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    The Ku Klux Klan is one of our nation's most well known feared groups. It is motivated in a culture with only one race through their eyes they think that if you're not just like them you are not any good. The Ku Klux Klan is an American organization that primarily hates every race that’s not white and also if their religion is a non-protestant religion. The KKK has used violence and actions above the law to support their cause. It has been around for more than 130 years while it continues to thrive

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    The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s The United States of America is a country that has a very unique and divisive racial history. From its colonial beginnings, to its birth and emergence as one of the world’s biggest superpowers, the United States has seen the conflict between racial and ethnic groups. For many decades, the enslavement of Africans was rampant in the United States. Eventually, African culture became Americanized, and no longer were the enslaved people seen as Africans, but as African Americans

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    Intimidation Tactics of the Ku Klux KlanTopic: Intimidation tactics of the Ku Klux KlanQuestion: What tactics would the Ku Klux Klan use to intimidate African Americans in the US?Thesis: The KKK would impose fear in African Americans by using violent and symbolic methods to intimidate them.Since the start of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865, members have used violent means to intimidate African Americans and other groups of ethically “unclean” people. The KKK would impose fear in African Americans by using

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    The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee and expanded to almost every southern state by 1870. The Ku Klux Klan started off as a social group full of Confederate Veteran’s. The first two words of their group came from the Greek word “kyklos” which means circle. They selected their first leader in the summer of 1867 who was Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest! This group started after the Civil War during Reconstruction. Violence from the Ku Klux Klan started in 1867 after

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    Ku Klux Klan Fight Club

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    Hate groups. This is how the Ku Klux Klan started. From the beginning there has been three different itera-tions of the Ku Klux Klan, each of them with their own way of expressing their belief. The “first” Ku Klux Klan, or the “Or-der”, self-described themselves as the “Invisible Empire of the South”, they were an underground resistance movement. They were trying to preserve its old way of life. Then there was the second Ku Klux Klan, or the “Knights of the Ku Klux Klan“. This division had been the

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    Racism and the Ku Klux Klan Since the early development of society in the United States, racism has always been a divisive issue faced by communities on a political level. Our country was built from the immigration of people from an international array of backgrounds. However, multitudes of white supremacists blame their personal as well as economic misfortunes on an abundance of ethnic groups. African-Americans, Jews and Catholics are only some of the of groups tormented

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    The Ku Klux Klan has brought terror in America by completing violent acts around the United States. Throughout the history of the Ku Klux Klan, the white supremacist group has used acts of terrorism to oppose the granting of civil rights to African Americans. Some of the Ku Klux Klan is still apparent today and still ready to fight, which poses a threat to the American people. The Ku Klux Klan is a racial group who stands for white supremacy and even though their numbers have decreased they still

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    The Klan of the 1920's The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was notorious for their hatred towards African Americans and their proclamation of white supremacy. They were known as the invisible empire and for their symbols of intimidation, which included white cloaks with hoods, and burning crosses. The KKK was depicted as an organization which was mostly active in the southern Confederate states and targeted African Americans. It originally died out in the late 1860s, but The Klan rose again in the 1920's because

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    The Ku Klux Klan is an organisation that is supporting white supremacy and is against the idea of African Americans having any sort of rights. This organisation is still going on today, but at a much smaller scale compared to the horror of what it was and what they had to deal with back then. They had over 6 million members at the height of it, but the number of members and supporters would climb and fall throughout history. They would strike fear into those they hated or disagreed with ideally and

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    racism thrives. Throughout its history it been the center of all racism in the U.S. It nags embodied one organization who pride themselves on white supremacy and that is the Ku Klux Klan. There are three stages that the KKK went through and those are the original klan, the rejuvenated Klan and the present Klan. The Ku Klux Klan with its long history of brutality, is the most notorious, and most established of all of Americas contempt bunches. Albeit dark Americans have normally been the Klan's essential

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