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Title: HATE GROUPS IN AMERICA


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HATE GROUPS IN AMERICA
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KU KLUX KLAN
  • Phase 1
  • 1865 during reconstruction
  • after the Civil War
  • Tennessee six former
  • Confederate army officers
  • Based on the Greek word
  • kluklos or group
  • Began as anti black
  • Known for lynching, white sheets, burning
    crosses, tar and feather, OVERT discrimination

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KKK continued
  • Imperial Wizard supreme commander
  • Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Grand Dragons
  • Great Titans
  • Exalted Cyclops

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KKK Phase 2
  • Focus on blacks AND all alien outsiders
  • Immigrants
  • Jews
  • Catholics
  • 1925 estimated 5 million members
  • 1925 March on Washington DC
  • Gain political power
  • Overt discrimination continues
  • Internal struggles and investigations of leaders
    reduces influence and popularity
  • Depression and WWII slow down KKK

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KKK flier for Madison, WI rally in 1920s
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KKK Phase 3
  • 1960s KKK is revitalized
  • Lack of national organization
  • Smaller self governed groups
  • Opposition to the rising civil rights
  • movement
  • Goal Preserve segregation after
  • court rulings
  • Brown vs. Board of Education
  • 1965 about 40,000 members
  • Tactics Church bombings, boycotts, beatings
  • intimidation

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KKK Phase 4
  • 1970s Today
  • Approximately 6,000 active members
  • Less white sheets more shirts and ties
  • Splinter groups found throughout USA
  • including WI

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  • According to the KKK
  • the drop of blood refers
  • to the blood shed by
  • Jesus Christ as a sacrifice
  • for the white race

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Neo - Nazis
  • Hatred of Jews
  • Belief of Hitler and Nazi Germany
  • ANTI SEMITISM
  • Also hate black, homosexuals, other
  • minorities
  • Some focus on political rebellion
  • Publications banned in Europe
  • Protected under free speech laws in USA
  • USA breeding grounds for these groups

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Neo Nazi Faction Skinheads
  • White Supremacists, anti-gay, anti-Jew
  • Trademark Shaved heads and hate tattoos
  • Began in England 1960s USA by 80s
  • Often operate in small crews
  • Focus on recruitment of teens
  • Use of music and internet

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Christian Identity aka Aryan Nation
  • Non Jewish whites are the children of God
  • Jews are direct descendents of Satan
  • Christ will not return until all Jews
  • eradicated
  • Non whites are mud people
  • Began in 1970s
  • Current membership low due to internal
  • disputes

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Black Separatist
  • Blacks who oppose integration and racial
  • intermarriage
  • Goal Create a separate nation for American
  • blacks (if needed overthrow government)
  • Anti white and anti Jew
  • Blacks are the chosen children of God
  • New Black Panthers (urban guerilla warfare?)
  • Started in Milwaukee 1990
  • Many groups are American black Muslims
  • Nation of Islam

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Hate Groups in Wisconsin
http//www.splcenter.org/intel/map/index.jsp?SWI
m5 Hate Groups In USA http//www.splcenter.org
/images/dynamic/intel/hatemaps/5/hate_map_ir125_ad
justed.pdf
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