Unnamed Members of Ku Klux Klan

White Supremacist organization founded after the Civil War in order to terrorize and subjugate African-Americans and, in time, other minorities, especially "Catholics and Jews" (333). Clarence Snopes joins the KKK "when it appeared in the county" (330), but campaigns against it soon afterward in his first election sometime around 1920, and according to the narrative "did indeed destroy the Ku Klux Klan in Yoknapatawpha" at that time (333). When Linda Snopes Kohl campaigns to improve conditions for local blacks in the early 1940s, however, "a crude cross soaked in gasoline" is burned in front of the house where she lives; the "organization which put it there" is not explicitly identified, but cross-burning was a Klan signature (252).