Category: Klan History

• The "Ku Klux Klan" Masonic Schism

  This theory claimed that the revived Ku Klux Klan of 1915 was not simply a nativist, white supremacist, and Protestant mass movement, but a hidden branch or schismatic form of Masonry—sometimes described polemically as a “Black Masonry” or counterfeit lodge. The claim drew on the Klan’s fraternal rituals, secrecy, graded initiations, regalia, and heavy use of lodge-like culture. In rumor form, the new Klan was imagined as an occult or rival Masonic order operating beneath its public political identity.