Kkk

Front 1

Context

Back 1

1961 - escalation of vietnam

1962 - cuban missle crisis

1963- assassination of jfk

1965 - assassination of malcom x

1968 - assassination of Robert Kennedy

Front 2

Social violence?

Back 2

Malcom X 1964:

Compares Harlem to a police state.

Harlem hate gang:

'Do they have the right to exist?'

'Oppression made them brothers'

'The noble people of Algeria to resort to terrorist-type tactics that were neccessary'

Kennedy 2011:

'Yes sir, ladies and gentlemen this is the Ku Klux Klan. Whenever the law fails you just call on us.'

(May, 2005):

'Powerless men a sense of power'

Front 3

Political violence

Back 3

(Kennedy, 2011):

'Much more sensitive to purse strings than heart strings'

(Law, 2016):

'Violence was rarely punishef by the authorities because their was little public pressure and police forces weee riddled with Klan members and sympathisers.'

Front 4

Counter intellegence

Back 4

(Cunningham, 2013):

'The goal of counter intelligence is to actively restrict a targets ability to carry out planned actions or to encourage acts of wrong doing'

COINTELPRO against kkk in 1964 widely dismissed as a 'token attempt to convince Robert Kennedy the FBI was in fact invested'

Viola Liuzzo:

1965 shot by Gary Rowe

(Miller, 2012):

Blank Panther Party:

Bureau's tactics 'included provoking acts of violence'

SDS:

Deviants