State Governments

KKK Marches on Washington at Peak of Institutional Influence

1925-08-08 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Between 25,000 and 40,000 Ku Klux Klan members march down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., in a massive demonstration of the organization’s political power at its peak. Marchers wear white robes but not masks, proudly displaying their faces in an assertion of mainstream respectability. …

Ku Klux Klan Hiram Evans D.C. Klan State Governments racism institutional-capture white-supremacy political-corruption

Pinkerton Detective Agency Operates as Private Corporate Army Against Unions

1892-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The Pinkerton National Detective Agency operates throughout the Gilded Age as a private corporate army deployed against labor organizing, providing armed guards, infiltration agents, and strikebreaking services to employers seeking to crush unions through surveillance, espionage, and violence. …

Pinkerton National Detective Agency Allan Pinkerton Corporate employers State governments Labor unions gilded-age labor-suppression private-security corporate-violence union-busting +1 more