Ku Klux Klan

There were actually five presidents that were reportedly KKK members. President Warren G. Harding, President Woodrow Wilson, President McKinley, President Calvin Coolidge, and President Harry S. Truman. (It should be noted that historians at the Coolidge Presidential Library vehemently deny that he was ever a member; and the evidence about Harding is mainly based on rumor and innuendo, rather than documentable facts.)

The story in the case of Harry Truman, he was not really a very active member. He originally saw them as a patriotic organization, which was often how the Klan advertised themselves. Truman had a falling out with the Klan when he was confronted with their actual views; he openly spoke out against the group, and had death threats made against him for doing so. Truman's family denies he was ever a member, although the Klan has presented paperwork. There are many that feel the paperwork was falsified. I am thinking that it is not so much that it is ignored, but since it is not a concrete fact, it remains little known.

its headhunt

None. He wasn't in the Klan.

it was very strong that it changed the U.S : they stopped meeting and tried to get them to not have righes to vote

american party (know-nothing party), ku klux klan, and workingmen's party.

The Klan claimed to have have millions of members in the 1920s. The claimed membership numbers are always suspect because the Klan tried to exaggerate its size and power as part of it intimidation.

The following article was published in Workers Vanguard No. 722, 29 October 1999. WV is the biweekly newspaper of the Spartacist League/U.S., American section of the ICL.

New Yorkers came out in their thousands on October 23 determined to make sure the KKK didn?t ride in their city. They were mobilized by the call initiated by the Partisan Defense Committee, ?All Out to Stop the KKK on October 23!? Hundreds of working people, students and others joined in distributing 175,000 of the PDC?s mobilizing leaflet in workplaces, campuses and neighborhoods throughout the city.

Thousands came out in defiance of the efforts of the Giuliani administration, its cops and the courts to deny their right to mobilize to stop the Klan. They came out in opposition to appeals by the phony ?friends of labor? in the Democratic Party and self-appointed spokesmen for the black population who preached a ?demonstration for tolerance? for the ?rights? of the KKK. They knew this wasn?t an issue of ?free speech? but of stopping Klan terror and murder. They came out to drive the Klan lynchers off their streets. And that?s exactly what they did. :)

The above answer is totally out of context, as the question is about Klan activities in the 19th century, not the 20th!!!

To answer the question, YES, the KKK was active in the North during the period after the ACW, and the state with the most membership in the North was Indiana, with Ohio running a close second. In NYC the Klan was a annual part of many public parades and festivals, with up to 5,000 men marching and on horseback, in full regalia.

You have to remember that at that time, the prevailing attitude was against blacks, and there were not many Americans who would speak out for equal rights, that came about 100 years later, in the 1960's with the enactment of federal Civil Rights legislation, by President Lyndon Johnson.

In the years proir to 1917 the KKK organized itself against immigrants coming here that were illiterate...............In 1917 congress overrode a veto by Woodrow Wilson and it was inacted that there be a ''literacy test'' that immigrants would have to pass to enter the US.The reason being that the language barriors were exhausting as well as well as the impact it had on the competition of factories bidding for jobs..........Educated immigrants were more desirable as employees but the real reason behind it was that the bids of uneducated employees could be lower because they could be taken advantage of due to their demising situation..........the immigrants were taking Americans jobs and forcing the pay to be low so as it is today..........In 1952 this ''literacy test'' was abolished and now here we are losing jobs and factories...........not due to the government but because of the REMOVAL of this ACT OF CONGRESS...not everything the KKK has done has been objectionable........

They would burn a cross as a form of intimidation.

The aim of the first KKK was to increase white power and prevent Republicans from obtaining power.

he was a good man

CSA Civil War veterans Major James R. Crowe, Captain John Lester, John Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard Reed and Frank O. McCord.

It opposed the movement.

Because it was important to her

Actual lynching by the KKK is very rare nowdays, but it was done often in the reconstruction era to intimidate Republicans into not voting.

an increase in racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity

yes, but it was not as bad as in the south.

The Klan of the 1920's was revived largely to protect and defend state wide alcohol prohibition in Georgia. However, interest in the Klan had earlier been stimulated by the film "Birth of a Nation."

They burn crosses talk about what they have done to black people and drink beer this goes on all night

yes there are but we really don't know who and what part they are in

The purpose of the original KKK, founded by Nathan Bedford Forrest, 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 after viewing the film, Birth of a Nation, which glorified the history of the Klan. The new Klan was not only anti black, but anti Jewish, anti foreign, and anti-Catholic. 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. The Klan declined in power when the Grand Dragon, was found guilty of second degree murder in the death of a young women whom he had taken to Chicago with him. In an attempt to lessen his sentence, Grand Dragon David Stephenson turned over evidence to the government revealing the corruption of the Klan, the names of politicians the Klan had bribed, and other illegal activities of the organization. In the 1960s, the KKK briefly rose again to try and oppose 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.

The Ku Klux Klan was started by a group of six plantation owners, in Tenessee.

Abraham Lincoln was NEVER rich. In his earlier years, he was an unsuccessful merchant. He became a lawyer, but never amassed wealth. His assassination while President preventing him from "cashing in" on his fame.

alot, they s..... h..... you. they k... you

yes the stone mountain is owned by kkk.

Lynching was a practice by the Ku Klux Klan as an act of violence to kill people. The people who were victims of the KKK lynching were black people, Catholics, Jewish people, and any other person who opposed the racist beliefs or practices of the radicals.