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Aside from murder and mayhem, the Ku Klux Klan didn't contribute to the Civil Rights Movement, in fact, they attempted to stop it. However, one could say the imagery of murderous terrorists hiding behind sheets caused the world, and the rest of the country to view the south in a terrible light, and as a result, caused more sympathy and support for the movement.
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∙ 13y agoUrged African Americans to protest racial violence. W. E. B. Du Bois, a founding member of the NAACP, led a parade of 10,000 African-American men in New York to protest such violence. Du Bois also used the NAACP's magazine, The Crisis, as a platform for leading a struggle for Civil Rights.
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∙ 14y agoTo date, the KKK has contributed nothing to any racial society, including their own. Protecting the rights of a very small minority (regardless of their rhetoric they do not represent the ideals of the majority of white Americans) at the expense of everyone else's rights is the antithesis of the foundation of the US. If you throw out the Bill of Rights, what do you have? Not the United States of America.
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∙ 13y agoThe KKK is dedicated to white supremacy; they believe that people of European descent are superior to all other types of people and deserve more privileges, power, and wealth. This is a form of collective selfishness.
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What was The third rise of the KKK was mostly a response to?
the civil rights movement (studyisland)
How do the actions of the KKK help to explain the rise in the civil rights movement?
by magic
Does the KKK kill whites to?
The KKK has killed white people. During the Civil Rights Movement, white people who supported the movement were killed as well.
What group is not for improving the civil rights of blacks?
The KKK
Which group terrorized blacks that attempted to claim the civil rights?
KKK
What Birmingham church exploded in the 1900s and why?
Actually it was in the 1960's and 3 little black girls died. It was an act done by the KKK in response to the civil rights movement.
What were 3 short term consequences of the Civil War?
600,000 deaths, civil rights was not established, the kkk
Who authored the book The Chamber?
John Grisham was the author of the book. The book is about a lawyer who fought in the Civil Rights Movement whose office was bombed by the KKK member. However, the lawyer began to doubt the guilt of the KKK member and ended up defending him.
What organization wanted to keep African Americans from voting and fought fr white rule?
This is the white supremacy movement and the KKK. These people are still active and want to remove civil rights.
What is the message in Mississippi burning?
The message was to show the cruelty that the AA went through despite the civil rights movement. Although the civil rights movement fought against segregation and for AA rights, it only did so legislatively, but that did not mean that it had an immediate effect in society, simply because the laws had changed. This became apparent in the many "political meetings" that they had involving the KKK, which was greatly supported in the south, in Mississippi.
Was the KKK successful in affecting alections?
NO
How does slavery and KKK go together?
Yes, the KKK wanted blacks to remain slaves. Violent upheavals occurred when blacks began to fight for their civil rights.
