The KKK
Kyle Newcomb, Muhammad
Khaku, Oneil Aujla, Derek
Ferchoff, Shamil Devji
What does KKK mean?
•  Ku Klux Klan
•  Derived from the Greek word kuklos
i.  Meaning circle
What are the KKK’s ideals?
•  White Supremacy
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Pursued the segregation of “minorities” and against all
immigration
Chose to attack under cover of darkness
Radical in the political ideals
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Political in the broadest sense
“One Hundred Percent Pure Americanism”
Against Republicans
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ii. 
Murdered both white and black republicans
Terrorized republicans to not vote
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Desegregation
iv.  Oppose civil rights movement
•  Anti-Catholicism
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Directly appealed to white Protestants
What did they do?
•  Terrorism tactics to reduce immigration and
reduce rights of “minorities”
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Tying up people to crosses and burning them alive
Taking the heads of people that they killed
Leaving the bodies on the roads
Burning houses with people in them
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People paid to be initiated and for the regalia
Got millions of people to sign up
•  People who weren’t part of the KKK sometimes
used the regalia to perpetrate acts of cowardice
•  Second Klan was less murderous than the first
Who leads the KKK?
•  No true official leader
i.  Composed of small chapters
•  Started by mostly Confederate
veterans who had old grudges
i.  Brigadier general George Gordon
developed the Prescript
ii.  General Nathan Bedford Forrest was
Grand Wizard
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Claimed to be their natural leader
None of the Klans acknowledged his role
Second Klan
•  The second klan was inspired by the
“The Birth of a Nation”
i.  This movie glorified the first KKK
•  William J. Simmons started the new
klan on Stone Mountain
•  Got about 15% of the “eligible”
populace to join
Second Klan Downfall
•  Dr. Sam Green was Grand Dragon
i.  He basically single-handedly brought
the destruction of the Second Klan
ii.  Was caught for raping and murdering a
woman in Indiana
What did others do about the KKK?
•  Black people started to make armed
militia to protect their towns form the
KKK
•  The government started making an
anti-ku klux resistance
What happened to the KKK now?
•  Still mainly stationed in the Southern
States of America
•  Composed of multiple small chapters
•  Officially titled as a terrorist
organization
•  Numbers are rapidly dropping
•  Making bonds with neo-nazis
References
•  http://answers.yahoo.com/question/
index?qid=20110416175105AAnBUi8
•  http://www.history.com/topics/ku-kluxklan
•  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ku-klux-klan