The Ku Klux Klan & The Enforcement Acts

Zamir WilsonRandall Wilson

Brian DavisAngel Pavrette

Introduction• The KKK was founded in 1866 by Albert Pike , David Duke and William J

Simmons. The Ku Klux Klan is the name of several pass secret domestic terrorist organizations in the United States. They are best known for its allied terrorism, violence, and lynching to advocating white supremacy and acting as vigilantes while hidden behind conic masks and white robes. The first KKK arose in the turmoil after the Civil War. The first Klan was founded in 1865 by veterans of the Confederate Army. Its purpose was to restore white supremacy in the aftermath of the American Civil War. The Klan resisted Reconstruction by intimidating carpetbaggers, scalawags, and freedmen. The KKK oppress African Americans, Jews, Roman Catholics, and other racial and religious minorities.

Nathan Bedford ForrestNathan Bedford Forrest was born on July 13, 1821- October 29, 1877. He served the first Grand wizard of the KKK. Their role was to kill blacks at night. They would go in houses at night and pull blacks out beating them into they died. They wore white sheets and triangle shape hats only eyes were visible.

Photo of KKK members burning a

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Gathering of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

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Photo of KKK member

Primary Source Reading• Newspaper report from the Shelby County Guide (Columbiana), December 3, 1868, of Klan activities in central Alabama:

Movements of the Mystic KlanA reliable correspondent writes as follows to a friend in Memphis from Florence, Alabama:• About a week ago Saturday night the Ku Klux came into town to regulate matters. They were here from eleven p.m. to three o'clock

a.m — five hundred in all. They shot one very bad negro, putting six balls through his head. Many heard the noise, but did not know what was going on. They also hung three or four negroes nearly dead, and whipped others severely in order to make them tell them about their nightly meetings, and what their object was in holding the same; also, as to who their leaders were. They made a clean breast of the whole matter, telling everything. The strongest thing about these Kuklux was that they did not hesitate to unmask themselves when asked to do so; and out of the whole party none were identified. —Every one who saw them says their horses were more beautiful than, and far superior to, any in the country round about. They spoke but little but always to a purpose. They went to several stores and knocked; the doors were opened at once. They then called for rope, and at each place a coil was rolled out to them. They cut it in suitable length to hang a man with. No one asked for money and they offered none. They did not disturb any one else, nor did they take any thing except some few Enfield rifles which were found in possession of some very bad negroes. —They called on the revenue officer and passed a few remarks with him. What transpired is not known, but it has made a great improvement in his conversation. The visitants advent has been productive of much good and benefit to the community, though all regret such steps should have to be resorted to, every one says "give us peace," and really I believe them to be truly sincere.

5 Questions

• Who are the KKK?• Why were they created?• What did they do?• When were the KKK established?• What were the jobs of the KKK members?

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2013• ADAH: Alabama Moments (The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction--Primary Sources)."

ADAH: Alabama Moments (The Ku Klux Klan During Reconstruction--Primary Sources). Shelby County Doc, Nov.-Dec. 1868. Web. 28 Feb. 2013

• "Who Were the KKK?" WikiAnswers. Answers, n.d. Web. 28 Feb. 2013.• Smith, Eugene. "W. Eugene Smiths Photographs of a Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Meeting in South ��

Carolina in 1951 | International Center of Photography Library." International Center of Photography Library. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Mar. 2013. <http://icplibrary.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/w-eugene-smiths-photographs-of-a-ku-klux-klan-kkk-meeting-in-south-carolina-in-1951/>.

(all photos came from the same source)