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    values/norms and they tend to disrupt the peace of our society. Consequently, their beliefs, rites, and rituals result in crime-filled and tragic endings. Therefore, the beliefs, rites, and rituals of the KKK are very controversial issues. The Ku Klux Klan, or more commonly known as the KKK, is an American Hate Group that promotes the supremacy of the Christian Caucasian (white) ethnicity. They are recognized for using extreme torture and violence to tyrannize other minority races, especially African

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    Have you ever wondered about the KU KLUX KLAN? Do you live in the US? Were your parents born in the US? Are you Christen? If you answered yes to all of these you can be in the KU KLUX KLAN. The KU KLUX KLAN is able to commit violent acts in the south because there are people that agree with what they do to the blacks as well as people being afraid of them. In Document “F” the death of William Luke a white man the Klan lynched William because he wants to educate the blacks and he disagreed with

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    The Ku Klux Klan strongly came about after the Civil War. The group was officially established on December 4,1865 in Pulaski, Tennessee where a a group of Confederate veterans created a secret society. In 1869 the KKK'S first grand wizard, Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, unsuccessfully attempted to disband it after he became aware of the Klan's over the top viciousness. The group practiced violence whose aim was to instill fear and intimidation by terrorizing African Americans and white

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    The Ku Klux Klan is a local conceived American bigot terrorist association that exterminated Republican Reconstruction governments in the South after the Civil War. The organization’s goal was also exclude Black people from legislative issues. Participation became gradually amid World War I, yet after 1920, filled by after war despair and smart dignifying approaches, the Klan expanded rapidly. It resuscitated in the 1920s as a social dormitory and quickly transformed the political force of the nation

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    The Birth of The Ku Klux Klan How the KKK was started / how they got there name .................page 3 How they got there disguises........................................................page 4 Jokes that they would play on the blacks......................................page 5 How they would initiate members.................................................page 6 Names that members had and that were given..............................page 7 Expanding The Ku Klux Klan................

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    THE KU KLUX KLAN: A BRIEF HISTORY Elizabeth Shanholtz History of Terrorism 333-001 November 10, 2015   The Ku Klux Klan In today’s world, Americans would like to classify our country as a “Melting Pot,” meaning that all people, of all cultures and backgrounds blend together and make one homogenous society. While this concept is not entirely true, it holds some aspects that help make this country so great. It gives the idea that everyone is equal and everyone receives the same opportunities

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    The Ku Klux Klan was known as the biggest hate group in American History, and they are responsible for thousands of innocent blacks’ deaths. The Ku Klux Klan made it very hard for the blacks, Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and homosexuals to live a normal life. The Klan made them live in fear. The Ku Klux Klan was a racial hate group in the south that made sure blacks did not get any civil rights. Members in the Ku Klux Klan believed whites were superior to other races. The KKK hated the blacks because

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    The Klu Klux Klan developed during the Reconstruction period of the United States, after the Civil War(“Ku Klux Klan”). The organization assembled as a group to intimidate newly freed slaves in the south. They focused on their anger on the government that was supporting African American rights during the “Birth of the Nation.” The only race that was presented the opportunity to join the organization was WASPs, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants(“The KKK”). The group included mayors, judges, sheriffs

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    that the organization gained a national resurgence (Getchell). This version of the Klan was known as “The Second Ku Klux Klan.” The resurgent Klan of the 1920s was a short-lived but potent phenomenon. The second KKK was a mass movement that invoked the memory of and built upon the first KKK, which was a terrorist organization founded by white supremacists in the U.S. South (“The Ku Klux Klan In Washington State, 1920s”) The majority of klan members confined their opposition tactics to parading and burning

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    Ku Klux Klan Case Study

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    INTRODUCTION: The Ku Klux Klan or as most people may know them as, the KKK is who I who I chose to write about for this case study assignment. I chose this terrorist group because as a child, I heard a lot about them in schools but I never really gained full knowledge about that terrorist group other than it being a group of Caucasian that hate the African American race. Honestly I never knew that they were considered a terrorist group until recently after doing a little research and at this point

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