![]() He then began to devote himself to writing about his political views, both in newsletters and later on the Internet. He mounted a minor challenge to President Bush in 1992.īy the late 1990s, Duke had abandoned his pretense of rejecting racism and antisemitism, and began to openly promote racist and neo-Nazi viewpoints. His campaigns were denounced by national and state Republican leaders, including President George H. He then ran unsuccessful but competitive campaigns for several more offices, including United States Senate in 1990 and Governor of Louisiana in 1991. He soon won his only elected office, a seat in the Louisiana House of Representatives. In December 1988, he became a Republican and claimed to have become a born-again Christian, while nominally renouncing antisemitism and racism. After failing to gain any traction within the Democratic Party, Duke left and successfully gained the presidential nomination of the minor Populist Party. ĭuke unsuccessfully stood as Democratic candidate for state legislature during the 1970s and 1980s, culminating in his campaign for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination. In 2013, the Anti-Defamation League described Duke as "perhaps America’s most well-known racist and anti-Semite". His politics and writings are largely devoted to promoting conspiracy theories about Jews, such as Holocaust denial and Jewish control of academia, the press, and the financial system. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the Republican Party. Members included State Governors and Senators, as well as judges, businessmen and members of the police.David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, and former Grand Wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Its influence extended deep into American society. What is certain however is that the Klan had enough power in the 1920s to hold marches through Washington, DC. There were riots between black and whites in the North and housing conditions were very poor.ĭue to the secretive nature of the Klan, it is difficult to know exactly how many men were members.Įstimates have ranged from 3 million to 8 million members in 1924, when the Klan was at its peak. They were separated into ghetto communities in Northern cities. Whites felt they were superior to black immigrants. Many poor white people joined the KKK in the hope that their way of life would be protected. ![]() This led to competition for housing and jobs. Many black Americans moved to northern cities, especially during World War One. ![]()
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