members started coordinated a burned cross in 1921. Many of them were placed in the front yards of Africans Americans families to intimidated. The act of the burning cross is the practice of an effort to intimidate anyone who does not stands to the Ku Klux Klan beliefs and ideals. In the medieval Scotland, the burning cross was used to represent disobedience against or a call to the troops. The Ku Klux Klan wear robes and hoods to disguise their identity while putting the burning crosses. Their been a lot of incident with the KKK burning for example the first KKK cross burned happened at Stone Mountain,Georgia on the eve of Thanksgiving in November, 1915 at an immigrant home. The reasons why they light the crosses is not because it represent evil,Klan members do not refer this action as evil cross burning. The Ku Klux Klan named it the cross lighting and say it is a symbol of their faith and belief.The flames in the cross represent supposedly symbolize the passionate light of Christ. The Ku Klux Klan declared to be Christian foundation.They call themselves a Klan like the close united clans in medieval Scotland.In recents cases in Florida 2006 there was a charged intimidating someone's housing by the use of fire and was guilty of a crime involving a cross burning, in his front yard, to impede the purchase of a house by an African-American family.
At the time of Ulysses S.
Grant's election to the presidency, white groups were supervise a rule of terror throughout the South. In outright resistance of the Republican-led federal government, Southern Democrats found a organizations that violently scared blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power. In the time of the 1868 presidential election, the Ku Klux Klan activities picked up in speed and great cruelty. The election, which marked Republican Ulysses S. Grant against Democrat Horatio Seymour, was crucial. Republicans continue schedule that prevented Southern whites from achieving political control in their states. Klan members knew the given chance, the blacks in their communities would vote Republican.From the causes Ku Klux Klan brutality. Across the South, the Ku Klux Klan and other terrorist groups used curell violence to scare Republican voters. In Kansas, over 2,000 murders were committed in connection with the election with the Republicans. In Georgia, the number of threats and beatings was even higher. In Louisiana, 1000 blacks were killed when as the election neared by the cause of the Ku Klux Klan. In those three states, Democrats won major victories at the polls. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, Klan groups extended the aim to their racist abuse at immigrants, extremely to Hispanics.. The anti-immigration theme became a major issue used by the Klan to enlist new members and attract
publicity. Although many Klansmen received food stamps and other forms of government assistance today, they continually oppose at African Americans who received "welfare" and offende the African American of sucking the blood out of hard-working real Americans. The Ku Klux Klan, with its long history of violence, is the most infamous and oldest of American hated groups. However the Africans Americans have typically been the Klan's main prey, it also has attacked Jews, immigrants,lesbians and gays, until recently Catholics. Over the years since it was established in December 1865, the Klan has normally seen their self as a Christian organization,however in modern times Klan groups were inspire by political beliefs. Klan members embrace masks and robes that hid their identities from others. They had chosen the time for attacks. Many of them run into small towns and countryside areas where people otherwise knew each other's faces, and sometimes still recognized the aggressor by voice. The kind of thing that the mens were afraid or guilty to do openly, and by the day, they accomplish privately, masked, and at night to do the job to frighten the superstitious African Americans. Few freedmen took such nonsense seriously,the existence of the Klan 1865 to present.