The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, at one time the strongest anti-Semitic movement in the United States, has been dissolved, it was reported yesterday by the Atlanta Journal.
The Klan, which gained nation-wide notoriety beginning with 1920, flourished widely up until 1928, when legislative inquiries into its activities curbed it some what. From 1928 on it functioned in different parts of the country at various times, but was not active on a nation-wide scale. After the establishment of the Nazi German-American Bund the Klan cooperated with the Bundists in disseminating anti-Semitic propaganda, but it played a secondary role.
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