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Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) or the "the Klan" is the extremist right wing secret society in the US that opposes black emancipation, asserts white supremacy, and democratic rule through terrorism and violence.
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What were the names of the civil rights workers murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1964?
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Scherner
What is the KKK famous for doing?
The Ku Klux Klan are well known in America for the racist acts that white Americans did to the Black Americans, because they would track down these people and torture them then eventually kill them because the white Americans believed that they were more superior than the black Americans so they did this to try and prove this point. Additionally, they harassed what they called white sympathizers.
On my own behalf its just a bunch of murderous idiots that didn't have anything better to do }=(
How did the first ku klux klan end?
KKK never really ended, they just hid under rocks until the hullabaloo passed then every decade or so, they just come and go according to the attitude of the minorities. If their acting up the KKK shows up until they calm down and accept their rightful place as inferior to the white race.
Is the Ku Klux Klan democratic?
Their entire organization was/is based on white supremacy. They were about as racist as it got.
Should the Ku Klux Klan be allowed to burn cross at a rally?
Legally they're allowed to burn what they wish. They're breaking no known laws. If the burning violates any fire ordinances then no such burning should be allowed. As long as no one is being hurt, burned or anything of the sort, the burning of a cross would be protected as free speech (even reprehensible speech is still protected).
There are conditions under which the burning of a cross could cross the line into being an overt threat and could be prohibited on that basis. That would probably only be the case if it was done in a location or near a location that was culturally significant - such as adjacent to an African-American church or in a park in a predominantly African American community.
Of course placing a burning cross in someone's yard is not "at a rally" and is most certainly both offensive and an overt threat and can (and should) be prosecuted.
Why did the KKK try to prevent African Americans from voting?
The KKK wanted to maintain white power and feared that African Americans would vote for the Republican Party. The Klan was able to create one-party rule in the South that lasted for nearly 100 years.
No everyone there is bad but some people like to take their dislikes for another person or even another race to another level. Nathan Bedford Forrest started it even through he didn't support the idea of lynching by KKK members and believed that the Klan was a noble and honorable group. However the modern day group has extremely evil ways and their beliefs that are now practiced should not be followed.
Yes, there are still active members of the KKK, but you don't hear about them as often because they do a lot less manslaughter. There are currently about 7,000 members in the Klan.
Why did the KKK disband in 1869?
because of the extreme violence. he didnt support the lynching of African Americans.
What did members of groups such as the ku klux klan and the white league believed?
White were superior to African Americans
What organization used violence to intimidate people?
One organization that has used violence within the U.S. is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). They've used violent tactics to intimidate minorities, mostly African-Americans, from exercising their constitutional rights.
What was some of the KKK achievements?
The Ku Klux Klan was originally a social fraternity, organized by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Empire, in 1867. The purpose of the KKK soon developed into a paramilitary force used to oppose the Republican governments set up in the old Confederate States and used to stop Freedmen (ex-slaves) from voting, attempting to register to vote, and from trying to hold elective offices in the southern states. When the KKK became too violent, Forrest ordered it disbanded, but the violent element in the KKK continued, until the government passed the Force Acts and the Klan was extinguished in 1872. In 1915, William Simmons founded the twentieth-century version of the KKK. The Klan actually became a respected part of the Democratic Party and reached its peak of political power in the 1920s, when membership may have been as high as 4.5 million, including many prominent business and political leaders. In the 1960s, the KKK briefly rose again to try and opposed the Civil Rights movement. After numerous deaths and disappearance of civil rights workers in the South, and the burning of black churches, and the passage of the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, the Klan fell apart. Today, there are small splinter groups of the KKK but no one large national organization.
What kind of people were in the KKK?
The (ignorant) KKK don't like- African-americans, Jews, catholics, (illegal) immigrants, homosexuals, and several other social types.
Honestly, I think they are ignorant and stupid redneck white trash Americans who don't think. They just make up stupid ideas about other people's way of life.
Okay, judging by this response the guy above was NOT from the south. The KKK was originally made by white men angry that the south had lost the war and the blacks HAD RIGHTS. The KKK has their own religion, if someone does not fit their description of a human or is not in their religion, they are sinners and should die.
The KKK originated in May 1866.
