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
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During the 1920’s a group called name the Ku Klux Klan that formed in 1865‚ began gaining and becoming more centralized throughout America. It was three movements that practiced extreme reactionary. The Ku Klux Klan advocated‚ white supremacy‚ white nationalism‚ anti-immigration. The KKK re emerged in the 1920’s‚ and became a national organization throughout the states. People that joined the KKK were mostly protestant middle class white men. That wanted to make sure that African Americans‚ immigrants
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The History Channel’s Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History is a fascinating but basic video consisting of the background information that encompasses the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan‚ an American based terrorist group‚ is known not only for their repeated targeting of Blacks and Jews‚ but also of anyone not White Protestant; advocating “white supremacy‚ white nationalism and anti-immigration”.1 The Ku Klux Klan‚ one of the most well-known white supremacist terrorist groups‚ was able to emerge in the aftermath
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The Ku Klux Klan White was the color of their skin. White was the color of the robes they wore. White supremacy was all that they wanted. The Ku Klux Klan was started by ex-Confederate soldiers that held their beliefs very highly. Their beliefs must have been held from a different viewpoint than the majority of people because they were willing to kill for what they wanted. Many people thought that the members‚ or Klansfolk‚ of the Ku Klux Klan eat‚ slept‚ and breathed terrorism‚ but the truth is
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this depiction was apparent in the first Ku Klux Klan‚ crusading in the name of protecting not only white supremacy‚ but white womanhood. These justifications for murder‚ racism‚ violence and bigotry emerged from the contradictory belief that men have a responsibility to protect women and their “livelihood‚” which consisted of submissive and compliant nature towards men. The ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920‚ and creation of the Women’s Ku Klux Klan in 1923 brought the KKK’s inconsistent justifications
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Southerners created the Ku Klux Klan to torture all of the freed slaves by burning down their houses‚ robbing them‚ and even worse... murdering them. The Ku Klux Klan‚ or KKK for short‚ was founded by six confederate veterans in Pulaski‚ Tennessee. The Ku Klux Klan have been on the streets ever since the end of the Civil War with an estimate of about 500‚000 Klan members. The Klansmen wear white robes with white hoods that cover up their faces. The goal of the Ku Klux Klan was to battle against the
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The Original Klan The first two words of “Ku Klux Klan” derived from a Greek word “KyKlos” meaning circle (History1). The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866‚ in the southern state Tennessee. Southern states were where most slaves worked. The group extended to nearly every southern state by 1870 (History1). Members of the group waged an underground campaign of violence and torture aimed at white and black Republican leaders (History1). The first meetings of the Klan were held in a general organizing
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United States history could be so infamous and so influential to be described as “America’s Recurring Nightmare” and an “Invisible Empire” by historians. This society was the Ku Klux Klan. First witnessed in post-Civil war America and established in its first incarnation by Shiloh survivor‚ Nathan Bedford Forrest‚ the Klan utilized terroristic methods to harass former slaves and white Republicans and arguably was successful in its goal to re-establish white supremacy in the South. A similar incarnation
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Alejandra Gonzalez History 108 Dr.Lewis 25 August2014 Ku Klux Klan In 1865‚ a native-born American racist terrorist organization that became known as the Ku Klux Klan was founded by William Nathan Bedford a former confederate general. The Ku Klux Klan is one of the oldest and most feared groups in America. The KKK is a group that has used violence and actions above the law to support their cause. It was after the Civil War when the clan grew out from the South‚ with the purpose to “protect
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the Ku Klux Klan and how it has evolved as an organization‚ its establishment as a political organization with race-associated motives is the most accurate of the three. The evidence provided within the second perspective provides the reader with clear evidence of not only the motives of the Klan‚ but also the origins of its establishment. Within three out of the four historical sources‚ the Klan is depicted as a violent and racially motivated regime. Elaine Parsons states in her book‚ Ku Klux: The
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