2-378-264 - Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images

Ku Klux Klan initiation ceremony near Brunswick, Maryland, USA, c1920s(?). The second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915. In the years immediately following the First World War its membership grew rapidly as racial tension escalated following large-scale migration of African Americans and Southern and East European immigrants to the cities of the North and the Midwest.