The Second Ku Klux Klan
The Second Klan burning a cross in Washington.
The Second KKK was established around 1915 and this time the Klan wasn't against just black people it was against immigrant and catholic. The Klan claimed over 4 million members throughout the country. The Klan helped pass one of if not the most controversial immigrant bills in US history. It expanded the Immigration Act of 1917 and the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and it persuaded government to enact the Immigration Act of 1924. The Asiatic Barred Zone was still in place and it dropped the 3% rule in 1921 to 2% and even then they used a weird system to make it even less than that, it was a combination of two horrible Acts and together they formed the Immigration Act of 1924. The Klan would use all the tactics they used on the black people decades ago on the immigrants, by hanging them and hunting them down like prey.