klans, and consolidating them into the Alabama Knights. The gains made by Shelton were further hastened by Edwards' death in August, 1960. Edwards was succeeded as Imperial Wizard of the U.S. Klans by Georgia Grand Dragon Robert L. "Wild Bill" Davidson, who declared at a Klan rally in November, 1960, that Klansmen would use buckshot if necessary to fight integration.

Davidson, however, was unable to control the internal feuding and battling that had followed Edwards' death. He and his successor as Georgia Grand Dragon, Calvin F Craig, resigned from the U.S. Klans and almost immediately formed a new Klan organization chartered by the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, under the name of the "Invisible Empire, United Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of America, Inc." The new group came to be known as the United Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc. (UKA).

Robert Shelton Becomes a Dominant Figure in the Klan

Membership in the new UKA was immediately bolstered by a mass defection from the U.S. Klans within the state of Georgia. Whole klaverns around the state simply changed their designation from U.S. Klans to UKA. Davidson quit as Imperial Wizard in the spring of 1961; a few months later, at a meeting in Indian Springs, Georgia, on July 8, 1961, the UKA united with Shelton's Alabama Knights. Shelton emerged as the new Imperial Wizard of the UKA, with Calvin Craig as UKA Grand Dragon for Georgia.

From that point on, Shelton’s UKA became the dominant group in the KKK resurgence of the 1960s. With headquarters in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, it had members and supporters in nine states by the middle of 1965. Estimates at the time indicated that the UKA could probably count on active membership and sympathetic support from 26,000 to 33,000 throughout the South. That support included Klans directly affiliated with the UKA and some semiautonomous groupings in Alabama, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, and Virginia.

Next: Decline of the United Klans of America
http://archive.adl.org/issue_combating_hate/uka/decline.html

http://archive.adl.org/issue_combating_hate/uka/rise.html