How Did The Ku Klux Klan Formed In The 1920s

In the first five years of the 1920s there was a rebirth of the ku Klux Klan. It was a white racist organization coming from the Reconstruction time. The majority of native-born American protestants had concerns regarding the large number of immigrants inside the United States. Ku Klux Klan members claimed that immigrants were threatening the idea of keeping the country a hundred per cent American. By 1924 the Ku Klux Klan gained up to four million members, many of whom had powerful positions in their communities. It became the largest organization in Indiana, and for quiet some time the majority of the Republican Party members of that state were part of the Ku Klux Klan. During the 1920s the organization target a wider variety of individuals than in Reconstruction.
Besides African-Americans the largest group the Ku Klux Klan attacked were immigrants. Among the indifferences of the decade, only a few incidents managed to touch the nation’s heart causing the Ku Klux Klan to loose power. One of the incidents that moved the nation was the Sacco-Vanzetti case. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian anarchists who dreamed of a free society. On May 1920, police arrested the two men on charges that they had killed two people in a robbery at a factory on South Braintree, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti were both immigrants that could not speak english very well. There was little or no evidence that linked either man to the crime. Some Americans were convinced that the two men were being simply discriminated because they were foreigners and radicals. The two men were sentenced to death and died on the electric chair. Some people were moved by the Sacco-Vanzetti case but the majority of Americans were still feeling threatened by the decline of American traditional values due to