THE KKK
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- Created on: 14-12-17 11:38
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- THE KU KLUX KLAN
- WHO WERE THE KKK
- the kkk were a fascist group consisting of white people.
- their aims were white nationalism supremacy and anti immigration
- they were anti-semitic-anti catholic and often used terrorism to instill fear into others
- the kkk are three distinct movements preaching similar aims.
- the kkk were a far right wing organization who still believed in the power of slavery
- when were they founded
- the first Klan was founded in the 1860s and were aiming to overthrow the republican government during the reconstruction era and died out in 1870
- the second Klan was founded in 1915 and was even more worse than their predecessors and had burned crosses and had taken a more different approach
- their third and current Klan was created after world war two although it was smaller than the recent Klan's it was more potent and dangerous. They are classified as a hate group by the anti-defamation league
- WHAT WERE THEIR AIMS
- they aimed to reinstate white supremacy by intimidating other races or groups of belief
- they aimed to keep black people under their control as it was like in the times of slavery and in its early stages it often contained clergymen.
- the KKK are a group that also aim to keep immigration at a minimum and often do marches in order to keep it that way by intimidating other ethnicitys
- what strategies did they employ
- the Klan often used violence and murder as a means of control since it was quick and sent out a message
- the Klan often contained law enforcement and politicians and even then alot of them gave the Kan a blind eye so the Klan continued with out prosecution
- what did the government do to stop them
- the government hardly intervened in the activities of the Klan since many politicians in the government were members of the KKK so they were given certain benefits
- eventually the government passed enforcement acts which enabled black people certain rights and laws and also protected them
- the fourteenth amendment made sure that African Americans were accepted as citizens into america
- the fifteenth amendment made sure that black people were given the same laws as whites and that those laws were protected and also banned racial discrimination
- WHO WERE THE KKK
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