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(Ku Klux Klan): Hate Groups In Arkansas

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The KKK (Ku Klux Klan) is one of the biggest hate groups in Arkansas. They've had a long history of violence.Even though black americans have been the Klan's primary target,they have also attacked Jews,immigrants,gays,lesbians,and intel recently Catholics. This group formed somewhere between 1865 and 1866 as a “Christian organization” in Pulaski, Tennessee.Nathan Bedford which is the first acknowledged leader of the group,took actions of the organization in 1869. Klan activity started occurring in 1915,states such as Arkansas were home to newly forming Klan groups during the 1920’s. The threat of school integration made new klan groups form by 1955.First actions of the Klan in Arkansas was in the Prescott,(Nevada County),December 1921. Shortly …show more content…

They effectively targeted Paragould (Greene County), Jonesboro (Craighead County), Harrison (Boone County), and Marshall (Searcy County) as sites where Klan activity was going on. Charles C. Alexander which is the first chartered Arkansas Klan organization was formed during the 1920’s in the Little Rock (Pulaski County). This group collected 7,800 male members during the zenith. The Little Rock Klan organization had so much power that they influenced local and county politics through “elimination primaries”. Little Rock was also home to the women's klan order that formed in 1923 an adjunct to the men’s group. Money troubles weakened the Little Rock Klan it was in troubles by 1926. The Great Depression weakened all Klans through the South,klan organization in Georgia stopped operations in 1944 due to tax …show more content…

They meet in a place in the woods where a big cross is,they also have torches and they set that cross on fire pretty much screaming “White Power”. The Klan believes that god has a plan for only them nobody else. They also believe that they should only have control over stuff. The KKK has no black to asian members its all white folks who believe that black people and white people are not relative at all,they also say that they need to love their own race not someone of other races. While Obama was in office most klan people thought that he was gonna start a war,they also think that white people are gonna be put in concentration camps. They think that the only way of making black citizens leave is by

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