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The Ku Klux Klan Amanda Lee3-2-04
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Origin

• Started in Pulaski Tennessee
• Started by six confederate veterans
• Nathan Bedford-main leader of the group

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How they first came about

• Six confederate solders sat around a fire a were
  talking about ideas for a new society.
• They decided that they were going to make a Klan
  and keep it a secret for amusement
• KKK-circle which they were in around the fire
• Wanted to show off so galloped their horses
  around town while wearing white sheets and
  pointed hats.
• Caused a stir and that is how they decided to
  make the sheets a uniform.

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How the KKK turned

• People in other towns heard about this group and
  made their own, but with beliefs.
• They started by making late night visits to black
  homes and telling them to behave or they would
  return.
• Soon the threats turned into violence.
• The violence was exerted on blacks who insisted
  on exercising their new rights of freedom.

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New Beliefs for the KKK

• White supremacy
• A white supremacist organization which are
  dedicated to opposing civil rights for blacks,
  Jews, and other ethnic,religiouse and social
  groups.

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At the beginning of hate

• At the beginning the KKK was not concerned with
  other ethnicities and religions.They were just
  focused on blacks.
• Concerns of other races and religions started in
  about 1887
• This is when about 23 million people from Great
  Brittan, Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Russia
  started coming to America.

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1980s

• Racism was legal
• Deep south greatest attempts to keep blacks
  socially, politically and economically powerless.
• Lynching of blacks in white mobs started
• Racism and violence caused major migration of
  black to northern cities.

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A cruel act

• Klan's would go to black homes at night and
  demand water the blacks would give it to them the
  would appear to be drinking it and keep
  demanding more.
• Would be pouring it in a tube
• Say that hadnt had a drink since he died on the
  battlefield at Shiloh
• Leaving blacks in fear that ghosts of the
  confederate dead were ridding around.

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Common Acts of violence

• Hanging
• Lashing
• Burning things such as churches
• Brutally beating

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Bibliography

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• Klu Klux Klan. www.reed.edu/gronkep/webofpolitic
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• Ku Klux Klan. doctrine
• www.rotten.com/library/history/racism/kkk/
• Klu Klux Klan and the Knights of Labor. Masonic
  Brotherhood.
• www.crocker.com/acacial/kol_cult.html
• Klu Klux Klan. Initiation Ceremony.
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• Ku Klux Klan. The readers companion to American
  history
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• Ku Klux Klan. wikipedia
• www.En.wikipedia.org/wiki/ku_klux_klan
• Montgomery, Al. The Klu Klux Klan long history
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• hatred. www.iupui.edu/aao/kkk.html