Ku Klux Dbq

The Ku Klux Klan movement, and the Conjure religion, are both religious movements that focused on gaining power and control over another race, religion, or situation. However, the Ku Klux Klan movement and those who practiced Conjure had very different motivators. Conjure in the United States originated primarily in the South, and was practiced mainly by Black Americans. Black Americans, whose political and social personhood had been denied during the time of slavery in the South, used Conjure to gain a sense of power and protect themselves from White American masters. In the Race and New Religious Movements in the USA textbook, Document 2 of the Conjure Chapter spoke of a slave, Dinkie, who used Conjure to avoid lashings from the new overseer.

It lay there so long that the cloth rotted and a buggy driving over it tore it open and revealed gold coins” (Clark and Stoddard, Ch. 3. Then, the Doc. 4. The adage of the adage. To compare, the Ku Klux Klan movement is a terror movement that focused on taking power back from religions and races that threatened the original intention of America. Similar to how Black American’s who practiced Conjure wanted to take back their personhood from White Americans, which was taken from them through slavery, the Ku Klux Klan worked to take back the social and political privileges given to Black Americans after the Civil War. However, this was not due to a lack of privileges like those who practiced Conjure. The Ku Klux Klan formed due to the belief that America is intended to be governed by the White American Protestants only, and the new privileges given to Black American’s posed a threat to this belief. This specific aspect of the Ku Klux Klan movement is seen throughout the Ku Klux Klan Chapter, especially in Document 4, which stated “We believe that the pioneers who built America bequeathed to their own children a priority right to it, the control of it and its future” (Clark and Stoddard, Ch. 7. Then, the Doc.