By the end of 1868 the Ku Klux Klan, unknown just a few years earlier, was so widespread in the South that its name was applied to completely unrelated products. Here is a reference to a card game:
Mobile Register
Sunday, Jan 31, 1869
Mobile, AL
Vol: 1
Issue: 312
Page: 4
This is fascinating both as an example of how quickly the KKK percolated into wider popular culture, and as an ugly demonstration of how markers of racial bigotry and implicit (or explicit) violence become normalized. It reminds me of the hideous children’s gam “Juden Raus” — “Jews Out” — which was marketed in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. It may be seen in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.
Thanks for your comment Fergus. Honored to see you here.