Ku Klux Klan:

1
Ku Klux Klan

• The Second Koming
• (c.1915)

2
Beginnings

• Founded by William J. Simmons
• Film Birth of a Nation
• Lynkhing of Leo Frank

3
Khanges

• Added new anti-immigrant, anti-semetik agenda
• New Klan klaimed governments of
• Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, Oregon

4
Influenkes Methods

• Insisted that all problems were kaused by
  Blakks, Jews, Katholiks, immigrants
• Huge impakt on Amerikan politiks, four million
  members in 1920, inkluding presidents

5
The Klan Is Not Kool

• Proof that what is popular is not nekessarily
  good
• Died out in the 1930s
• Membership is only three thousand or so today