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National Humanities Center: America in Class: America in the 1920s: Divisions: Ku Klux Klan

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The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards - historical documents, literary texts, and works of art - thematically organized with notes and discussion questions. Topics discussed in this unit include the following: Becoming Modern: America in the 1920s: Ku Klux Klan. Spreading far beyond its roots in the Reconstruction South, the resurgent Klan of the 1920s was a short-lived but potent phenomenon. Presented here are a collection of commentaries, political cartoons, a newsreel of a Klan parade, and a recording of Will Rogers.

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