“Around the time of World War I, a new Ku Klux Klan”(Long), with a likeness to the original one, became into existence. “The resurgent group began in Georgia, where William J. Simmons dedicated it at a cross-burning on Stone Mountain on [November 23], 1915”(Long). The film, Birth of a Nation, by D.W. Griffith based on the novel The Clansman by Thomas Dixon, helped breed more racism. Also the American nativist movement across America was focused on “denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, [african americans] and ”(Ku Klux Klan) “other foreign elements”(Long). The Ku Klux Klan is very interesting like how it got its supporters, their main goal, and who they were against.
5In the beginning the Klan grew slow, but then it spread quickly. At its peak in the early 1920’s there were some “two million members”(Ku KLux Klan). Members or those acting like members, engaged in acts of violence. Even though they committed these acts across the nation, most of it was concentrated in the south. Hooded Klansmen paraded and …show more content…
They “promoted fundamentalism and patriotism along with advocating white [supremacist]”(Ku Klux Klan). The klan wanted to attack the elite, urbanites and intellectuals. They wanted “clean living”. Membership expanded rapidly in the 1920’s. and it was not just the poor and uneducated. middle class Americans donned the white robes of the Klan. Doctor, lawyers, and ministers became loyal supporters of the KKK. There were from two million to eight million members nationwide by the middle of 1920.
4The second Klan during the 1920’s “was a formal fraternal organization , with a national and state structure”(Ku Klux Klan). The highest included “15% of the nation's eligible population”(Ku Klux Klan). About “4-5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders and external opposition”(Ku Klux Klan) caused the clan to collapse by
5In the beginning the Klan grew slow, but then it spread quickly. At its peak in the early 1920’s there were some “two million members”(Ku KLux Klan). Members or those acting like members, engaged in acts of violence. Even though they committed these acts across the nation, most of it was concentrated in the south. Hooded Klansmen paraded and …show more content…
They “promoted fundamentalism and patriotism along with advocating white [supremacist]”(Ku Klux Klan). The klan wanted to attack the elite, urbanites and intellectuals. They wanted “clean living”. Membership expanded rapidly in the 1920’s. and it was not just the poor and uneducated. middle class Americans donned the white robes of the Klan. Doctor, lawyers, and ministers became loyal supporters of the KKK. There were from two million to eight million members nationwide by the middle of 1920.
4The second Klan during the 1920’s “was a formal fraternal organization , with a national and state structure”(Ku Klux Klan). The highest included “15% of the nation's eligible population”(Ku Klux Klan). About “4-5 million men. Internal divisions, criminal behavior by leaders and external opposition”(Ku Klux Klan) caused the clan to collapse by