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Terrorism In The 1970's

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Terrorism is the use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. People believe there can only be one type of form of terrorism but there are many different kinds. In the 1970’s there were researchers that started to look into the different types of terrorism. These terrorist started using skills such as hijacking, bombing, diplomatic kidnapping and assassinations. The researchers came up with five different types of terrorism which are domestic, global, state, religious and national.
Domestic terrorism is violence against people population and infrastructure of a nation, it’s often by the people of the nation and also by the influence national policy. RAN is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making though research and analysis. RAN states national security and critical infrastructure needs through objective research that helps government agencies and improves disasters preparedness response and recovery. The Ku Klux Klan in 1866 was known as domestic terrorism. The white racist group became violence against African Americans. The KKK developed in the South in the late 1860s, they decided to make their own colorful, costumes such as: robes, masks, and conical hats that were designed to hide their identities. As time went on they adopted a standard white costume, cross …show more content…

The government carries out terror tactics. They might be going against other nation’s interests, its own population or private groups or individuals viewed as dangerous to the state. In 1930 Stalin’s purges are examples of using machinery of the state to scare a population. The result actions were rigged show trials or opponents and punishing families and friends of suspected enemies. State supported terrorism is when the government supplies, training and other forms of support to non-state terrorism

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Numerous Confederate soldiers joined the KKK; therefore, they soon dressed as the Ghost of Confederate Soldiers. At first, they would patrol the roads and crash parties. They eventually realized that the freed black people were terrified of them and used this to control their behavior. They started seeing themselves as a law enforcers rather than law breakers. Their law enforcement was traveling at night and randomly beating people who didn't like the klan.

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Up until the Ku Klux Act, the Ku Klux Klan’s (KKK) influence spread throughout the Southern states and acted as a violent and driving continuation of the Confederate movement after the Civil War. It was created right after the Civil War by six Confederate Army veterans. Not only had the South just suffered their most humiliating military loss, but they also lost the institution of slavery, money, government power and beloved family members. As a result of their loss in the Civil War and the emancipation of their slaves, the Southern white man felt great embarrassment and humiliation. Though he could not preserve the institution of slavery, he now felt an obligation to preserve and reassert white supremacy.

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Terrorism was flourishing in 1960’s America. Nearly every chapter of this book documents acts of terrorism by white people against black people: a leader’s house bombed, a protestor’s face smashed, girls going to church blown up, and finally, of course, Martin himself getting assassinated. MLK Jr. was not a moderate, at least in the last few years of his life, post-1965. At this point, he observed that the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Act didn’t effect change of the type he was hoping for. He remained an advocate for nonviolence, but when riots broke out, he disclaimed their methods, but did not let society off the hook, claiming “riots are caused by nice, gentle, timid white moderates who are more concerned

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Founded in 1866, the (KKK) extended into virtually each southern state by 1870 and have become a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed toward establishing political and economic equality for blacks. Its members waged associate underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican leaders. Congress passed legislation designed to curb KKK, the organization saw its primary goal “the reestablishment of white supremacy” fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South within the decennary. Once an amount of decline, white Protestant nativist teams revived the KKK within the early twentieth century, burning crosses and staging

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When Confederate leaders rose back to power, this encouraged white southerners to become more open about their white supremacy, which created the KKK. The Ku Klux Klan mainly targeted blacks and the republicans who supported them. According to class notes on the KKK, they raided Freedman schools, invaded towns, tortured and murdered black families. African-Americans have tried to take a stand against this, but with involvement by the authorities and government make it challenging. “We find their deeds are perpetrated only upon colored men and white republicans...

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Through white supremacy, the Klu Klux Klan was born. During the 1920s, cultural conflict and modernization helped resuscitate the Ku Klux Klan. Whereas the original KKK was a violent, racist organization born in the post-Civil War South, the modern Klan was driven by somewhat different concerns. Many white, lower-middle-class, Protestant Americans in the North and Midwest were fearful that immigrants were changing traditional American

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Many people began to resent black Americans gaining power and success. Therefore, they began racist groups and passed laws to make sure black Americans were subordinate. The Ku Klux Klan was created by Confederate Army veterans who wanted to restore white supremacy. They used violence and threats to torture and kill many black Americans. The Black Codes were also put into place to limit the rights of black Americans.

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The KKK was founded in 1866 by Robert Shelton The KKK in the modern days only kill black people but the 1920 they did not kill only blacks the killed white people and black people that were not christian. There were some clans that they would fight that were cristan like the Crisps and the Memphis City. By 1920 the KKK killed 4 million people. They would start riots and go downtown holding a burning cross and pray around or with it. The KKK would pray in large fields and pray

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The organization waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed towards white and black Republican leaders. Historians generally classify the KKK as part of the post-Civil War insurgent violence related not only to the high number of veterans in the population, but also to their effort to control the dramatically changed social situation by using extrajudicial means to restore white supremacy. During the beginning stages of the Klan is when the members started wearing masks and dressed in the white robes to hide their identity and were designed to frighten the people. Members of the KKK claim that the robes represent the ghosts of the dead Confederate soldiers. Klan members carried out their attacks at nigh acting on their own but in support of the common goal of the group.

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He came to represent the troubles of the African Americans as they laughed in public and wept in their souls. This segregation gave way to White Supremacy groups that exist to conserve the social order that was established by the Jim Crow laws. The Ku Klux Klan is the most widely known of all the groups that came about in the period. The “Klan” as it is also known advocated extremist positions in the fields of white supremacy, white nationalism, and also anti-immigration. The first “Klan” flourished in the South of the United States of America in the late 1860s immediately after the Civil War.

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Racism in the 1920’s was widespread and inescapable for African Americans and other races as well as religions as they were terrorized and discriminated against persistently. A prime example of this discriminating was a group called the Klu Klux Klan, or the KKK. The first branch of the KKK was founded in 1866 by a group of former confederate veterans in Pulaski Tennessee. It first started as a social club for the group, but soon spread to over 4 million members across the United States by the mid 1920’s.

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Began in the Civil Rights Era 1950, blacks began to end the Jim Crow laws in the south that legally supported discrimination laws. Riots began to rise and that’s when the Ku Klux Klan came to full effect to attack against blacks movement. The man who got the Klan started was William Simmons, a former Methodist minister from Georgia. The KKK organization was most likely to make attacks on Catholics, Jews immigrants, then

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The Ku Klux Klan in the 1860s was a racist group towards African Americans. They set out to kill and harass African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan was only in the South at this time because slavery was legal there and very common. Since it was only in the South and only hated one race it did not last very long or spread through the country as much as the 1920s due to the restricted area were racism was legal. The Ku Klux Klan was reinvented in the United States in the 1920s.

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Perihan Amged Dr. Salwa Youssef ENG 102 18 April, 2015 Terrorism: Powerful Education is One Efficient Tool to Fight Terrorism: A Research Paper Outline I. Abstract: II. Introduction: A. Topic sentence: Terrorism is the danger alert of the century, which draws people’s attention nowadays to a very big extent. Terrorism is the unauthorized use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims. B. Historical background: a) Terrorism act actually began after the French revolution by Maxmilien Robespierre.

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The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by former Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee. Ku Klan is derivative of the Greek word “kyklos,” meaning circle. The creation of the Ku Klux Klan coincided with the second phase of post-Civil War Reconstruction, which was organized mostly by members of the Republican Party in Congress. Klan members wore white sheets or robes and masks to cover their identities. They used to march and ride horses at night threatening former slaves and make them believe that former Confederates are coming to reclaim their land.

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