Ku Klux Klan

By: Joseph Hanna

The Ku Klux Klan is the most brutal organization in the 1920s. Factions of the organization included terrorism, including murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombing, to oppose the granting of civil rights to Africans. Among other brutal acts, the infamous cross-burning became a symbol of the KKK in the 1920s.

The KKK is a white brotherhood that was founded in 1866. The KKK has also been anti-semitic and anti-catholic, and has opposed the immigration of all those it does not view as "racially pure". Nick names of the Ku Klux Klan are white brotherhood, heroes of America, constitutional union guards, and invisible empire.

Among brutal acts the KKK had, they used the infamous cross-burning as a symbol in the 1920s. During the present days, it isn't likely to see anymore KKK members.

Works Cited

"Ku Klux Klan." West's Encyclopedia of American Law. Encyclopedia.com, n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.

By: Keeta Forrest

Men in white all white, wearing hoods that covered their mean faces and long robes. They were talking in a mean tongue. Cursing and people screaming to think that would help get their lives back, who these men were called was “The Ku Klux Klan”.The K.K.K. tells the story of a major event that happened in our history. From what they did to immigrants and the tragedy of this.

With the K.K.K. there came a time of events that had happened, most however were very uneventful. The name originated from the greeks kyklos meaning “Circle”. This organization was founded in 1866 by a group of white men who despised immigrants. A famous one a that was named Nathan Bedford Forrest. Born on July 13Th, in 1821. Before Forrest got involved in the K.K.K. he was a private and eventually got up in the ranks to be a lieutenant general in the confederate army. After the civil war was ended for him that’s when he became known as The first “Grand Wizard” of the most extreme anti-immigrant group in the U.S. By the 1870’s this K.K.K. branched out into nearly every southern state in the U.S had 5,000 to 8,000 active members. With this came a rapid growth of violence, torture and in some case death.

In 1871 congress Passage of the K.K.K. Act led to nine South Carolina countries were being placed under martial law. And thousands of arrests were made. By that time the reconstruction had ended. And then the Ku Klux Klan was fading away. In the 21 St centuries it is still going on today, but not as serious as those days.

Works Cited

"Nathan Bedford Forrest." Encyclopedia of World Biography, Gale, 1998. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/K1631002265/UHIC?u=pl2634&xid=725905f7. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.

www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ku-klux-klan-act-passed-by-congrass

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History, edited by Thomas Riggs, 2nd ed., vol. 2, Gale, 2015, p. 699. U.S. History in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/CX3611000480/UHIC?u=pl2634&xid=c336020e. Accessed 23 Jan. 2017.