1Introduction
12Myth 11: The Klan Was an All-Male Bastion of Hooded Hate
2Myth 1: The Klan Rode Out from Day One to Terrorize Freed Slaves
13Myth 12: The Klan Faded Away with the Fall of Jim Crow
3Myth 2: The Klan Was a Bunch of Poor, Uneducated Hillbillies from the Backwoods South
14Myth 13: The Klan Was Always a Fire-and-Brimstone Army of Bible-Belching Zealots
4Myth 3: The Klan Invented Lynching as a Tool of Racial Terror
15Myth 14: The FBI Completely Destroyed the KKK in the 1960s
5Myth 4: The White Robe and Pointed Hood Are Klan Originals from the Beginning
16Myth 15: The Klan Lit Up Crosses from the Night of Its Birth
6Myth 5: The Klan Was Always 100 Percent White and Christian—Black and Jewish Members Were Unthinkable
17Myth 16: The Klan Was Always a Sideshow of Screaming Lunatics
7Myth 6: The 1920s Klan Was Just a Southern Sequel to Reconstruction Racism
18Myth 17: The Klan's Hate Was Always Black and White
8Myth 7: The Klan Has Always Been the Republican Party's Shadow Army
19Myth 18: Every White Southerner Rode with the Klan After Appomattox
9Myth 8: The Birth of a Nation Single-Handedly Revived the Ku Klux Klan
20Myth 19: Today's Klan Is Just the 1920s Version in Faded Sheets
10Myth 9: The Klan Racked Up a Near-Genocidal Body Count
21Myth 20: The Klan Has Always Been a Tiny Band of Basement-Dwelling Extremists
11Myth 10: The Klan Was a Tightly Knit, Top-Down Conspiracy
