The Ku Klux Klan Effect On Society

Emmett Till, a young 14 year old Black boy from Chicago, was murdered in 1955 in Money, Mississippi. Till came down from Chicago to visit his family at the time he stopped by a grocery store. As he entered he casually said “hey babe” to the cashier and she happened to take it as assault. She happened to be a White women who thought the boy was harassing her. She told her husband Miliam and Roy husband's half brother about this incident. A couple nights later, they went Tills uncle's house, Mose Wright, and began knocking incessantly and abducted the poor innocent boy. They took him away in their car and later beat him black and blue until at last they finally shot him. They threw his boy in Tallahatchie River. A few days after such a tragic
The Klan was originally started by six retired confederate soldiers and was founded for a social fraternity. However, the Klan filled America with hatred and white terror. They preached white supremacy and they were against the Yankee government of reconstruction. The Klans progression was increasing rapidly however, as the klan grew they began going on night rides where they started to threaten newly freed blacks. They began to have black codes as an insurance that white supremacy was going to last forever. However, the Republicans took charge so they passed voting rights for the black men. The Klan was furious about passing the 14th amendment and they began to intimidate many black men and kept them away from the voting booths by one of the most common ways abuse. Many people were brutally beat up to the point of
Sam (organizer) reformed the Klan. This time the Klan was going to be self-govern with no nation affiliation. The South was a battleground over integration and civil rights. The burning of the cross was still used as terror. Once again beating and murdering was back. Blacks began to take a stand and held sit- ins and had boycotts and bus protests.
UKA stands for the United Klans of America. This Klan was pulled together by a salesman. He was very loyal to his Klan. He preferred to be sentenced to jail, but he did not say a word about other members in the Klan. They played a huge role in the savage beating of the Freedom Riders. The UKA brutally beat anyone they saw who they thought were Freedom Riders. Even the officers had known about such conditions, but they had made a deal with the Klan Freedom Summer was originally started to work on community building and voting