History Of The Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan is commonly known as the KKK, which was an organization ran by white people who advocated white supremacy, anti-immigration and racial discrimination. The Ku Klux Klan was and still is a very racist group towards all skin colors other than white, but predominately there focus was on African Americans. Klan members were nervous of the uprising of African Americans after slavery had ended in the U.S in 1865. The Klan’s goal was to hate and terrorize African Americans, making them feel as if they do not belong in the United States (U.S). The dominate force the Klan used was terrorism, both physical assault and murder, by burning, shooting, and hanging. Since the first Klan originated in 1865, there have been 2 more to follow since then.

Before slavery was abolished, plantations and farms had patrols that rode on horses, making sure that if a slave had tried to escape, they would hunt he or she down and torture or kill the escaping slave worker. In the absence of slavery the KKK were the new “patrols.” The first Ku Klux Klan was founded by a group of Confederate veterans in Pulaski Tennessee in 1865, coincidental the same year when slavery was abolished in the U.S. The KKK was not connected with the law because slavery

Simmons, founded the second KKK, on top of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The film “The Birth of a Nation” was released, promoting that the KKK was revived. Between the years 1915 – 1925, the Klan adopted a business plan with the Klan, using full time paid recruiters to encourage others to become part of the KKK. The goal of the second Klan was to act as a reconstructed union that heavily supported white supremacy and to protect the interests of white womanhood. It’s popularity rapidly increased throughout the 1920s, because “its morally authorization views on issues such as prohibition, immigration, and interracial relationships shared much in common with the attitudes of many middle-class Americans.” (Keith S.