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Knights of the White Camellia - Definition and Overview

The Knights of the White Camelia was a white-supremacist group in the U.S. Southern states in the Reconstruction era and beyond. It was founded in 1867 in Louisiana and existed primarily in the Deep South. It was similar to and associated with the Ku Klux Klan. Its members were called Brothers and Knights, and its officials Commanders.

External links

Official web site (http://www.wckkkk.com/)

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

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