The Historical Significance of the Ku Klux Klan
The Historical Significance of the
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan organization is very important in history but unfortunately it was a bad group of people who where racist. Also the end of the Civil war is a very significant part of history. As the struggle of blacks for freedom came to an end, a new form of struggle began to form. Political, social, and economic gains of blacks after the Civil war became really frightening!! The idea of whites loosing superiority over blacks felt unacceptable. The poor social white class feared of losing their jobs, and the wealthy of loosing cheap labor. As a result, racist groups began to form. The name Ku Klux Klan is now known all over the world. At first formed as a small social club to preserve the white culture, slowly became large racists group of extremists threatening the black community. In 1865, after the Civil War, in Pulaski, Tennessee Nathan Bed Forrest and six other ex confederate soldiers met and formed the organization.
At first the member’s ideas did not sound like anything harmful or racist. It looked like the Klan would be on the side of the poor. The Klan spread and gained its members through the newspapers and clubs, soon becoming an organization with origins in many southern states.
To some whites, the freedom of slaves meant that their social and economic ways of life had been defeated and found satisfaction in the Klan. As more people joined, ideas began to change causing the Klan to slowly become violent and fearful. In a year the Klan went out of control, terrorizing and killing the black community. Their goal was to frighten the black and also even the white community so they can have an impact on their political decisions and votes. They also do not like Roman Catholics, Gay people, Jews or anybody considered to be an outsider. They also believe White Woman are inferior. So they targeted these people that they hated by burning wooden
Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan organization is very important in history but unfortunately it was a bad group of people who where racist. Also the end of the Civil war is a very significant part of history. As the struggle of blacks for freedom came to an end, a new form of struggle began to form. Political, social, and economic gains of blacks after the Civil war became really frightening!! The idea of whites loosing superiority over blacks felt unacceptable. The poor social white class feared of losing their jobs, and the wealthy of loosing cheap labor. As a result, racist groups began to form. The name Ku Klux Klan is now known all over the world. At first formed as a small social club to preserve the white culture, slowly became large racists group of extremists threatening the black community. In 1865, after the Civil War, in Pulaski, Tennessee Nathan Bed Forrest and six other ex confederate soldiers met and formed the organization.
At first the member’s ideas did not sound like anything harmful or racist. It looked like the Klan would be on the side of the poor. The Klan spread and gained its members through the newspapers and clubs, soon becoming an organization with origins in many southern states.
To some whites, the freedom of slaves meant that their social and economic ways of life had been defeated and found satisfaction in the Klan. As more people joined, ideas began to change causing the Klan to slowly become violent and fearful. In a year the Klan went out of control, terrorizing and killing the black community. Their goal was to frighten the black and also even the white community so they can have an impact on their political decisions and votes. They also do not like Roman Catholics, Gay people, Jews or anybody considered to be an outsider. They also believe White Woman are inferior. So they targeted these people that they hated by burning wooden