KKK
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- Created on: 09-02-13 22:02
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- Who were the Klu Klux Klan?
- Origins
- set up in the 1860s by soldiers who had fought in the American Civil War
- 'The Birth of the Nation' a film showed the Klan saving white people from black criminals.
- Reinforced idea of white supremacy in 1915
- Beliefs
- Terrorised black people newly freed from slavery
- WASP's (White Anglo Saxon Protestants)
- Saw themselves as superior to others
- Anti-communist, anti-black, anti-jew, anti-catholic, against all foreigners
- Organization
- Wore white sheets and wore white hoods
- Conceal identity of members who often attacked at night
- White colour of uniform symbolised white sumpremacy
- Carried American flags and lit burning crosses
- Wore white sheets and wore white hoods
- Membership
- In 1920 they had 100,000 members
- By 1925 they claimed to have more than 5 million members
- Most members were white, protestant and racist.
- Activities
- Lynching of black people
- Stripped people and put tar and feathers on their bodies
- Dragged people from jail and beat them, some to death
- Whipped with branches
- Beat people to unconciessness
- Decline
- Leader Grand Wizard David Stephenson convicted of **** and mutilation of a woman on a train
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