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[[File:Kloran of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of Kanada, based in Toronto.jpg|thumb|1920s ''Kloran'', setting out KKK terms and traditions. Like many KKK terms, this is a [[portmanteau (word)|portmanteau]] term, formed from ''Klan'' and ''[[
[[Ku Klux Klan]] (KKK) nomenclature has evolved over the order's nearly 160 years of existence. The titles and designations were first laid out in the original Klan's prescripts of 1867 and 1868, then revamped with [[William Joseph Simmons|William J. Simmons's]] ''[[Kloran]]'' of 1916. Subsequent Klans have made various modifications.
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=== Higher levels ===
[[File:Children with Dr. Samuel Green, Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon, July 24, 1948.jpg|thumb|Grand Dragon (later Grand Wizard) [[Samuel Green (Klansman)|Dr. Samuel Green]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], July 24 1948, being flanked by two children during the initiation ceremony at
In both prescripts there were four levels or "departments" of organization, above the basic level:<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlhHAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Grand+Wizard+of+the+Empire%22 |title=Congressional Serial Set |date=1872 |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |language=en}}</ref>
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*#'''Desperate'''
Years were reckoned according to '''reigns''' and '''cycles'''. The '''Reign of Incarnation and Incantation''' was all time up to the [[American Revolutionary War]]. The '''First Reign of our Incarnation and Incantation''' was the period between the Revolution and the establishment of the original Klan, which was reckoned to May 6, 1866 in this scheme. The '''Reign of our Second Incarnation and Incantation''' was reckoned between 1866 and Grand Wizard [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]'s dissolution of the Klan, which is reckoned to 1872. The '''Reign of our Third Incarnation and Incantation''' began in 1915.<ref>''Constitution'' pp. 88, 89–90</ref> The Klan year, '''Anno Klanslar''', began in
== Footnotes ==
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