From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI) is a series of nine digits which are sent in digital form over a radio frequency channel in order to uniquely identify ship stations, ship earth stations, coast stations, coast earth stations, and group calls.
The author of Klansville, U.S.A.: The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-Era KKK (Oxford University Press, 2013), Cunningham is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Brandeis University. Before discussing the most pressing questions people tend to have about the KKK, let me add some background for basic context. The Ku Klux Klan was first formed in 1866, through the efforts of a small band of Confederate veterans in Tennessee.
In Pulaski, Tennessee, a group of Confederate veterans convenes to form a secret society that they christen the âKu Klux Klan.â The KKK rapidly grew from a secret social fraternity to a paramilitary force bent on reversing the federal governmentâs progressive Reconstruction Era-activities in the South, especially policies that elevated the rights of the local African American population.