Leaders of the Ku Klux Klan

Leaders of the Ku Klux Klan

A leader of the Ku Klux Klan is called an Imperial Wizard.

The First Ku Klux Klan Leader

Nathan Bedford Forrest [ [http://www.freeinfosociety.com/site.php?postnum=470 Biography of Nathan Bedford Forrest the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan] ] was the first Grand Wizard of the KKK (1867 - 1869).

Second Ku Klux Klan

*William Joseph Simmons [ [http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/KKK.asp?xpicked=4&item=18 History of the Ku Klux Klan] ] (1915-1929)

*Dr. Samuel Green [ [http://afroamhistory.about.com/cs/kukluxklankkk/a/kukluxklan.htm Samuel Green] ]

Other Ku Klux Klan Movements

*Walter Bouchard

*Edgar Ray Killen [ [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/21/AR2005062100176.html Killen Found Guilty Of Manslaughter] ]

*David E. Duke

*Samuel Bowers [ [http://www.cnn.com/US/9808/21/klan/ Samuel Bowers convicted of 1966 murders] ] [ [http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/price&bowers/Bowers.htm Samuel Bowers Bio] ]

*Johnny Lee Clary [ [http://www.johnnyleeclary.com/Life%20Summary.htm Johnny Lee Clary's Bio] ]

*Jeff Berry [ [http://www.tkb.org/KeyLeader.jsp?memID=109 Jeff Berry Profile from Terrorism Knowledge Base] ]

References

See also

*American Protective Association
*History of the United States (1865–1918)
*Jim Crow laws
*Knights of the Golden Circle
*Ku Klux Klan regalia and insignia
*Silent Brotherhood
*Terrorism
*Wide Awakes


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