Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Ku Klux Klan
- Origins
- Seperation
- Racial
- Social Groups
- Started after Civil War
- 1865
- Purity of Whites
- Aims
- Standing up for White rights
- White Power
- They felt that black were inferior and the Klan didn't like blacks
- Racial Seperation
- No mixed marrages
- To build an empire
- Purity of white women hood
- Have an all white government
- Control people they didn't want
- Activities
- Burning of the cross
- Speeches
- Ralies
- Thousands joined the ralies
- Terrorism
- Bombings
- Murders
- Intimidation
- Bus Boycotting
- Power
- Made connection
to chrtistianity
- So much power, they got
away with anything (Murders,
Lynchings)
- Thousands joined ralies
- Film
- The Birth of a Nation
- Woodrow Wilson agreed
with the message of the
film
- Portrayed Blacks as
enemies and the KKK as
heros
- By 1920, over 3 million had
joined the KKK