Who were the confederate soldiers that formed the KKK?
The first Imperial Wizard was a Southern General and no doubt many ex army ended up as members.
The KKK is the Ku Klux Klan. They are a group of white (usually men) people that used to try to keep Blacks from voting. That was back around when Lincoln and Jackson were president. Blacks were so intimidated by them that once they did have the right to vote, htey never did.
Why was the KKK powerful in 1870?
Local governments did not do much to stop the voilence of the group.
Why do people still join the KKK today?
Fear mostly. A lack of understanding or a feeling of being pushed into the background and becoming a minority for most, in others it has become a cultural thing, a shared belief amongst a group of people that was embedded in their upbringing.
Our nation's top historians reveal that the Democratic Party gave us the Ku Klux Klan, Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws and other repressive legislation which resulted in the multitude of murders, lynchings, mutilations, and intimidations (of thousands of black and white Republicans). On the issue of slavery: historians say the Democrats gave their lives to expand it, the Republicans gave their lives to ban it.
The Democrats:
- Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
- Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
- Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery.
- Democrats supported and passed the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
- Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
- Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
- Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, is well known for having been a "Kleagle" in the Ku Klux Klan.
- Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, personally filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14 straight hours to keep it from passage.
- Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws enacted by Republicans.
- Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a "yellow dog" than vote for a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
- Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first appointment to the Supreme Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of Alabama.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt's choice for vice president in 1944 was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a federal law against lynching.
- Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed forces.
- Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
- Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
- Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
- Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor, in Birmingham, Ala., unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights demonstrators.
- Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were fighting.
- Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox "brandished an ax hammer to prevent blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
- Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there would be segregation forever.
- Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public schools.
- Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
- Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by the FBI.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton's mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright, an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
- Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
- Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.
Democrats opposed:
- The Emancipation Proclamation
- The 13th Amendment
- The 14th Amendment
- The 15th Amendment
- The Reconstruction Act of 1867
- The Civil Rights of 1866
- The Enforcement Act of 1870
- The Forced Act of 1871
- The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
- The Civil Rights Act of 1875
- the-freedmen-s-bureau
- The Civil Rights Act of 1957
- The Civil Rights Act of 1960
- The United State Civil Rights Commission
The Republicans:
- Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950's and 1960's, over the objection of Democrats.
- Republicans founded the HBCU's (Historical Black College's and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the Democrats.
- Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation in Congress.
- Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
- Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation from the 1860s through the 1960s.
- Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to desegregate the schools.
- Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois, not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil rights laws of the 1960's.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited discrimination in housing.
- Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by Dr. King on Washington.
There are huge historical events that have been warped to fit the liberal agenda. Most blacks were originally Republicans , because it was Republicans who led the movement to put an end to slavery. It was the GOP that, for the next 100 years, kept introducing the Civil Rights legislation that was repeatedly shot down by the Democrats.
It was the Republican platform that had anti-lynching legislation, anti-poll tax legislation, public accommodation legislation, etc. The Republican platform in 1956 endorsed Brown vs. Board of Education. The Democratic platform did not - in fact, in 1956 they ran a segregationist on their ticket.
"All the segregationists were Democrats, and they were not conservative Democrats - like we're always told,"
Back then, the Civil War happened because the South thought that slaves were OK. When the KKK started acting up, no one really got in trouble because some sheriffs and people in high places were also in the Ku Klux Klan.
What does the Ku Klux Klan do today?
Members of the current KKK run around neighborhoods late at night putting pamphlets on your driveway advertising the KKK.
•The KKK is a group of people who believe in "racial purity" and "sexual purity". Meaning that they believe that only members of the same race and opposite sex should
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Did the KKK hurt children and women?
They harmed people by burning crosses onAfrican Americans lawns. the only way they harmed them was because 1 fire can start another fire and maybe that fire could lead to so many other fires it could catch the house on fire , maybe even the town
Why did the KKK reemerge during the 1920's?
The KKK reemerged in 1915 after the movie Birth of a Nation portrayed clan members as heroes after the civil war. The KKK urged bootleggers to go back to clean living and began targeting Catholics and the Jewish.
How many people did the KKK hang in the 1920's?
No one knows the exact number, but they included moonshiners and bootleggers because of the Klans strong support for National Prohibition.
