Ku Klux Klan In The 1900's

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In the early 1900’s there was a voter registration drive for the Council of Federated Organizations. This drive was not easy concerning to the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK was a white supremacy group whose main goal was to eliminate the Republican party. The Ku Klux Klan spread rapidly in the late 1900’s which lead to more violence.College students and even teenaged students was getting into the whole racial things and influenced college students who studied the murderers of 4 innocent students. The church the young men attended was attacked at nights around midnight during a night service for a murder that was never solved.There was around 10 people who was beaten but the 4 young men was not there they was in Oxford Ohio training a freedom summer …show more content…

Groups such as the KKK was a white supremacy group who intentions was to kill everybody who believed differently the what they did.Over the years the KKK spreaded all over the southern states and Mississippi came one of the most violent and had the most killings in the whole America. One of the most known murder was the murder of 4 civil right workers only 3 bodies was found, James Chaney ,Andrew Goodman and Micheal Schwerner. They was murdered by the knights of the KKK and the Neshoba County Sheriff’s Office and the Philadelphia ,Mississippi Police department was involved in the incident.The KKK was looking to eliminate the 3 young men the night before the Philadelphia police found them the KKK and the police at the time was working together almost the KKK had attacked a church in Meridian Mississippi looking for the 3 young men but the beat and almost killed around 10-12 innocent people but it was not the men they were looking for. The 3 men where in Ohio on a trip hiring freedom summer workers to try and end all these racial things.Later that night the men found out about the attack and decided to come home and see what happened. The men were pulled over speeding by the sheriff’s department and the men was supposed to be put in jail but the men was no longer been reported …show more content…

The FBI caught on to the murders and found out it was 4 victims but only 3 was found it took them 2 weeks to find out that the Philadelphia police had a major part and the KKK had the main part in the murder.The FBI and the Oxford Police found the 3 young man beaten and buried around 10 miles away from the Jail where they was suppose to be instead of murdered. Edgar Ray Killen was a part of the KKK and was a suspect in the 3 murders charged with 3 accounts of manslaughter and was sentenced for 60-150 years in prison for the murder of 3 young men who was trying to do what they believed in and trying to help the community in any way they can.The 3 victims was James Chaney,Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were all civil rights activist and freedom summer workers on the move in all the northern states trying to find new members but lost their life doing

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