Ku Klux Klansman

noun

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Back in 1991, the Louisiana governor’s race came down to Ku Klux Klansman David Duke and convicted criminal Edwin Edwards. Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 30 June 2024 In 2002, a jury in Birmingham, Alabama, convicted former Ku Klux Klansman Bobby Cherry on four counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of four Black girls in a church bombing in 1963. Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 22 May 2024 The email included an image of a Ku Klux Klansman giving a Nazi salute. Emmanuel Felton, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2022 In 1991, Louisiana faced a troubling prospect: neo-Nazi and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke had made it to the runoff in the race for governor. Staff Report, NOLA.com, 17 Aug. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1868, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of Ku Klux Klansman was in 1868

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“Ku Klux Klansman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Ku%20Klux%20Klansman. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.

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