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Running head: The rise and fall of the Klu Klux Klan
The rise and fall of the Klu Klux Klan
The infamous Ku Klux Klan was the most influential hate group during the 1920's. Its membership augmented to nearly three million members. The klan focused to isloate non-whites and other religious groups from the rest of American society. The klan was a hate group and illustrated their odium by killing thousands of people and destroying the lives of many others. The klan was based in the South, but spread their hate across America.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the label of several past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated what is generally perceived as white supremacy, antisemitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence and acts of pressure such as cross burning to tyrannize African Americans and other groups.
The Klan's first personification was in 1866. Established by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. The KKK quickly adopted violent methods. A rapid reaction set in, with the Klan's guidance disavowal violence and Southern elites seeing the Klan as an excuse for federal troops to continue their activities in the South. The organization was in decline from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed in the ...