Eps 1532: kkk
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The second Klan branch was active in parts of Georgia into the 1930s, and a band of "Night Riders" in Atlanta imposed its moral views, beating up those who transgressed, both black and white. As the Ku Klux Klan gained members in every strata of Southern white society, they used violent intimidation to keep blacks--and anyone else who supported Reconstruction--from voting and holding political office. Although the Klan reverted back to burning crosses, torturing, and killing those it opposed, by the mid-1920s, the organization had grown into a formidable political force. The burning cross became a symbol of the Klan, with Klansmen dressed in white attending parades, parades, and overnight cross burnings across the nation.
Dressed in robes and sheets, intended to obstruct identification from the federal troops under occupation , the Klan soon became a terrorist organization serving the Democrats and White Supremacy. Klansmen sought the restoration of white supremacy through intimidation and violence directed against the recently freed Black Freedmen. Behind the guise of chivalry, the Klan , a Southern brotherhood founded during the period after the Civil War, sought to perpetuate white supremacy through terror. The Klan was organized in varying ways across the South as an underground white resistance against Reconstruction forces.
Initially, the Klan emerged out of the chaos of Reconstruction in the deep South. The first Klan was organized by a group of young Confederate veterans as an unabashed social club in May 1866. In 1866, it was reported that the first Klan was formed in Tennessee by Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. In 1865, near the end of the Civil War, six Confederate veterans met in Pulaski, Tennessee, and formed the Ku Klux Klan, a vigilante organization that mobilized a campaign of violence and terror against the reconstruction process.
Founded in 1866 by a Confederate general, the Klan became known as the invisible empire of the South, with members representing the specter of the Confederate dead returning to terrorize African-Americans and Republicans. The Klan, a secretive organization using terrorist tactics against recently freed African Americans, attracted defeated Confederates who resented changes to Reconstruction. The Klan also targeted European immigrants, American Indians, Jews, Catholics, and religious groups. The Klan responded by carrying out terror rides at the homes of Black voters at night.
In 1940, the Klan joined the German-American Bund to stage a major demonstration in New Jersey. In its efforts to preserve white hegemonic control over the government, the Klan, joined by other Southern whites, engaged in a violent campaign of lethal voter intimidation in the 1868 presidential election. As whites regained political power, the Klans activities declined. Over the remainder of the decade, the Klan gradually declined in loyalty and strength.
The Ku Klux Klan was partly motivated by patriotism, and partly by a romantic nostalgia for the South, but, more important, it expressed a defensive response among small-town American white Protestants who felt threatened by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and the massive migrations in the preceding decades that had changed the ethnic complexion of American society. A Ku Klux Klan organization was even founded in Fiji in the early 1870s by white American colonists, though its operations were soon ended by the British, who, though still officially unestablished as a primary authority in Fiji, had played a leading role in the establishment of the new Constitutional monarchy, which was threatened by Klan activities there. The Second Klan was one of a number of secretive, oath-bound organizations using violence, including the Southern Cross in New Orleans and Knights of the White Camelia in Louisiana. Ku Klux Klan, either of two different U.S. hate organizations, that used terror to further their white supremacist agenda.
The Ku Klux Klan , often abbreviated as KKK or Klan, is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group that has targeted African Americans among its primary targets, along with Jews, immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Catholics, and Muslims. Although the Klan has involved its members in politics and some charitable activities, most historians associate the organization with acts of violence and terrorism. The organizations history shows how the Washington state Klan shrewdly used large, spectacular gatherings to attract members and sway public opinion.
Groups like Knights of the Visible Empire, the Fraternal Order of Men, the Sons and Daughters of Freedom, Patriots of America, The Flaming Circle, The Royal Blues, and The All-American Anti-Ku Klux Klan emerged across Oklahoma. Anti-Klan organizations began forming in opposition to the rule of the invisible empire. As Reconstruction policies took hold from 1865-1877, allowing African Americans to be more politically, economically, and socially active throughout the South, local cells of the Klan, called Klaverns, formed across the South and took on different roles.
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