Revival of the Ku Klux Klan: The 1920s Era

Many of us know the Ku Klux Klan as a group who used violence and cruelty to daunt former slaves. What people often do not know is that the Ku Klux Klan made its comeback in the early 1920’s. This version of the Ku Klux Klan focused on the moral and ethical wrong doing. Although the terror was still brought on the minorities. Many of the three-million members of the Klan took part in rallies, parades, and they even advocated for republican candidates during elections. Women also played a bigger role in the Klan, considering they began receiving the right to vote. They even went as far as to create the Women’s Ku Klux Klan (WKKK). Their views matched the men of the Klan at most times, but they also sought to fix things in the sphere of education and children. Some parts of the Women’s Ku Klux Klan found homes for youth and raised money for less fortunate families in the Klan. These women mostly took ideas of the men of the Klan and did their own work on that

She helped in the second upbringing of the Klan. She was a scandalous women and was said to have taken more than 70% percent of the Klan’s fees in Atlanta, Georgia upfront. Although this may be true she participated in activities that actually seemed to help the better good. Even though it might have only helped the majority of the whites at the time she took part in things like helping young children, promoting healthy living, and the prohibition of alcohol. While doing this good she still kept the same views as the original Ku Klux Klan and even brought it bigger attention including discrimination against other religions and racial classes, anticommunist approaches, and reinforcing anti-Catholic views. Elizabeth’s influence in the Klan became so big that the men began to see that there would soon be a break in the all-male Klan. Because of this a leader appointed her to be the head of the new Women’s Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta,