r the suppression of the organization. It suffered a setback in its national stronghold, Georgia, when that state revoked the Klan charter in 1947. With the death of its strongest postwar leader, the obstetrician Samuel Green, of Atlanta, Georgia, Klan unity broke down into numerous, independent, competing units, which often did not last long enough to be placed on the list of subversive organizations issued by the U.S. attorney general. After the U.S. Civil Rights act of 1964 the Klan experienced a marked increase in membership reaching and estimated 40,000 members. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was formed initially to stop segregation completely. When Klansmen heard this they weren’t very happy. Acknowledged Klan leaders ran for public office in the South, built up sizable numbers of votes. Klan members killed a lot of people in this time period. Many people believe the Klan had sanctioned all of the killings due to the press, but from what the Klan said and has stuck by the killers were members but took it upon themselves to murder all of those people. ...
