The Ku Klux Klan started in the Pulaski, Tennessee, which is in the south of the United States during the year of 1865. The majority people who became part of the Klan were white people from the south. The KKK was regarding white people that wanted to have white sovereignty. According to Fryer et al. (2012), the Klan “is the most prominent hate-based organization in American history.” The two accounts of the Ku Klux Klan were not quite the same because the one account written by John Zerzan emphasizes that the Klan was not how many people imagined it was; since it was more helpful to the society. According to Jackson, the Ku Klux Klan was not primarily southern, chauvinist, or violent. On the other hand, the Golden Era of Indiana account was quite different because they depicted the Ku Klux Klan as being a heartless group of white people harassing black people and vandalizing everything. In addition, if anyone stood on the Klan members’ way, did not matter if they were white or black people, they would kill them all.
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Some would say that the Klan was not racist at all and was apt to help people, including colored people, rather than killing them. Degler assumed that the brutality was not against colored people but it was against the white people, mostly.
The Klan rose even more with the economic depression that happened in the year of 1920. Farmers were organized trying to make the price of cotton to go out due to the economy. They were wearing masked bands threatening all distribution center to close down until the price went up. However, places that did not comply with those orders, they would set them on fire. At this point, the Ku Klux Klan began spreading to the North and then becoming a bigger movement to the point that would be known
Some would say that the Klan was not racist at all and was apt to help people, including colored people, rather than killing them. Degler assumed that the brutality was not against colored people but it was against the white people, mostly.
The Klan rose even more with the economic depression that happened in the year of 1920. Farmers were organized trying to make the price of cotton to go out due to the economy. They were wearing masked bands threatening all distribution center to close down until the price went up. However, places that did not comply with those orders, they would set them on fire. At this point, the Ku Klux Klan began spreading to the North and then becoming a bigger movement to the point that would be known