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n. - A local unit of the Ku Klux Klan.

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  • In fact, the most powerful "klavern" or local Klan was the Nathan Bedford Forrest klavern #1, located in Atlanta during the 1940s and
  • LAMB: Let me stop you to ask you about what's a klavern?
  • Ms. McWHORTER: A klavern is like a club, one of the -- the small groups of Klansmen.
  • LAMB: Did you talk to anybody for the book that had been a member of that Klan -- klavern?
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