KU KLUX

KLAN

What is? Ku Klux Klan was an organization created after the

American Civil War in 1865 by 6 veteran of the confederate army angry with their situation in Tenesee.

The name is derived from the Greek word kuklos which means circle and Klan because the first members were descendants of scottish families that had groups called clans.

Divisions

The group had three diferent movements: The first:played a violent role against

African Americans in the South during the Reconstruction Era of the 1860s. 

The second: was a big organization in the middle 1920s

The third (current) : consists of numerous small unconnected groups that use the KKK name. 

First K

lan

First Klan: 1865–1874

Six well-educated Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during theReconstruction of the South after the Civil War.

Activities Klan members adopted masks and robes

that hid their identities and added to the drama of their night rides, their chosen time for attacks. Many of them operated in small towns and rural areas where people otherwise knew each other's faces, and sometimes still recognized the attackers.

The Klan attacked black members of the Loyal Leagues and intimidated southern Republicans and Freedmen's Bureau workers. 

End of first Klan 1874

In 1870 a federal grand jury determined that the Klan was a "terrorist organization".  It issued hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism. Klan members were prosecuted.

Second K

lan

Second klan : 1915-1944

The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons at Stone Mountain, outside Atlant

Simmons in 1917, identified the Klan's goals as "to shield the sanctity of the home and the chastity of womanhood; to maintain white supremacy…”

Characteristics

The film The Birth of a Nation was released, the burning cross and the withe uniforms were taken from this film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WaaMp8AWQM

Part of the film “The Butler” attack of the second klan.

End of the second klan

The national leader Hiram Evans sold the organization in 1939 to James Colescott Indiana veterinarian and a doctor of Atlanta, Samuel Green, who were unable to stop the flow of Klansmen. The image of the organization received another blow when Colescott was discovered participating in pro-Nazi activities.

Number of membersYear Members

1920 4.000.000

1924 6.000.000

1930 30.000

1980 5.000

2008 6.000

Third Klan

Third klan 1970s – present. The modern KKK is not one

organization; rather it is composed of small independent chapters across the U.S. The formation of independent chapters has made KKK groups more difficult to infiltrate, and researchers find it hard to estimate their numbers

Links

Wikipedia.org Youtube.com http://

www.history.com/topics/ku-klux-klan Google images