The Klan And The Civil Rights Movement

They are basically known as the Klan. The Klan started in 1866. By 1870 it almost extended into all of the southern states. It became an all white group to resist to the republicans on the new laws that were created. The new laws were concerning the equal rights for black people everywhere. The members of the Klan were secret at first and was planning a lot of things like violent actions toward specifically to the african americans. Even though the government outlawed the KKK the people in the Klan were still going with the group. The members were than believing in white supremacy, that's still going on in the world today. The Klan basically came back to life in the early 20th century. They began burning crosses, staging rallies, and violence towards people they felt weren't apart of the groups.The civil rights movement in the 1960s began a lot of violence to the black people. This violence included bombings of black schools, churches and brutally hurt any white and black activists in the south.

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The violence kept going on in the south and they were determined to prove that it wouldn't stop unless they got what they wanted. The bombing occurred on September 15th before Sunday services at the 16th street baptist church, which was a church predominantly full of black and it also served as a church of civil rights workers and leaders. Four young girls were killed and a lot of people were injured mostly black people almost all actually. This was also another incident that made it go national all over the nation. Which happened to make black people in often dangerous situations for civil rights movements for african americans. This was a very sad and horrible bombing during the civil rights movement. This event was one of the most violent actions in the civil rights movement and a lot of people were hurt physically and