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The KKK

The KKK was founded in 1866 by former Confederate officers and promotes white supremacy and anti-immigrant views. Throughout its history, the KKK has used intimidation, violence, and terrorism to prevent racial minorities and immigrants from fully participating in government and spread racist ideologies. Lynching was also commonly used by the KKK and others to kill African Americans without trial, often with little or no evidence of wrongdoing.

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The KKK

The KKK was founded in 1866 by former Confederate officers and promotes white supremacy and anti-immigrant views. Throughout its history, the KKK has used intimidation, violence, and terrorism to prevent racial minorities and immigrants from fully participating in government and spread racist ideologies. Lynching was also commonly used by the KKK and others to kill African Americans without trial, often with little or no evidence of wrongdoing.

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The KKK

Racism and Terrorism, Then and Now


Background
• Ku Klux Klan founded by former
Confederate officers in Pulaski,
Tennesse, 1866
• Right-wing, white
supremacist, anti-immigrant 
• 3 versions of the Klan: 
• Reconstruction Era (1865 –
1877)
• 1915 – WW2 (1940s) 
• 1950s – today 
• All active during times of greater
African-American rights; reaction
to changing times 
Politics and Violence
• KKK commits acts of terrorism
throughout its history 
• Intimidation, rallies, violence all: 
• Try to prevent African-Americans
from fully participating in
gov/democracy
• Sway whites, spread racist ideas 
• Dehumanize African-Americans,
other people of color, and
immigrants 
• Also sway elections, influence racist
laws, support politicians, etc. 
"America should build
a wall of steel, a wall as
high as Heaven, against
the flow of immigrants." 
Georgia Governor Clifford Walker, at
a 1924 convention of the KKK
Lynching

• The KKK often used lynching: mob killing without trial, usually by
hanging 
• However, lynching would often occur without the KKK 
• Often a man accused of a crime (often with no evidence) 
• Often large groups would attack, torture, mutilate, and kill black men
• ~4,200 African-Americans were lynched from 1880 – 1920 
• Still a powerful symbol of racism 
• Today, more black men are killed by police than lynching did in 1892 
The KKK Today: 100 – 150 chapters, 3,000 - 8,000 members

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