The Ku Klux Klan was formed during the end of the Civil War in order to deny the civil rights of Southern African Americans. They are one of the oldest hate groups in America with a violent history that opposed everyone that wasn’t a white, protestant, Christian American. This includes Jewish, lesbian, gay, and immigrant individuals. Only recently do they allow Catholics into their numbers. They are infamous in popular culture as wearing white robes and hoods, burning crosses, lynching people of other races, and lobbying for sympathetic politicians. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the KKK currently estimates 5,000 to 8,000 members in various chapters. The Loyal White Knights and The Knights Party of the KKK have websites that post propaganda, news, faqs, events calendars, and applications for membership. They use these websites as ways to get potential members to come out to their functions. For instance, the Loyal White Kinghts Realm of Texas is having a meet and greet in Temple, TX on November 2, 2013. The KKK chapters in Texas include Empire Knights of the KKK, Lone Wolf Brigade Knights of the KKK, Loyal White Knights of the KKK, Southern Kalvary Knights of the KKK, United Klans of America, United White Knights of the KKK, and the White Camelia Knights of the KKK.…
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.…
The Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK, was considered America’s first terrorist group. They were a group that wanted white supremacy in America. They terrorized and killed many African Americans using techniques such as torture, murder, and they would hurt you economically if you owned a business, they would boycott your business and would have others boycott it also. These tactics made African Americans scared and the KKK’s goal was to put terror in The African Americans and have white Supremacy. This made not as many votes come in, since the white southerners weren’t allowed to vote, because many African Americans were scared to vote and hold office since the Constitution now allowed the freed black to have these basic rights.…
The Black Panther Party Movement for Self-Defense was founded in Oakland California, October 1966.[i] The leaders of this militant group were Huey Newton, and Bobby Seale. The Black Panthers mission was to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing, and community based programs. [ii] Newton and Seale challenged the non-violent philosophy established by Martin Luther King, and instead encouraged African Americans living in urban ghettos to take up arms in self-defense against police brutality.[iii] The Panthers were greatly influenced by Malcolm X and his willingness to use violence in order to reach equality with whites. The Black Panthers created a violent reputation for black people, which created the stereotype that all black people are violent. Many peaceful black figures, such as Martin Luther King, lost the respect of white people due to this new stereotype. Another powerful group in American history is the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was a secret society of multiple groups of mostly Southern Americans that practiced terrorist attacks to put a stop to black and white equality.[iv] The name Ku Klux Klan came from the Greek word “kuklos” which means circle or ring, and Klan refers to a Scottish or Irish “clan” which is a family. They word “clan” was used because most of the founders of the KKK were of Irish or Scottish descents. Ex-Confederate veteran Nathan Bedford Forest and his friends John C. Lester, James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, and Frank O. McCord established the first Ku Klux Klan in 1865. Although separated in time, these two groups had many similarities. By comparing these two groups histories and tactics, it will be clear that these groups shared many similarities.…
They caused many innocent people to be killed and injured just because they were born a certain race and religion. The Klan had a terrible reputation and I think some of it was some person’s foolishness to accept that they were the “new Klan.” When the Klan entered Williamson County they were led there because of the Kleagles that told them this would be a good place to be. Bootlegging was going on everywhere and law enforcement was proving to be inefficient in stopping the people who were breaking the law making their own alcohol. The Klan saw this as a perfect opportunity to get people to follow…
The KKK was founded on December, 24 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee. By 1870 the KKK had spread into all the southern states. Many of its members were Civil War veterans of the Confederate Army. The group became an advocate for white southern resistance to the Reconstruction policies aimed at allowing the blacks to have equal rights. They also attacked against other minorities such as Jews, Catholics, and liberals. Their goal was to deem…
The Ku Klux Klan are a racist group which was at its peak in early to mid 1900s when they had about four million members. The group started in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 by mainly ex confederate soldiers (History.com). The first grand wizard was Nathan Bedford Forrest who was an ex confederate general. Today, the KKK has about 5,000 to 8,000 members mainly…
Many different groups had emigrated to America over the years. One group - the Blacks - had been brought there against their will and after the success of the northern states during the Civil War and the freeing of the Blacks from slavery in 1865, a sinister group was established which was designed to spread fear throughout the Black population that still lived in the southern states. This was the KKK. Only WASP’s could belong to it — White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. It is a common myth that the KKK targeted only the Blacks - also hated were the Jews, Catholics, liberals etc but most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the south who were very vulnerable to attack.…
The KKK is well known for the amount of hate that they had for African Americans during the time of reconstruction. They were a destructive group of people that would burn down African American churches and schools. The KKK did not like African Americans and didn’t approve of the freedom that they were about to receive by America. The KKK ended around 1872, but then the second KKK was found in Atlanta during 1915. The second KKK was much bigger and more violent than the first KKK.…
The KKK is one of the most cruel and deadly terrorist groups in all of United States History. They focus on white supremacy and are notorious for targeting and terrorizing poor black families in the south. Some of their most notable incidents that got them on the map were the Tulsa Race Riots and the killing of three civil rights activists.…
A lot of people during our day and change still don’t know what the KKK is. They never take the time to ask someone the question, “what is the KKK?’. The KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan. The first two words of the organization’s name supposedly derived from the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist group spread across the United States of America. They are anti- blacks, Jews, and Catholic. They are domestic terrorist. Also they are Neo-Nazis and Christian Protestants.…
The KKK was a group of white males against the rights of African Americans. They intimidated, destroyed the property of, assaulted, and murdered thousands of African Americans and Civil rights activists. In an attempt to intimidate anyone who supported African Americans rights. The group would also lynch people which is public execution often by hanging in order to frighten a minority group. They threatened and discriminated the teachers and students, the teachers were threatened regardless of their race.…
Had there been no deliberate oppression in the South bound by the Reconstruction, corrupt carpetbaggers - Northerners who came to the South during the Reconstruction to abuse of the situation - misrule and violence, secret societies such as the Ku Klux Klan would not have come into existence. Initially created for the sole purpose of albeit perverse form of amusement, the Klan quickly spread and its aims shifted from amusement to repression. Formally opposed to the Reconstruction of the South, the Klan fought against it by gaining political power. Members of the Klan were elected into political parties across the Nation, and influenced more and more people into joining their club. This shifted the Ku Klux Klan from a simple club to a nation wide social movement. It was such a secretive society that it caught the attention of everybody. People wanted to know what it was, what it was doing, who these people were, that the number of memberships to the group grew exponentially. By as early as 1868, the Klan had begun to play a major role in the political life of the South. By making it extremely difficult for African…
The Ku Klux Klan started in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was founded by former confederate soldiers at a drinking club.(-Cavendish, Richard.). There was also a rumor that it was formed by college students that would wear costumes and run around after dark. After hearing that previous slaves feared them they took advantage of it and formed the KKK. At first the club only terrorized African Americans, riding…
This organization composed of confederate veterans, was one of the big segments of society involved in the white supremacy movements. The KKK used acts of violence to terrorize the blacks of the South. After the 15th Amendment allowed black people the right to vote, the KKK “unleashed a wave of terror against them” (469). Not only did the Klu Klux Klan imprint a terrifying social impact, they also impacted Southern politics. The main goal of the Klan was to resist the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies, which aimed at creating political equality for blacks.…