KU KLUX KLAN
By Mason Hedrick, Darin Fuller, & Charles Crandall
KU KLUX KLAN
By Mason Hedrick, Darin Fuller, & Charles Crandall
Our opinion on the Ku Klux Klan is that they are a bunch of ignorant
fools. They claim to stand for a non-violent christian movement. But in
actuality they are very violent. The fact that they burn crosses on the
front lawns, if this is not violence, what is? Over the history of the
kkk, it has been involved in numerous lynching of black people, another
form of their violence. If they were really non- violent, then why do the
have to hide behind the hoods. If they claim to be non-violent, I guess
I can go out and lynch somebody and it wouldn't be considered a violent
act.
NathanBedford Forrest
First founded in 1866 in Pulaski Tennessee, right after the civil war,
by Nathan Forrest. He called his clan Kuklos Klan, mixture of Greek and
Scottish, Meaning "family circle". However the overwhelming violence of
this group, against federal soldiers and against blacks, Forrest disbanded
the Klan in 1869. In 1915, the Klan was reborn by William J. Simmons.
He called his group the Invisible Empire, The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
He started the Klan out of inspiration of "D.W. Griffith's book Birth of
a Nation", Which was about the Klan out the 1860's. He kicked off the new
Klan by burning a cross atop Stone Mountain in Georgia. This new version
of the Klan prospered and almost immediately brought about thousands of
members, spreading throughout the north and part of the northwest. By 1920
the Klan was very active in Colorado, Oregon, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Ohio, Penn., and New jersey. Their member had
also reach slightly over 3 million. They rode around late at night,
dressed in robes, and singling out black folks, Catholics, Jews, and any
other foreigner they felt like kick the shit out of. They would then threaten
their families, whip and beat them, set fire to their homes, and most likely
kill the man of the house. The reasoning behind these horrible acts? These
people where threatening the American why and we the Klan had to stop them.
After the U.S. passed the civil right act in 1875, the klan got angry and
reacted with even more violence across the south. By 1925 the Klan
had shrunk down to a mere fifty thousand members, by in 1926 the Klan was
involved in even more scandals and lost a great deal of their few remaining
members. However thought you can't openly see them the Klan has again gained
a massive amount of members and are not a force to be taken lightly.
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