... . All non-Protestants, aliens,liberals,trade unionists,abd striking workers were denouned and subversives. After 1921, it experienced a rapid growth of membership and became politically influential throughout the nation. One estimate of its membership, made in 1924, when the Klan was at the peak of its strength, was as high as 3 million. In that year a resolution denouncing the klan, introduced at the national ... convention of the Democratic party, precipitated a bitter contraversy and was defeated. In 1944 it dibanded formally when it was unable to pay back axes wed to the federal gove...

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