“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.…