Did you know? The KKK was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865. It started as a social club for confederate soldiers, and then developed into a terrorist organization. The KKK was able to commit such terrible acts of violence without impunity because southern communities were afraid of the violence turning on them, people in southern communities wanted to be accepted, also, the KKK had power over the people in the south. Southern communities were afraid of violence turning on them. The Ku Klux Klan had so much control they could go to people’s stores and they would automatically open them. The store owners would give them a rope, at each store they went to each rope was coiled for them. They then went on to hang an innocent man in public showing their faces so everyone would know who did it. By doing this the KKK is trying to put fear in the community and to …show more content…
“We knew what the Klan was, and often had a pretty good idea of who its members were. We also knew what the Klansman would do to us it they could get away with it.” a young civil rights activist said. This shows that in their daily lives and interactions people in southern communities new who the Klansman were. But wanted to keep quiet and not say anything about it with fear of being rejected by the community or had to face the Klan. The Ku Klux Klan had power over people in the south. They posted threats in new papers about who their next victim was and got away with it easily. In one it was as casual as talking about what was going on with their peaches, to a death threat. This shows me how causal and how much of normal subject, it was. People were scared of the KKK they were able to control people to get them to do what they want because of what they have done to other people. For example William Luke was a white man who stood up for what he believed in and spoke out against the Klan, for doing so he was murder by the