During the 1920s, in the United States of America, a group called the Ku Klux Klan, an anti-black organization, utilized violence and acts of terror in order to maintain white supremacy and a strict racial hierarchy. They justified these actions through the belief of the Pseudoscience of Social Darwinism and Eugenics. The Klansman believed that blacks and immigrants were diluting the image of “racial purity” of American society and they perceived it, due to their moral yardstick, as their duty as the defenders of society to maintain the purity of the “supreme” race emphasized by Eugenics. (1) (2)
The Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist organization which began after the civil war, its member’s aims were to suppress the African Americans into a permanent state of subjugation to whites and maintain the existing racial hierarchy. By the 1920s it had evolved into a national organization, with the majority of its members being protestant middle class men striving to be seen as patriotic, privileged saviors of their country. (1)
The Ku Klux Klan followed a rule book known as the Kloran – which contained the beliefs that shaped the fundamentals of the Klan. From the opening of the Kloran: “We avow the distinction between the races of mankind as same has been decreed by the Creator,
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This concept was used to argue that slavery was good, which reinforced the Ku Klux Klan’s belief the subjugation of African Americans to whites and fight for the continuation of slavery. Over 1000 skulls were collected for this experiment yet his methods were seen as biased and based on illogical information, thus categorizing it as a pseudoscientific experiment.