IntroductionThe Ku Klux Klan had interesting and diverse tactics for recruitment, mobilization, and retention techniques. The most important period for the Ku Klux Klan was in the 1920s, when they adopted different tactics and strategies than today. They had a different focus as many people joined a group that used a lot of violence and fanaticism, where once the media showed these images and they were harmful, now they help play a role in transforming their image as well as their recruitment techniques and mobilization expand to a broader level. more general public. As society is ever changing they have now been forced to change their tactics as openly hating the groups is not morally right and the media showcasing the violence of the Ku Klux Klan in the past has led to these horrific images and what much part of the group considered unacceptable. They tried to change their image from a racist group to a group that supports white superiority. Over time they had to modify their various recruitment and mobilization strategies due to the changes that occurred in society. This article will argue that since the 1920s there have been many changes in the strategies of the Ku Klux Klan in its recruitment, mobilization, and retention tactics as its goals and ideals were forced to change along with society. Methods This article is a content analysis of secondary resources that will review and explain information that others have studied and found on the topic. Discussion and AnalysisThe Ku Klux Klan originally began as a white supremacist group in the Southern United States. Many states like California, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, A...... middle of paper ......Ku Klux Klan: Organization & Principles, 153.McVeigh, R. (1999). Structural incentives for conservative mobilization: Devaluation of power and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1925. Social Forces, 77(4), 1461-1496. Rhomberg, C. (1998). White Nativism and Urban Politics: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s in Oakland, California. Journal of American Ethnic History, 17(2), 39.Richard, M. (2010). “Why aren't you a Klansman?” Anglo-Canadian support for the Ku Klux Klan movement in 1920s New England. American Review Of Canadian Studies, 40(4), 508-516. doi:10.1080/02722011.2010.519396 Selepak, A., & Sutherland, J. (2012). The Ku Klux Klan, conservative politics, and religion: Bringing extremism to the political mainstream. Politics, Religion and Ideology, 13(1), 75-98. doi:10.1080/21567689.2012.659498Staggenborg, S. (2012). Social Movements (2nd ed.). Canada: Oxford University Press.