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United States of America PhOtOs-Ku Klux Klan Rises Again-Stronger Than Ever

Under the Hood: Astonishing Glimpse into Secretive Rituals and Mundane Home Life of Ku Klux Klan Members in the 21st Century

  • Anthony Karen gained the trust of far-right group to capture their lives in unguarded moments
  • He also captured some of their most sacred rituals as well as their domestic day-to-day existence
  • One of the Klansmen he chronicled is an engineer on a nuclear submarine
By Daily Mail UK, 6 October 2013




American photojournalist Anthony Karen is a man used to exploring the margins of American culture. He has chronicled far-right extremists, the New Black Panthers and even members of the widely-reviled Westboro Baptist Church. Now the ex-Marine has created an astonishing visual record of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organisation that advocates racial purity and is known for its white robes with conical hoods. He gained the trust of KKK members and was able to capture them in candid, unguarded situations that give a unique insight into the world they inhabit.

The New York-based photographer said that despite their horrific beliefs they came across as normal people in their day-to-day lives. He recalled meeting one Klansman shortly after he started the project that worked as an engineer on a nuclear submarine.




White power wedding: 'Little Charlie' shows off her custom made Klan wedding veil as her fiancé watches on.
These photographs show the little-seen rituals and home lives of the far-right organisation




Assembly: Klansmen and women during a 'Klonkave' (secret meeting). The KKK is known for its distinctive white conical hoods


He said: 'The majority of the people I've come across are no different than somebody living next door. You'd only know they were in the Klan if they decided to share that with you, had a distinguishing emblem on a tee-shirt or a racially-themed tattoo.
'They live normal lives, some with stronger racial overtones than others. There is wealthy and poor, intelligent and unintelligent… just like anywhere else.'

For a secretive and suspicious group wary of outsiders, earning their trust was no easy task. He says he did it by being completely impartial.

Mr Karen, who served as a Marine in his 20s and later became a bodyguard, said: 'You need to give some of yourself in order to receive something back. I spend time with people, I listen to what they have to say and I treat each person as an individual. I don’t have to believe what they believe but whenever I’m in someone’s space, I feel I’m obliged to observe without judgment.
'Over the years, these organisations and the people I encounter have also seen how I work - I’m respectful of people’s privacy, I’m polite and I’m focused.
'Personality plays a big part as well. I’m far from rigid and I like to think that staying approachable is more comforting and reassuring to people.'
As well as photos of their costumes and rituals, the photographs show KKK members in their kitchens, sharing a joke and day-to-day family life.




Standard: A Klansmen and his wife during a flyer drive. The purpose of the drive was to bring attention to a proposition before a local court to remove a flag from a state park




An Imperial Wizard of a southern-based Ku Klux Klan realm takes aim with a pellet gun at a large ****roach (on the piece of paper just below the clock) while his wife and goddaughter try to avoid getting struck by a possible ricochet. Note the noose tattoo running down his back




Candidates wishing to join the Ku Klux Klan partake in a naturalisation ritual, where they become a citizen of the 'Invisible Empire'.

It is not unlike becoming a naturalised citizen of the United States, according to the late Imperial Wizard Dale Fox


Members of the group, originally formed by Confederate veterans in the aftermath of the American Civil war, have committed numerous racially-motivated murders and assaults over the past century.
They advocate the seperation of the races, claiming interbreeding between ethnicities goes against God's will (religion is a key part of their beliefs).
In the 1920s they reaches the peak of their power, with as many as six million members. Today they are estimated to number between 5-8,000.
One of the group's most famous crimes was the murder of three American civil rights' workers, James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, who were shot in June 1964 by members of the Mississippi White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, the Neshoba County's Sheriff Office and the Philadelphia Police Department located in Philadelphia, Mississippi.
The three had been attempting to register African Americans to vote. The FBI called its investigation 'Mississippi Burning' - which was later used as the title for a 1988 film loosely based on the case.




National director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Thomas Robb (centre) and his family




Members of a Louisiana-based Ku Klux Klan realm joke around at the home of one of their Imperial officers




The pictures show a side of the Klan members and their families that the public rarely sees


Among the others charged with conspiracy in 1967, seven were convicted. None served more than six years in prison.
The unassuming nature of the pictures has led to accusations that his work gives the Klan publicity, a claim he strongly refutes.
'If a person was finding him/her self wanting to join the Klan after viewing my images, one would logically come the conclusion that this is something they supported long before these images came along,' he said.
'I prefer to document the Klan at home as opposed to the typical imagery that most anyone can get during a public demonstration. Yes, I’m trying to show the viewers the way certain people who’ve adopted such beliefs live - they may drink soda, cook and put family photos on the wall just like the rest of us.
'I’ve witnessed just as much verbal hatred in conversations amongst non-Klan members. I’m not trivialising anything; I’m showing things exactly how I’ve observed them.
'The project is on the Ku Klux Klan, which alone should offer enough innuendo as to the back-story. My objective is to present a project that’s been covered a million times before, but in a non-typical and intimate light… no other rhyme or reason.




