What Impact Did The Ku Klux Klan Have On Society

American lives during the early to middle 20th century were fearing, beaten, hated, and struggling ones. For only a few could truly escape the racism, poverty, and crisis that other Americans faced. The Ku Klux Klan (also known as the KKK) had a large negative impact on their lives. The black leadership was a positive influence towards the racial disputes and segregation laws, African American soldiers fighting in the United States military would be awarded and later well decorated with medals of French and American bravery, Jim Crow Laws and what they ment to the racist southern states of the U.S. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, racism is the next basic thing to breathing air, everyone there is a somewhat racist, almost everyone,
These laws were known as the Jim Crow Laws, these laws enforced that White Americans and African Americans remained segregated. Jim Crow was a character made up by Thomas D. Rice.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in the rural south of the U.S. in 1865-1869. It was started by a small group of United States Confederate veterans, who actively supported racism of now freed slave Americans. They would lynch African Americans and those who supported them, later they would be racist and prejudice towards Jewish practitioners, Catholics and other religions and races. The KKK would begin to grow at a reasonable pace during the later decades, and lynch, hurt, and threaten more African Americans.

Later, in 1916 (though the U.S would not join until 1917), African Americans then started to join the military in large numbers, for there was a war upon the United States, World War One (also known as the Great War) caused many African Americans to want to join the army, for they thought this could make a difference in the discrimination amongst themselves, African Americans thought that if they would return home as soldiers, with great honor, they would be praised and the racism against them would be lifted up off of them, unfortunately, it did
A young, newer, bold face had came to the aid of many African Americans who were suffering the same fate as 100 years ago, in the American Civil War. Martin Luther King Jr. had risen up the ladder of discrimination of African American lives, for he led peaceful protests in the streets of Washington D.C, proving that there can be peace without violence (although that wasn't always the case when they rallied). Mr. King Jr. had also tried to end his life. For when he was only 12 years old, he had attempted suicide, by jumping from a two story window, of course he had survived. Mr. King Jr., when he was older, he had participated in Civil Rights groups and activities, such as the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott (which he had led).

Another famous African American leader was W. E. B. Du Bois. In 1905, Mr. Du Bois and several other African-American civil rights activists met at Niagara Falls and there they wrote a declaration of principles opposing the Atlanta Compromise, and established the Niagara Movement in 1906. Mr. Du Bois used his persuasive role in the National Association for The Advancement of Colored People to oppose a variety of racist