A crucial part of American history is the Civil Rights movement. For years many brave, determined people have fought for equality among all races, but more importantly, all people. People helped tremendously to bring some light on the topic of Civil Rights, but not everyone supported the movement that encouraged equality for African Americans among white Americans. If such people had enough hate in their heart, they would sometimes form groups to express how they felt about the matter. Arguably one of the most known hate groups formed by people who, to some degree, hated African Americans, is the Ku Klux Klan. The KKK, infamous for their gruesome, hate-filled crimes against African Americans and other minorities, has made their mark in the
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During the Civil Rights Movement, there were people who disliked African Americans from afar. The Klan, on the other hand, preferred to take action and used violence as a way to show their hate against the race. What they did wasn’t just name calling and spitting at their feet. What the KKK did was inhumane and unforgivable. How the hate group showed their hate is through lynching people, killing people usually by hanging. This was just one of the many horrible ways the KKK showed how violent they wanted, and were going to be. The members would abduct people so they could torture and kill them in disturbing, unforgivable ways such as beating, drowning, shooting them and many other ways as well. If killing one person at a time didn’t meet the needs of members of the Klan, they’d bomb churches and schools, killing adults and children bringing even more pain and suffering into the lives of the people affected by these horrendous crimes. Klan members would kill people if they were black, or even just involved with a black person or involved with organizations aiding African Americans. On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four innocent, young African American girls. These girls were Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Denise McNair, and Cynthia Wesley. These girls died a painful death that shouldn’t have been. They had their whole lives in front of them, and they were taken away from them by people who didn’t know when enough was enough. The four girls should not have died, but they did, and that should only remind one that the KKK committed horrendous crimes because they hated people of color who were only trying to bring awareness to their situation and how it needed to have a big, affective change to
During the Civil Rights Movement, there were people who disliked African Americans from afar. The Klan, on the other hand, preferred to take action and used violence as a way to show their hate against the race. What they did wasn’t just name calling and spitting at their feet. What the KKK did was inhumane and unforgivable. How the hate group showed their hate is through lynching people, killing people usually by hanging. This was just one of the many horrible ways the KKK showed how violent they wanted, and were going to be. The members would abduct people so they could torture and kill them in disturbing, unforgivable ways such as beating, drowning, shooting them and many other ways as well. If killing one person at a time didn’t meet the needs of members of the Klan, they’d bomb churches and schools, killing adults and children bringing even more pain and suffering into the lives of the people affected by these horrendous crimes. Klan members would kill people if they were black, or even just involved with a black person or involved with organizations aiding African Americans. On September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed a church in Birmingham, Alabama killing four innocent, young African American girls. These girls were Addie Mae Collins, Carole Robertson, Denise McNair, and Cynthia Wesley. These girls died a painful death that shouldn’t have been. They had their whole lives in front of them, and they were taken away from them by people who didn’t know when enough was enough. The four girls should not have died, but they did, and that should only remind one that the KKK committed horrendous crimes because they hated people of color who were only trying to bring awareness to their situation and how it needed to have a big, affective change to