How Did Kkk Influence In Southern Washington?

Topic: In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was founded by many former confederate veterans in retaliation to their current Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. The Reconstruction era sparked by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation clearly defined that the days of white superiority were in dissolution. Through a willful ignorance and an insecurity of what might postlude the civil rights movement, the KKK rose, using terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Lieutenant general in the Civil war, became the KKK's first Grand Wizard. Now with a steady leader the klan became a persistent political party aimed at dismantling the increasingly

- The most notorious organization was the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was organized in Pulaski Tennessee, in 1866 to intimidate former slaves who voted and apprehended political offices during Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan history came all about with the situation in the South following the harsh Civil War. The Southern States were in distraught and the defeated white people were humiliated and felt like they had to get revenge and gain their power back. The goal of the original Ku Klux Klan was to fight against the Reconstruction policies of the radical Republican Congress and to maintain "white supremacy. The Klan was led by merchants, planters, and Democratic politicians. They considered themselves as the most respectable citizens

During the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed many laws to provide equal rights to people of color. But at the local level, specifically in the South, many Democrats took the law into their own hands. They supported the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hoping to restore the pre-Civil War social hierarchy. The texts in Going to the Source illustrate two groups of individuals who opposed the KKK. In testimonies given by white witnesses, Republicans from the North felt the KKK posed a political and social danger in the South, but did not feel intimidated. The testimonies given by black witnesses were people who had experience of the Klan’s violence, and felt their lives were threatened. The Klan’s attacks on whites were more inclined towards social harassment, while their attacks on blacks, which consisted of voting intimidation and night rides, were violent and abusive because the KKK’s main goal was white supremacy.

The Invisible Empire of the 1920s mainly came from the south and southwest. They never were fully mainstream due to the fact that they brought about a lot of drama and negativity as well as opposition. Many states even went as far as to banish the Invisible Empire or pass laws that did not allow masks to be worn so that the public meetings that the KKK held would be broken apart. Although, the KKK were not mainstream they did however interact with the mainstream crowd daily. They did this to attract new members to their heinous group. Members were often short-term and unloyal. The continuous violence, egotism, and unsuccessful political power plays drove many members out of the Klan in the mid 1920s.

KKK lasted much longer and had millions of members, partially due to their organization with

Klux Klan Activities, New York Tribune, May 1870” the KKK is only treating equally the republicans/ northerners. Any people who would support african americans would be attacked by the KKK. The KKK was/is an extremely vicious and inhumane group. In October 29th 1869, Abram Colby (a former slave) was attacked by the KKK because he voted radical ticket/

The article The Golden Era of Indiana (1900-1941) talked negatively about the Ku Klux Klan and gave information about the terrible things they have done throughout the centuries. However, the article Rank-and-File Radicalism within the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s did not speak that harley about the Ku Klux Klan in fact the article gave a lot of the Ku Klux Klan members opinions. In a way the article expression how the klan was not as bad as people thought. manly because the Ku Klux Klan believed they are doing the right thing. They also denied all killings and played the victims by saying they are also blamed for murders. “A survey of Literary Digest (conservative) and The Nation (liberal) for 1922-1923 reveals several reported instances in which the Klan was blamed for violence it did not perpetrate and unfairly deprived of its rights”

it was just the South. the Ku Klux Klan was not ever based on Scottish clans evan though

“HE was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room. ”(Tourgee 511) This quote shows that the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was killing Northerners who were trying to keep Reconstruction efforts going. “The picture in Document A depicts a donkey, labelled the KKK, walking away after hanging a carpetbaggers and a scalawag. ”(Independent

The Reconstruction-era Klan, the 1920s Klan, and the modern Klan are three Ku Klux Klans in the United States history. Just as any terrorism group throughout human history, The Ku Klux Klans have often used scare tactics to enforce their power and scare minorities. No terrorist regime has lasted over the decades. They usually take the limelight for a small period of time. They are centered in newspapers, magazines, photos, journals, and broadcast media for the duration of their time and then they usually fade away. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s is no exception. The 1920s Klan was founded by William J. Simmons in 1915 and then was disbanded. It was a powerful organization and had a huge political and social influence in the United States for a time. The 1920s Klan aims was against equal rights for African Americans, and resisted Catholics, Jews and foreigners. The 1920s Klan’s members always tried to control, oppress, and prevent the newly freed slaves from entering the mainstream of American life. The 1920s Klan took the spotlight into fame and media for their message of hate and anti-white American idealism. Was the Klan of the 1920s a mainstream organization?

    The Ku Klux Klan was a huge terrorist group that have had up to 8,000,000 members

“By the summer of 1964,” David Cunningham writes in “Klansville, U.S.A.,” “the Carolina Klan established a demanding schedule of nightly rallies across the state, where they enlisted thousands of dues-paying members.” More than that, “at its mid-1960s peak the Klan’s presence in North Carolina eclipsed klan membership in all other southern states combined.” (Cunningham most likely put “klan” in lowercase because of the groups’ disorganization.)

The KKK affected most of America and it affected Civil Rights. The KKK are a terrorist group who mainly target blacks. “Opposed to the Civil Rights Movement and its attempt to end racial Segregation and discrimination, the Klan capitalized on the fears of whites, to grow to a membership of about 20,000.” “By the 1990s, the Klan had shrunk to under ten thousand members and had splintered into several organizations, including the Imperial Klans of America, the Knights of the White Kamelia, and the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.” (Ku Klux Klan - Anti-civil Rights Involvement." Including, Won, Movement, and Law - JRank Articles. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 Apr. 2017.)Where have the KKK affected the most. Did the

In the 1920s, the membership of the Klan sky rocketed and by the middle of the decade the national membership in the underground society ranged from three to eight million members. One of the reasons for the triumphant growth of the Klan in the 1920s was due to the fact that membership wasn’t restricted to anyone (white). Membership was accessible to the poor, uneducated, mainstream, and middle class Americans. It is reported that even doctors, lawyers and my God ministers were supporters of the men who donned the white robes that struck trepidation in the hearts of non-white Americans. The KKK was ultimately even able to take control of the local and state politics in the 1920s as well; they would come up with a very well thought out strategy to get their fellow Klansman elected.

Countless citizens were scared of the KKK because they had killed so many innocent people. People in America did not know what to believe in. The Ku Klux Klan believed in white supremacy and if someone did not believe in the supremacy of the white race, they would be punished by members of the Klan (“Ku Klux Klan” 4). In the Klan’s mind, blacks were not allowed to be equal (“Ku Klux Klan” 3). The KKK targeted other groups besides the blacks; they also targeted Roman Catholics, Jews, and foreigners (“Ku Klux Klan” 1).