The Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan is a White Supremacist Group. The first Ku Klux Klan group,
developed in the winter of 1865 to 1866 in Pulsaki, Tennessee. The groups
original name was kuklos which means circle. The Ku Klux Klan started off as
just something to do to cure their boredom with practical jokes as their
activities. Although a popular theory about how the Ku Klux Klan that it was
through the American Civil War but the theory I have suggested makes much more
sense I believe. During the night, they would dress up like ghosts to disguise
themselves. They then began to focus on racism and at that time Nathan Bedford
Forest became the first leader of the group (Imperial Wizard). They killed a
great number of African Americans and wanted to make America, an All American
Country because they believed blacks were inferior to American White Protestant
Males which was the only type of people allowed to join.
English: William Joseph Simmons, founder of the se...
Ku Klux Klan members and a burning cross, Denver, ...
Open-air Initiation of K.K.K. under the Light of t...They also do not like
Roman Catholics, Gay people, Jews or anybody considered to be an outsider. They
also believe White Woman are inferior. So they targeted these people that they
had such hatred for by burning wooden crosses to frighten them and giving
warnings and threats to leave town immediately. They resented the rise of
former slaves. Slaves were usually black so that is the reason why they did not
like the rise of them.
BELIEFS
The Ku Klux Klan believes that every American White Protestant female should
only be allowed to marry an American White Protestant male and that there should
no mixed ethnic minorities and no mixed religions in the family. They also say
blacks are more likely to commit crime and they also say that Hispanic crime is
high, but I believe they...
Nice
this was a nice essay and gave me an idea of how the KKKs were.
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