The Klu Klux Kl The Resurgence

1760 Words4 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: The civil rights movement and race relations in America

KKK: The Resurgence The Klu Klux Klan was a terrorist group in 1865. They mostly targeted blacks, and people of different religion. They used different techniques of torture. The KKK did things like burn crosses, damaged people's property, and many other things to show people that they did not want them there. Sometime in the 1920’s the KKK starting showing up again but this time they came as people that no one would expect to see doing theses thing. The KKK used different means of advertising, they did not discriminate who they allowed in , and in some ways they much worse than they ever were before in 1865.
It wasn't until after World War I during the reconstruction era when the Klu Klux Klan rose again. They were back and better than …show more content…

Religious and civic groups launched campaigns to educate American society about the crimes and atrocities committed by Klansmen.” They tried everything in their power to make it seem like they were doing good. The klan went to schools, law firms, hospitals, city hall, and many more places where it was easy to get the word out about what they were doing.(Khan Academy). “The groups targeted by the Ku Klux Klan included African Americans, the 'New Immigrants', Jews, Catholics and any other groups who represented "un-American" values or beliefs such as organized labor.” Most people back then were racist so it was not hard finding people to join. Like mentioned before they moved from back and different religion people and other “easy” targets …show more content…

This event was a tragedy for the black population its was when the white men or slave mastersslavemasters would take the female slaves to the stables to rape them. This caused the light skin population to grow, and created more children to grow up to work in the house. ”An excuse to get rid of the negroes who were acquiring wealth and property……”. Slave Masters would use this to get more land with fact being the more land you have the more slaves you would need to work on it. This was the momentmonent they began creating more slaves. White southern slave masters still used the old ways to get slave lake buying them, trading, and the rest

Show More
Related

  • Why Did The South Kill Reconstruction?

    982 Words  | 2 Pages

    The KKK were Southerners, and also terrorists. They tried their hardest to destroy the Reconstruction and African American rights. I have a quote for my evidence. “The Klansman broke my door open, took my out of bed, took me to the woods and whipped me three hours or more and left me for dead,” (Colby 513). This proves the KKK would stop at nothing to destroy what they believed was wrong. Even though the KKK were a huge disruption in the Reconstruction, they didn’t completely destroy it. This helps me answer the question because it says that even though the KKK caused damage, it wasn’t all of

    Read More

  • Analysis Of Nat Turner's Revolt

    1681 Words  | 4 Pages

    It all began in the summer of 1831, a revolt consisting of African American slaves. A revolt put together by Nat Turner He thought of himself as a prophet and got signs from God. According to him, God showed him a vision of blood and of death. Tuner took this as a sign to go and kill all the whites. So he gathered many other slaves and they all went on a killing spree of murdering white men, women, and children. In the end the revolt was crushed and Turner was killed. That was not the end though. FEAR spread through the southern states. Laws more strict and harsh. The after effect may have been worse than the actual revolt. But the revolt goes deeper than that. The build up, the climax, and then the fall of the revolt. In the end the revolt

    Read More

  • Slavery in the Late 1700s and Early 1800s.

    820 Words  | 2 Pages

    During the period of time between 1789 and 1840, there were a lot of major changes occurring on the issue of slavery such as the impact it had towards the economy and the status of slaves in general. There were two types of African Americans slaves during the era, either doing hard cheap labor in a plantation usually owned by a white and being enslaved, or free. Undoubtedly, the enslaved African Americans worked vigorously receiving minimal pay, while on the other hand, the free ones had quite a different lifestyle. The free ones had more freedom, money, land/power, are healthier, younger and some even own plantations. In addition, in 1820 the Missouri compromise took into effect, which made it so states North of the 36°30′ parallel would be free and South would be slave and helped give way to new laws regarding the issue of slavery.

    Read More

  • Post-WWI American Society

    1118 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...manding, and we expect to win, a return of power into the hands of the everyday, not highly cultured, not overly intellectualized, but entirely unspoiled and not de-Americanized, average citizen of the old stock. The KKK has now come to speak for the great mass of Americans of the old pioneer stock" (Document D.) By 1923, Klan membership grew to five million. However, there was a sharp decline in members within a decade, showing how the new frameset of mind took over the old quickly. Accept the new, changing world around them. They represented the old, racist values long thought to have been delegated to the South.

    Read More

  • Tulsa Race Riots

    1511 Words  | 4 Pages

    Even though slaves had been free for almost sixty years, it was still hard to find well paying jobs in other areas nationwide. The lives of African Americans were so well established, the area was coined the “Black Wall Street of America”. You’d think with such well-rounded men and women that something like this would not happen just based on their skin tone, but that is far from true. Whites of the time were still extremely prejudice towards African Americans, despite the reputation they had. It was only a matter of time before something ignited the flame that had been burning for years.

    Read More

  • Reconstruction DBQ

    900 Words  | 2 Pages

    The black who were additionally emancipated were not financially stable because of the fact that they were never paid before. These issues caused major issues for the blacks in the Reconstruction Era because they were transitioning to a new life where they had to become independent and had equal right as everyone else. This was a major turning point and place of growth in the United States, but was additionally accompanied with major growing conflicts.

