Question 5 • US History Studies Since 1877 - Semester 1 Pathways
The Ku Klux Klan was revived in 1915 after the release of the film The Birth of a Nation, which glorified the original Klan and helped encourage a new wave of membership. Plessy v. Ferguson had upheld segregation decades earlier, while no new civil rights legislation in 1915 prompted the revival.
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