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In 1915, the second Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was started by William J. Simmons. By the 1920s, it had millions of members in the American South and the Midwest. The second KKK fought bootleggers, immigrants, blacks, Catholics, and Jews. It operated openly in both illegal and legal ways. Which statement is an example of an illegal activity by the KKK?

a. whipping and lynching people

b. being elected to political office

c. preaching racism in their churches

d. organizing a cross burning

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In 1915, the second Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was started by William J. Simmons. By the 1920s, it had millions of members in the American South and the Midwest. The second KKK fought bootleggers, immigrants, blacks, Catholics, and Jews. It operated openly in both illegal and legal ways. Which statement is an example of an illegal activity by the KKK?

   a.  whipping and lynching people
 
 b.  being elected to political office
 
  c. preaching racism in their churches
 
  d. organizing a cross burning