The Ku Klux Klan was a powerful social and political force in the United States in the 1920s, and probably reached the zenith of its power and influence with a large parade it held in Washington, D.C., in August 1925. Mike describes the parade and related events in this excerpt from Episode 102 ("America First — Part 2") of the United States of Amnesia podcast series "America First," which traces the evolution of that phrase and the movement that embodied it from the 1880s through the outbreak of World War II.
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