Ku Klux Klan

Examples of Ku Klux Klan in the following topics:

• The Ku Klux Klan

  • The Ku Klux Klan, an organization promoting white supremacy and anti-immigration, peaked in its prominence during the 1920s.
  • In the 1920s, Indiana had the most powerful Ku Klux Klan organization in America.
  • Stephenson destroyed the image of the Ku Klux Klan as upholders of law and order.
  • Robed members of the Ku Klux Klan burn a cross during a rally in 1921.
  • Indiana Ku Klux Klan leader D.C.

• White Terror

  • Although sometimes linked to the secret vigilante groups of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as to the Knights of the White Camelia, the White League and other paramilitary groups of the later 1870s displayed significant differences.
  • Six well-educated Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War.
  • The Ku Klux Klan was one among a number of secret, oath-bound organizations—including the Southern Cross, in New Orleans (1865), and the Knights of the White Camelia (1867), in Louisiana—using violence as a political weapon.
  • The Klan used public violence against blacks as a method of intimidation.
  • Because most of the Klan's members were veterans, they were used to the hierarchical structure of the organization; however, the Klan never operated under this centralized structure.

• African American Migration

  • To escape the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, and the Jim Crow laws, which continued to make them second-class citizens after Reconstruction, as many as forty thousand Exodusters left the South to settle in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Colorado.

• The Role of Religion in the Civil Rights Movement

  • Social activism faced fierce repression from police, the White Citizens' Council, and the Ku Klux Klan.
  • Three months later, on September 15, 1963, four members of the Ku Klux Klan planted at least 15 sticks of dynamite attached to a timing device beneath the front steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church.
  • Although the FBI had concluded in 1965 that the bombing had been committed by four known Ku Klux Klansmen and segregationists, no prosecutions ensued until 1977, with two men sentenced to life imprisonment as late as 2001 and 2002 respectively and one never being charged.
  • Augustine, Florida were met with arrests and Ku Klux Klan violence, the local SCLC affiliate appealed to Dr.
  • Ku Klux Klan remains the most illustrative example of this trend.

• Woodrow Wilson and Race

  • A Southerner, Wilson was said to be a vocal fan of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation, which celebrated the rise of the first Ku Klux Klan.
  • The film also helped popularize the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan, which gained its greatest power and influence in the mid-1920s.

• Carpetbaggers and Scalawags

  • Scalawags, along with carpetbaggers, were also targets of violence, mainly by the Ku Klux Klan.
  • In an 1868 newspaper interview, Nathan Forrest, the Grand Wizard of the KKK, stated that the Klan's primary opposition was to the Loyal Leagues, Republican state governments, people such as Tennessee governor William Gannaway Brownlow, and other "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags."
  • A cartoon threatening that the Ku Klux Klan would lynch carpetbaggers, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Independent Monitor, 1868

• The Transformed South

  • His work defended some roles in opposing military oppression by the white supremacist group the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) but denounced the Klan's violence.
  • The Klan and other such groups were careful to avoid federal legal intervention or military conflict.

• Conservative Resurgence

  • The Klan and other such groups were careful to avoid federal legal intervention or military conflict.
  • Cartoon from 1868 ("'Tis but a change of banners - CSA KKK"), which accuses the Democratic party presidential candidates of relying on support from Ku Klux Klan members who were Confederate traitors in 1864 (from the point of view of the United States).

• Conclusion: The Effects of Reconstruction

  • Although legally equal, black Americans were subject to segregation laws in South, violence at the hands of white supremacy groups like the Ku Klux Klan, and political disfranchisement by state constitutions from 1890 to 1908 that effectively barred most blacks and many poor whites from voting.

• Reform and the Election of 1872

  • Frederick Douglass supported Grant and reminded black voters that Grant had destroyed the violent Ku Klux Klan.