An Imperial Officer (right) from a mid-western based Ku Klux Klan realm at the home of his Imperial Wizard and wife (left),
shortly before departing for a Christmas party held for members at a local church




Dark hood: The son of an Imperial Wizard of a North Carolina-based Klan realm




Ms Ruth puts the finishing touches on a Klan robe for a 'Knighthawk' which is a security position in the Klan




Host: A Klansman during a unity gathering at his home. The unassuming nature of the pictures
has led to accusations that Mr Karen's work gives the Klan publicity, a claim he strongly refutes


'People have the option to turn the page and ignore things that disturb them, it doesn’t make it any less real. As far as myself, I’d rather be aware of the things around me.'
He first attended an infamous Klan 'cross burning' ceremony in 2005, buts says members find the term offensive.
He said: 'They prefer “cross lighting” as it “dispels darkness, [and] brings truth and freedom to the world”. It bears witness to the light of Christ, according to their beliefs.
'The cross lighting ceremony is held in sacred covenant to people in the Klan. This holds true for the robes that are worn as well.'




Fiery ritual: Several members of the Four Star White Knights during a family cookout
as they prepare for a cross lighting ceremony





Klansmen prepare torches by wrapping them in burlap for a cross lighting ceremony




Domestic life: Members of The Knights Party during a break at the annual congress


Surprisingly, given the Klan's reputation for violence, Mr. Karen says he has never encountered any hostility from members, although he admits to one situation where a small group of drunk racist-skinheads were 'getting on (his) last nerve’ during a Klan weekend gathering.
Mr Karen achieved an extraordinary closeness with Klan members. Did he ever feel too close, too friendly, to them?
'Whenever you’re granted access into a person’s intimate space, you’re establishing a relationship based on trust. In my opinion, trust is trust. That doesn’t suggest I become complacent with my situation to the point of exploitation, nor does it mean I’m selectively disregarding certain moments to depict something that is not.
'I do admit I try to offer a balanced perspective as to my experiences within marginalized organisations, such as the Ku Klux Klan for example, but to consciously distance myself will in effect (or could) create bias.'
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White Supremacy Group KKK has been Given Approval to Stage an Event at Historical Gettysburg Park Next Week


  • The event will be held at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania on October 5
  • Park officials say it is their right under the First Amendment
  • The group held another rally in early September

The Ku Klux Klan has been granted a permit to hold an event at Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania.
The park is a highly symbolic place due to the Battle of Gettysburg, which was fought from July 1 to 3, 1863, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War.

The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.
Park officials say the special-use permit was approved for a Maryland-based KKK group to exercise its First Amendment rights on October 5.

The afternoon event will be held on the lawn area north of General George Meade's Headquarters.





Freedom of expression: The Ku Klux Klan has been given permission to hold an event next week





KKK:




Officials say the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania has a responsibility to make that land
available for citizens to exercise their right to freedom of speech



Officials say the park has a responsibility to make that land available for citizens to exercise their right to freedom of speech, even if the views expressed are contrary to those of most Americans.

The group held a membership rally earlier this month at the Antietam National Battlefield near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where thousands of people died in a Civil War clash that set the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
About 30 people, some in white robes and others in the military-style clothing and swastika armbands of the National Socialist Movement of America, stood next to a farmhouse on the battlefield at the event on September 7.




Getting together: In early September the Ku Klux Klan held a rally at the Antietam National Battlefield,
near Sharpsburg, Maryland





A lone protester holds up a poster against the rally by members of the Confederate White Knights
at the Antietam National Battlefield




Onlookers watch the Ku Klux Klan during their rally at the Antietam National Battlefield


Some delivered speeches attacking immigrants, blacks and other minority groups.

About 200 federal, state and local officers watched to ensure peace and to act as a buffer between the Klan and about 30 counter-demonstrators.
Antietam carries powerful symbolism, said Gordon Young of the Ku Klux Klan.
'As the Klan, we are the ghosts of our Confederate brothers and sisters who died here,' Young said.
The protest was the third by extremist groups at national parks in the past three years.




Past and present: The KKK say they are the 'ghosts of our Confederate
brothers and sisters' who died at the Antietam National Battlefield




Worship: The extremist group says Antietam carries 'powerful symbolism'


Two years ago, the National Socialist Movement demonstrated at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, and the same group rallied last year at Colonial Park in Williamsburg, Virginia.

'The Supreme Court has ruled consistently that national parks in particular are places of freedom of expression,' said park superintendent John Howard.

Said Jeffrey Margolies, a counter-demonstrator from the Jewish motorcycle group Semites on Bikes: 'It's disgusting that they would come to sacred ground.'


Union and Confederate forces clashed on September 17, 1862, on a farmland about 40 miles outside Washington during Confederate General Robert E. Lee's first invasion of the North.

More than 3,600 men on both sides died that day, and more than 19,000 were wounded or went missing, according to the park service.
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