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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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Why were the KKK so widespread in the south?
The KKK, also known as the Ku Klux Klan, was so popular, because everyone already hated the African American. Everybody thought they were useless just like the JEws during Hitlers time. It was as if they thought the KKK was doing them a favor by getting rid of the useless and unwanted African Americans. As everyone knows the KKK kills African Americans.
What kind of people could join the KKK?
People with racist views and, during the 1920s, those who strongly supported National Prohibition and its (illegal) enforcement by the Klan.
What was the impact of the KKK to the African Americans?
The KKK used fear as a tool keep blacks in America changing their social status they were given after slavery.
Yes, very true. So when people ask you "why are black people behind economically?" think about the south. blacks were developing businesses
in places like Mississippi, but they were terrorized, pre-taliban.
So, then you have a great exodus from the south to the north, where oppression
is different, more 'social' than outright violent. This had a great impact on creating
a strong foundation for blacks to capitalize off of.
What was the main reason the KKK started?
The klan was formed in the 19th century In USA to resist the emancipation of slaves there.
How did the KKK expand its membership in the 20's?
By scraping the bottom of the barrel! All they had to look for was anyone who was a slow thinker without any real friends who couldn't make an honest living. Today we call them losers. In the old days they got a sheet and a whip and made you call them "sir". Thank God for civilization.
How do you become a KKK member?
ARE YOU JUST AN IDIOT OR YOUR HATRED FOR HUMANITY OVERWHELMS YOUR MIND. G-d created this entire world what gives you the right
How is the KKK protected by the first amendment?
Well cops and stuff really can't arrest them unless they do something wrong or if they are in the middle of handling another crime and happen to run across something that the KKK are doing that is bad.
Nobody knows. The KKK was a secret organization that wanted to inflate its perceived strength and power. Therefore, it was often happy to take credit for murders or other acts of violence committed by others
What led to the Ku Klux Klan's growth and decline in the 1920s?
While Klan policies were never a strong suit they are not what really led to their decline. Opponents of the Klan simply hit them where it hurt. Sending individual Klan members to jail for their crimes didn't do anything to destroy the larger organization, so civil suits were filed against the organization. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_ku_klux_klans_policies_and_action_lead_to_rapid_decline_in_popularity_during_the_late_1920"
Why is KKK considered a terrorist group?
The KKK is considered a terrorist organization because they have commited several crimes including, hate crimes, murders, massacres, and hostages. The reason you didn't know this is because people in the KKK are high members of society and they can get away from many things.
Here are other reasons
- They wanted to re establish the black labor force (slaves)
- They made other hate groups make a name for themselves
- They killed over 3300 in The Tuskegee Institute alone
The KKK was an pseudo-lodge imitating the Knights of Malta. They held not a glimmer of The Great Work nor The Great Truth.
In fact their philosophy is nothing but "Survival-of-the-fittest\mob-rule" via racism.
I suppose that if you wish to dignify them with a tribal name, they are the Redneck tribe.
The KKK discriminated against Black people, Jews, Catholics, Republicans, carpetbaggers, scallawags, and many more groups/cultures/races. The Klan of the 1920s strongly supported Prohibition and attacked moonshiners and bootleggers.
What are the ranks of the KKK?
Imperial wizard- president
Grand kaliff or magi- vp
grand titan- capt of a individual group
knighthawk- head of security
grand cyclopes- enforcer
giant- security officer
klansmen- soldier
ghoul-prospect
How did the film the birth of a nation portray the ku klux clan?
They were seen as the "good guys" defending the civilian populace from rampaging blacks. Criticism of this portrayal of the KKK led to Griffith making "Intolerance" as a form of apology.
The Ku Klux Klan hung or slaughtered black people due to their skin color. The white supremacists believed that black people were inferior and barbaric, and that they didn't know how to properly live.
The blacks who had been slaves prior to the Civil War represented an economic threat beyond their loss as cheap labor. In times of hardship and limited resources, the advancement of blacks (promoted by Congress and the North) meant less for the white population. As with many other cases throughout history, the blacks and whites were two competing economic groups. One was historically impoverished, and the other one made so by the War. The fact that most ex-slaves were easily distinguished from whites made racism simple to practice, as was the segregation that followed in its place.
Well its because some people are dumb like that, and they are kinda like Hitler who thinks one race is better than the other races of the world and they don't think some deserve to live. Hitler deserved to live only if he didnt kill people and hit on Jewish people and mentaly retarded people. The KKK thought that black people are weird and shouldn't live on the earth, and Im Asian and I think everyone should live and everyone is equal thus searching up KKK finding a site saying white people should be the only ones living I find that some people are idiots. No offence to white people or any races that think Whites should live on the world and no one else. God MADE us different the same colours, but people moved and their skin colour changed, thus making us white black yellow or Asian and natives. The KKK just didn't get they were being cocky about their race eventhough everyone is equal...
What date was the KKK created?
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present secret domestic militant organizations in the United States, originating in the southern states and eventually having national scope, that are best known for advocating white supremacy and acting as terrorists while hidden behind conical hats, masks and white robes. The KKK has a record of terrorism, violence, and lynching to intimidate, murder, and oppress African Americans, Jews and other minorities and to intimidate and oppose Roman Catholics and labor unions.
1st Klan 1865-1870s
2nd Klan 1915-1944
3rd Klan since 1946
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.
How did groups like ku klux klan and the white league influence politics in the 1870s?
They used violence and terror to control elections.
How many people are in KKK today?
I'm not positive but I go to school in Pulaski, where the KKK started, and they still march. Not many of them march here, but there are still some around.
Sad, isn't it?
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In 2008 about 6,000 where still around.
Those guys are really scary.
What was the original purpose of the KKK?
as we see in antilbellium history the original purspose of the KKK was to oppress blacks and maintain white supremcy but suck them wiggers.
Who is the first president of KKK?
Brian A. Scates was voted in 1867 to be the first President and leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
