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    KKK The KKK was a very evil and powerful group. The KKK clan was responsible for taking thousands of African American’s lives. The KKK had a lot of power. People would join them one by one and the clan would get progesivly bigger. When the clan attacked blacks they would out numbered them by far. Even though they were ruthless the clan actually did things in an orderely fashion. They used many ways to scare people and intimidate blacks. They would beat and attack victims sometimes

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    http://www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan The KKK expanded into about every southern state. The KKK in the early 20th century burned crosses and had parades talking bad about immigrants and Blacks. A group involving many former Confederate veterans, Nathan Bedford Forrest founded the KKK in Tennessee. Also, the greek word for circle is “kyklos”, which is where the KKK got its name.The group of the KKK started at the same time as Reconstruction.The KKK committed itself to being violent against blacks

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    Independence(Roden,505). Also that the Civil War lasted 4 years(Dallek, 535). The question asked is, South or North. Who destroyed Reconstruction? I think the South destroyed Reconstruction because of the KKK wanted power, the KKK was harming the African Americans, and the South wouldn’t stop the KKK. In 1876, it was the 100th year of the Declaration of Independence. After the Civil War. the government's purpose of the Construction was to bring the 11 Southern states back to the Union. But in the cause

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    recently debated role of KKK in the 1920’s. The no perspective written by Thomas Pregram acknowledges the large presence of the second wave Ku Klux Klan and uses earlier views of the Group to back his argument. His argument is despite the new size of the KKK majority of America still strongly disagreed and resented the protestant group. The adverse view point says the KKK was a mainstream political group and this argument is stated in Shawn Lay’s essay. Lay argues that the KKK was mainstream not

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    notice that they had a new section for Rare Klu Klux Klan Memorabilia. When I observed this section, many things stood out from the KKK uniforms all the way to the lynching ropes. The one thing that I observed that really made me angry was the KKK sword that they had in the center of the showcase shelf. It was made in California in 1866. The KKK sword found in the KKK memorabilia section made me upset and sent chills down my spine. Mainly because the

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    The Ku Klux Klan, established in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866, is an anti-African American group that terrorizes African Americans in the South even to this day. The Ku Klux Klan, otherwise known as the KKK, was founded at an instrumental time in American history- it was founded during the Reconstruction Era, following the Civil War. This was a time of tension between white Americans and black Americans; many whites in the South were upset that black slaves had been emancipated as a direct result of

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    believe that the KKK (Ku Klux Klan) is a terrorist group. The KKK, just like any other terrorist groups around the world argue’s their attacks on civilian targets to spread fear for some alleged political goal. The KKK was founded on December 24, 1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee consider to be the original domestic terrorist. By six college students J. Calvin Jones, Frank O. McCord, John B. Kennedy, John C. Lester, James R. Crowe, and Richard R. Reed. Before their was a name for the KKK, African Americans

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    rights in America. Since the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK started several violent scenarios have occured . The KKK was started by a group of confederate war veterans, who felt that black Americans didn't matter. The KKK was a group of anti federalists that was very violent toward black people. The KKK were founded in 1866, in the state of Tennessee. By 1920, the KKK killed over 4 million people nationwide. By the year of 1870, the KKK was spread into almost every southern state in the U.S. Mostly

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    limits when it came to torturing it’s enemies. The KKK stood in the way of racial equality from its beginnings, its actions, and its work today They KKK had a very distinct beginning that changed the US. “The KKK began in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865 as an informal society of six veterans of the Confederacy, the Southern states that had fought the Union during the American Civil War”(“Ku Klux Klan”). This evidence shows that the men who started the KKK were from the deep south and fought against the

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    During the 1920’s the KKK displayed a strong power of continuity over the power of aberration. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the Black Exclusion Act of 1849 began the use of prejudice and intolerances within the Pacific Northwest. The KKK used those Acts as a step and sustained the route. Throughout time the KKK definitely exemplified the use of exclusion, nativism, xenophobia, racism, and colonization. The list of people and or traits one had often exceeded what was viewed as wholesome.

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