Ku+Klux+Klan



=Some Minor Information= Throughout the history of the world, every culture has experienced the abominations of various groups that have missions of loathing contempt towards others of a specific type. However there is one group that is nearly 145 years old, fueled by hate these days, which originally started as club to cheer up the local folks of Pulaski, Tennessee (Cook 9). The Ku Klux Klan, also commonly known as the KKK or The Klan, has a horrid reputation for such violence as burning houses and crosses, lynching people, riots among many others, but this was not the original intentions of the founders. During the Christmas holidays in 1865 there were six confederate vets who came to the conclusion that the area needed something to pick up the morale since it was so low after “losing” the Civil War (Cook 9). They felt that the easiest way to do this would be to be typical everyday pranksters and play jokes or go from house to house singing and spreading the merry mood. During this era, masquerades were very popular so the men wanted costumes to go along with their act, but were unable to come up with anything more than a few white sheets and pillow cases to cover themselves and their horses, thus leading to what would be the famous apparel of the Ku Klux Klan (Cook 9). This merriment lasted for a short while, but the riders soon realized people, especially blacks and northerners, feared them because they were assumed to be ghost (Cook 10). This power soon became a political asset to the southerners seeking to return the south to somewhat of a normalcy (Cook 11). Before long the Klan would no longer be a harmless fear for a small political gain, but a true nightmare. The KKK has never rid themselves of their reputation that they earned shortly after they were founded; then again they never tried to do this. Their ideals consist of one thing: White Supremacy, a belief that only pure bred white Americans were superior to every other person. The Klan, like any other organization, has had its peaks and low points, but never has its believers gone extinct. The Ku Klux Klan peaked during its first ten years while fighting to return the south to a more normal time when whites had total control of blacks, before dying into the shadows for a while. Then there was a major revival around 1915 leading to record peaks for the Klan having nearly 6 million members at one point during the early 1920’s. These times of peak movements are kept fresh in the modern man’s memory through various stories of the Klan’s hate, whether it is word of mouth, history class, novels, or even autobiographies. One such tale that includes information of the violence and terror that the KKK wrecked upon millions of nonwhites, but most knowingly the blacks, was Richard Wright’s autobiography, //Black Boy//. In //Black Boy//, Wright experiences the violence of the Ku Klux Klan when his uncle is killed for being too successful with his profitable saloon in Elaine, Arkansas in 1917

=Work Cited= Cook, Fred J. "The Ku Klux Klan: America's Recurring Nightmare". New York: Julian Meisner, 1989: 9-12. Print.

I would suggest just using books or something very public like wikipedia... Some of the other online stuff can be real intense and they will come looking for you...
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