The Klu Klux Klans Encounter With America: After The Civil War, 1920’s-1944
“Why do they join the Klan: for a sense of belonging, kinship, and ritual.” -Unknown (KKK Notes)
In the 1920’s America had a major encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan left a huge impact in America and is still around today. The most major marks they left in America were, when they were more popular, the people they go after and what they believed in, the acts they carried out as well as how America’s encounter with the Ku Klux Klan affected their society. Lastly, about the Klan today and what happened to them after the 1920’s.
The Ku Klux Klan, otherwise known as the KKK was at its peak in the 1920’s. The Ku Klux Klan began in 1866 and they had made it into …show more content…
Members of the Ku Klux Klan would wear white robes and hoods shaped like cones to try and show themselves as a ghostly figures (The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s). During attacks, though the Ku Klux Klan members would wear their white masks with little eye wholes, their white robes, and white hoods so people would not be able to see their faces (The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s). “The activities of the Klan have very commonly been referred to as ``moral reform,'' and certainly this kind of effort was common. Articles such as, ``Behind the White Hoods: The Regeneration of Oklahoma,'' and ``Night-Riding Reformers,'' from Fall 1923 issues of The Outlook bespeak this side of Klan motivation.(30) They tell how the Klan cleaned up gangs of organized crime and combated vice and political corruption in Oklahoma and Indiana, apparently with a minimum of violence or vigilantism. Also widespread were Klan attempts to put bootleggers out of business, though we might recall here that prohibition has frequently been endorsed by labor parti- sans, from the opinion that the often high alcohol consumption rates among workers weakened the labor movement. In fact, the Klan not infrequently attacked liquor and saloon interests explicitly as forces that kept working people down.” -Unknown (The 1920s Ku Klux Klan)Members of the Ku Klux Klan would dress their kids up if they had kids, and their kids would go …show more content…
Well, the Klan started to dwindle down once the great depression started to hit. Another event that led to the decline of the Second Klan was, the Klan started to become known from theft and raping women so they started to dwindle down (Stone Mountain And the Rebirth Of the KKK, One Century Ago). The Ku Klux Klan would come a few more times over American history, but it would never be as bad as it was over the 1920’s. Today there are only about twenty-five states that the Ku Klux Klan are operating in (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). The Ku Klux Klan today are still having their rallies though, every so often (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). As well as their is not just one whole Klan, they are all one now (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). Although the Ku Klux Klan are not as popular and as big as a threat as they were in the 1920’s, still keep an eye out (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States
“Why do they join the Klan: for a sense of belonging, kinship, and ritual.” -Unknown (KKK Notes)
In the 1920’s America had a major encounter with the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan left a huge impact in America and is still around today. The most major marks they left in America were, when they were more popular, the people they go after and what they believed in, the acts they carried out as well as how America’s encounter with the Ku Klux Klan affected their society. Lastly, about the Klan today and what happened to them after the 1920’s.
The Ku Klux Klan, otherwise known as the KKK was at its peak in the 1920’s. The Ku Klux Klan began in 1866 and they had made it into …show more content…
Members of the Ku Klux Klan would wear white robes and hoods shaped like cones to try and show themselves as a ghostly figures (The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s). During attacks, though the Ku Klux Klan members would wear their white masks with little eye wholes, their white robes, and white hoods so people would not be able to see their faces (The Ku Klux Klan in the 1920’s). “The activities of the Klan have very commonly been referred to as ``moral reform,'' and certainly this kind of effort was common. Articles such as, ``Behind the White Hoods: The Regeneration of Oklahoma,'' and ``Night-Riding Reformers,'' from Fall 1923 issues of The Outlook bespeak this side of Klan motivation.(30) They tell how the Klan cleaned up gangs of organized crime and combated vice and political corruption in Oklahoma and Indiana, apparently with a minimum of violence or vigilantism. Also widespread were Klan attempts to put bootleggers out of business, though we might recall here that prohibition has frequently been endorsed by labor parti- sans, from the opinion that the often high alcohol consumption rates among workers weakened the labor movement. In fact, the Klan not infrequently attacked liquor and saloon interests explicitly as forces that kept working people down.” -Unknown (The 1920s Ku Klux Klan)Members of the Ku Klux Klan would dress their kids up if they had kids, and their kids would go …show more content…
Well, the Klan started to dwindle down once the great depression started to hit. Another event that led to the decline of the Second Klan was, the Klan started to become known from theft and raping women so they started to dwindle down (Stone Mountain And the Rebirth Of the KKK, One Century Ago). The Ku Klux Klan would come a few more times over American history, but it would never be as bad as it was over the 1920’s. Today there are only about twenty-five states that the Ku Klux Klan are operating in (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). The Ku Klux Klan today are still having their rallies though, every so often (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). As well as their is not just one whole Klan, they are all one now (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States Today). Although the Ku Klux Klan are not as popular and as big as a threat as they were in the 1920’s, still keep an eye out (7 Facts About How the KKK is Operating in the United States