Klu Klux Klan Research Paper

The Klu Klux Klan (KKK or the Klan) is an American Born racist terrorist organisation born just after the American war and still going today. The KKK used terror through actions intended to harm black American civilians (blacks)as well as foreigners and Jews in order to intimidate them and to re-institute white supremacy. The KKK was born just after the American Civil War in Tennessee, a state situated deep in the southern part of America, which was teeming with veteran confederates opposed to the emancipation of black slaves and the big social changes the republicans were introducing under Abraham Lincoln. The KKK terrorized America in three distinct movements each independent of each other although all with the same general aim. The First

However by 1870 the Klan was disbanded and slowly but surely disintegrated. 45 years later in 1915 the KKK was refounded in Atlanta, Georgia. The movement was started by white protestants fantasizing the pre-Civil War South This movement supported “One Hundred Percent Americanism”, this second movement was not only racist to black people but also terrorized Jews, foreigners and Roman Catholics. The third movement emerged in 1950 as the opposition to the civil rights movement.

On December 24 1865, six studied veterans of the confederate army created what was later to become America’s biggest terrorist organisation. The birth of the Klan came during the reconstruction of the Southern States of America directly after the American civil war where the confederate Southern States had lost the

Due to the huge immigration of Catholics and Jews from Europe as well as the urbanisation of blacks from the southern and northern parts of America social tensions were high thus when the new Klan was inaugurated in 1915 based on the ideology of the first Klan it became a huge organisation boasting an estimated 4 million supporters by 1925.This movements ideology was “One Hundred Percent Americanism”, this Klan did not only terrorize black people but also terrorized Jews, foreigners and Roman Catholics as well strongly supporting the prohibition laws. This version of the Klan also employed terroristic tactics in order to protect their ideology. The Klan strongly opposed bootleggers and in 1922 two hundred klansmen organised a raid on the bootlegger saloons in Arkansas setting fire and using explosives to bring down the saloons. The Klan, like its predecessor, was racist and wanted to achieve white supremacy, they to used terror to suppress black Americans of their rights, in Alabama 1927 the KKK unleashed terror on the citizens by targeting and intimidating blacks and in some instances whites through assault and vandalism who they deemed to have violated their own opinion of racial norms by being friends with a person from another race or partaking in activities historically done by the other race. The second