The Ku Klux Klan and The Treatment of Black Americans
- Created by: Fiona S
- Created on: 08-06-15 21:04
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Origins (Segregation and Jim Crow Laws)
- The Jim Crow Laws meant that black eople of the southern states were segregated from white people
- Forced to go to seperate schools, use seperate buses, trains and live in different neighbourhoods
- Low paid jobs and low standard education
- Only few black people could vote
- Lynching
Reasons for the growth of the KKK
- In early 1920s, fundraiser Ed Clarke recruited people in businesslike way to variety of prejudices
- Employed sympathises as new members for $10 (kept $4 dollars for themselves)
- 1923 dentist Wesley Evans took over. Moved Klan into local state politics
- Judges, local officials and policemen became members
- Local politicians and business men sometimes supported them for political reasons and out of four (didn't want to offend)
- 1924 - 4 million members
Membership
- Often poor whites who thought their jobs were threatened by black who would work for less
- Did have some rich, influential members including state politicians
- Strongest in southern states - large black population and history of black opression
Targets
- Black People
- Communists
- Jew and Catholics
- Foreigners
The decline in support for the Ku Klux Klan
- The Klan sold itself as…
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