Ku Klux Klan reaserach paper
The United States of America’s oldest terrorist group is the notorious Ku Klux Klan or KKK for short. The terrorist organization is a white supremacy group that is against any person that is not Caucasian. The organization began during the civil war and the reconstruction of the United States of American after the civil war when the North defeated the South and it completely made African Americans citizens of the United States of America.
Founded in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee in early 1866 by six Confederate Army veterans, the name Ku Klux Klan was an alteration of the Greek word for circle. Quoting the author of the article Carnival of Death: Lynching in America” that the Ku Klux Klan, “was formed because a group of young men were bored with post war Tennessee and, by their own admission; the club had no real purpose or goals.”(Gado).James Crowe was one of the founding fathers and said the Klan had no political significance and only was created to have fun, make mischief and play pranks on the public. The group often rode through rural areas dressed in outlandish costumes. The word soon spread that the white robed riders were actually ghosts of Confederate soldiers killed during the Civil War which were in fact false. Rumors said the ghosts had returned to take vengeance on certain people and the Klan began to harass African American residents by breaking up church meetings and other gatherings where African Americans were. White southerners really hated former slaves who thought they had the same rights as whites.(Gado)
The Ku Klux Klan was built under the basic principles of love and the protection of home. According to the author of The Ku Klux Klan or The Invisible Empire, “no organization ever held loftier ideas or nobler purposes.”(Rose 25)It was made up of soldiers of the Confederacy returned to their homes and were forced to face the war penalty which was slave confiscation and Reconstruction under African American rule. The Ku Klux Klan formed
Founded in the town of Pulaski, Tennessee in early 1866 by six Confederate Army veterans, the name Ku Klux Klan was an alteration of the Greek word for circle. Quoting the author of the article Carnival of Death: Lynching in America” that the Ku Klux Klan, “was formed because a group of young men were bored with post war Tennessee and, by their own admission; the club had no real purpose or goals.”(Gado).James Crowe was one of the founding fathers and said the Klan had no political significance and only was created to have fun, make mischief and play pranks on the public. The group often rode through rural areas dressed in outlandish costumes. The word soon spread that the white robed riders were actually ghosts of Confederate soldiers killed during the Civil War which were in fact false. Rumors said the ghosts had returned to take vengeance on certain people and the Klan began to harass African American residents by breaking up church meetings and other gatherings where African Americans were. White southerners really hated former slaves who thought they had the same rights as whites.(Gado)
The Ku Klux Klan was built under the basic principles of love and the protection of home. According to the author of The Ku Klux Klan or The Invisible Empire, “no organization ever held loftier ideas or nobler purposes.”(Rose 25)It was made up of soldiers of the Confederacy returned to their homes and were forced to face the war penalty which was slave confiscation and Reconstruction under African American rule. The Ku Klux Klan formed