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- The Klan's purpose was to thwart the federal government's post-Civil War Reconstruction efforts to secure equality for more than three million freed slaves in the South. Its main tactic was terror; its hallmarks were beatings, arson, rape, and lynching.
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Jan 25, 2017 · Politics & History. The History of the KKK in American Politics. In the 1920s, during what historians call the KKK’s “second wave,” Klan members served in all levels of American government. KKK members parade in Virginia, 1922. Via Wikimedia Commons. By: Tara McAndrew. January 25, 2017. 8 minutes.
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During the 1920s, cultural conflict and modernization helped resuscitate the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Whereas the original KKK was a violent, racist organization born in the post Civil War South, the modern Klan was driven by somewhat different concerns. Many white, lower middle-class, Protestant Americans in the North and Midwest were fearful that immi...
1. The most significant factor that helped fuel the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was 1. nostalgia 2. immigration 3. national security 4. labor strikes 2. The immediate cause of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s was 1. the release of the film Birth of a Nation 2. the Senate’s refusal to join the League of Nations 3. the chaos ...
Explain the reasons for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.Compare the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s with the original Klan from the Reconstruction Era.Hiram Evans, “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism,” 1926 1. The sentiments expressed in the provided excerpt are best understood as a response to the 1. Senate’s rejection of the League of Nations 2. events associated with the Red Scare in the early 1920s 3. fear of the Spanish flu brought to the United States by immigrants 4. programs created during ...
Gordon, Colin, ed. Major Problems in American History, 1920-1945: Documents and Essays. Boston: Cengage, 2010.
Chalmers, David M. Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1987. Coben, Stanley. Rebellion Against Victorianism: The Impetus for Cultural Change in 1920s America. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991. Jackson, Kenneth T. The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1967. MacLean...
Oct 29, 2009 · For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of...
The Indiana Klan was the state of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that organized in 1915 to promote ideas of racial superiority and affect public affairs on issues of Prohibition, education, political corruption, and morality. Like the rest of the KKK, it was strongly white supremacist against African ...
Jul 14, 2014 · The Original Klan: The Order of the Ku Klux Klan, self-described as the “Invisible Empire of the South,” came into being in the desolated Southland at the end of the Civil War. This body functioned as an underground resistance movement, battling to preserve its members way of life.
Jul 7, 2005 · In 1922 Hiram W. Evans, a dentist from Dallas, Texas, displaced William Simmons as the leader of the Klan and attempted to turn the organization into a powerful political machine.
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌkuːklʌksˈklæn, ˌkjuː -/), [ e ] commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups.