    Read More

  • The Reconstruction-Era

    724 Words  | 2 Pages

    ...and the public grew informed of the brutal acts. The African-Americans began to move West and by doing so, greatly reduced the white men's income and avenged their deceased friends.

    Read More

  • Ku Klux Klan In The Secret Society

    1205 Words  | 3 Pages

    We study the beginning of America and the movement of settlers into a new land. Then we look at the formation of the United States through the Revolutionary War. But nothing has ever changed this country from the inside as much as the Ku Klux Klan invasion into the country. The Klan’s influence and ability to cause destruction within a society inspired leaders and dictators such as Adolf Hitler. During the height of the Klan’s power and influence, it was doing many things right. It had attracted mass amounts of people with a simple message and used them to complete a secret agenda. Had the KKK continued to find new ways of bringing people to their cause and working to achieve superiority first, they may have caused an unforeseen amount of damage to the United States. Mistakes that were made by the members grew attention to them and caused society to see them as they were. The Ku Klux Klan of the modern day is still alive. It is barely breathing but growing and changing everyday. The hate will live on through the young, but the good people in the world are the key to truly changing the world for the

    Read More

  • Essay On The Ku Klux Kl Acting Out Of Hate

    964 Words  | 2 Pages

    The Ku Klux Klan is classified as a hate group who in their three summits in history forced blacks and other ethnic groups to live in fear that they did not deserve.

    Read More

  • The Civil Rights Movement: The Struggle Continues

    1177 Words  | 3 Pages

    White Southerners who hated blacks started the Ku Klux Klan in 1866. It was also called the KKK. They tried to stop black people from voting and having other civil rights. They would wear white sheets and masks with pointed hoods. They would beat up blacks and public officials. They would burn crosses by the houses of people they wanted to scare. The KKK was declared illegal in 1...

    Read More

  • Ku Klux Klan

    1000 Words  | 2 Pages

    I n 1921, the Klan was brought to trial for the murder of a black man who had been a known drunk in his hometown. Simmons, Klan leader, stepped up in front of congress and swore on the holy bible that the Klan “never had been and never will be involved in violent acts”.

    Read More

  • Essay On Ku Klux Klan

    1247 Words  | 3 Pages

    The Ku Klux Klan has existed since the mid nineteenth century. The Klan has had periods membership numbered in the millions, whereas nowadays they do not have as much influence as in the past.What has ceased to change is the media depicting the Ku Klux Klan as a hateful group of bigots wanting to solely wipe out any non-white race. However, the media has not only surfaced many misconception but they fail to realize that the Klan is actually within US Constitutional rights. Because the Bill of Rights guarantees American citizens the freedom of speech and to peacefully assemble, the Ku Klux Klan has the right to continue their practices. With that being said, excluding some violent outburst conducted by Klan subgroups, no one has the right to stop the KKK from protesting, speaking their beliefs, or celebrating their heritage.

    Read More

  • The Ku Klux Klan

    1407 Words  | 3 Pages

    In 1869 the Klan was disbanded by Forrest, this was the height of their membership with 500,00 members, because laws were created in the 1870’s to slow down their activities, such as the KKK Act and the Enforcement Acts, limiting their power in the south. Even though they were no longer active their threat was still lingering. They left a legacy in the United States of torture, havoc, white supremacy and black oppression that lasted for a century. The KKK were successful at achieving their goals of abolishing the Republicans ideas in the South and scaring many African Americans during the late

    Read More

  • Pros And Cons Of 1920's

    1298 Words  | 3 Pages

    Black workers who had been confined to the South began to move to cities in the north to escape segregation, sharecropping, and racial violence. Access to jobs, housing, and public facilities became a major source of friction between blacks and whites. African Americans settled in all-black neighborhoods, and the largest was Harlem. Although it was a violent decade for African Americans, a powerful sense of racial pride gave birth to the Harlem Renaissance, the first self-conscious literary and artistic movement in African American history. However, the great migration of African Americans and the increasing visibility of black culture discomfited some white Americans. In consequence, a new version of the Ku Klux Klan emerged mainly due to post-war depression in agriculture, migration, religious intolerance, and nativism. Klan members considered themselves defenders of Prohibition, traditional morality, and true Americanism, and they were not only anti-black, but also anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-Communist, anti-immigrant, anti-alcohol, and anti-science. By 1924, the Klan reached its peak in members and influence controlling 24 state legislatures. However, in 1925, after David C. Stephenson, one of the leaders, was accused of a serious crime, followed by the prosecution of many Klan-supported politicians on corruption charges, the majority of its members left the organization.

    Read More

  • How Did African Americans Treated In The Late 1800s

    296 Words  | 1 Pages

    The black communities thought that when slavery was abolished everything would change. That, however, did not happen. Some things did change but not as many as what was thought. There were still some things that would no be changed for many years. Men still could not own property, vote for their own leaders, or go anywhere the white men were allowed to go. As was the same for the black women. These men and women suffered through wars, beatings, and small rations of food, only to be treated no differently when they were supposed to be free.

    Read More

More about The Klu Klux Kl The Resurgence

Open Document