Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan began in 1861 founded by six young college students, they believed in white supremacy and would use violence to get their point across African Americans. 1861, the beginning of a secret organization who believed in white supremacy and used violence to get their point across America. African American history has changed drastically by the acts of the Ku Klux Klan brought. Many died with their freedom at hand and many lived by the mercy of the K.K.K (Ku Klux Klan American History). There has been about four distinct time periods in which the organization K.K.K appeared in (Matthews). Studies show that in only one time period women were significant as members, but during all time periods, issues of women’s role came about maintaining the purity of women. It was said that six young college students were the founders of this newly developed Klan (Ku Klux Klan 19th Century). How was this possible? Well, these six college students enjoyed spending quality time with each other that on a particular occasions they would
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African American history has changed drastically. “The policies of reconstruction aiming to extend the rights of southern blacks had unintended effect of pushing hundreds of resentful and anxious veterans towards the Klan, “this soon brought a systematic policy of violence in opposition to the new social order”. (Ku Klux Klan 19th Century) The K.K.K was upset on the reason that the government was giving African Americans new rights and setting them free so they began to murder helpless African Americans. The Ku Klux Klan contemplated the murder of an African American man who begged for his life in 1871 organized in the south