Ku Klux Klan
American white supremacist terrorist hate group
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| 2019 | Southern Poverty Law Center reported the number of Klan groups in America had dropped from 130 to 51 between 2016 and 2019. |
| 2019 | German authorities conducted raids against a potentially dangerous group called National Socialist Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Deutschland. |
| February 14 2019 | The Democrat-Reporter published an editorial by Goodloe Sutton calling for the Klan to 'ride again', which led to widespread condemnation, including censure by the Alabama Press Association and removal from the University of Southern Mississippi's Mass Communication and Journalism Hall of Fame. |
| 2018 | Klan-clad far-right activists marched in front of a Northern Irish mosque. |
| August 28 2018 | Klansman Justin Adams was fined for littering after being detained by authorities for spreading Klan posters and propaganda in the urban area of Roxboro. |
| 2017 | Participated in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, alongside various white nationalist and extremist groups. |
| 2017 | University of Wisconsin-Madison commissioned study groups and reports following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville to understand and address the legacy of racist organizations. |
| July 2017 | Chris Barker was interviewed by Univision's Ilia Calderón, during which he used racial slurs and made threatening statements about 'burning her out' and made inflammatory comments about immigrants and the Holocaust. |
| July 8 2017 | Held a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia with 50 members, which was denounced by hundreds of counter-protesters. |
| April 7 2017 | A Superior Court jury found William Hagen guilty of assault with a deadly weapon and making criminal threats. |
| February 2017 | Distributed recruitment flyers around Grand Junction, Colorado, inviting people to join the chapter. |
| 2016 | Anti-Defamation League reported an estimate of just over 30 active Third Klan groups in America. |
| December 2016 | Glendon Scott Crawford was sentenced to 30 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for attempting to produce and use a radiological dispersal device, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and distributing information relating to weapons of mass destruction. |
| December 6 2016 | Christopher Eugene Barker (founder) and William Ernest Hagen (California Grand Dragon) were arrested for a stabbing incident at Barker's home in Yanceyville, North Carolina, which resulted in one klansman being wounded. |
| March 2 2016 | Chris Barker, the group's 'Imperial Wizard', organized a 'White lives matter' demonstration in Anaheim, California, which erupted in violence when KKK members attacked counter-protesters and a KKK member stabbed a counter-protester with a flagpole. |
| 2015 | KKK chapters nationwide grew from 72 to 190, according to SPLC report. |
| August 2015 | Glendon Scott Crawford was convicted by a federal jury for plotting to kill Muslims and President Barack Obama using a self-made radiation weapon. He was reported by members of two local synagogues after approaching them to fund and plan his attack. |
| July 2015 | Protested against the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina State House in Columbia, following the Charleston church shooting. The rally included members from multiple KKK chapters, Neo-Nazis, and Christian fundamentalists, with protesters waving Nazi flags and chanting racial slurs. |
| 2014 | Launched a recruiting campaign distributing flyers in predominantly white neighborhoods across six states: Texas, Louisiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Georgia. |
| 2012 | The Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was formed, establishing a new iteration of the Ku Klux Klan organization with the goal of 'restoring America to a White, Christian nation'. |
| 2012 | German media reported that two police officers who were members of the European White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan would be allowed to keep their jobs. |
| 2012 | The Ku Klux Klan attempted to infiltrate other political parties in Australia, such as Australia First. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Oxnard Klan Riot of 1978, Ku Klux Klan (honor society), Ku Klux Klan & Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.