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The KKK was first created in 1860s by ex-confederate soldiers due to conflicts in the reconstruction after the civil war. nearly 50 years later The KKK had a resurgence in the 1920s. The new era of KKK members were even more dangerous as they weren't only targeting black people during the time span.

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The revival of the KKK had a lot to do with changes in the status quo. These consisted of industrialization, immigration, and urbanization. The coping mechanism these KKK members showed was a variety of savagery tactics that aimed at groups like African Americans, immigrants, Catholics, and Jews.

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Although the KKK reemerged in the South in 1915, the organization would not have a nationwide comeback until after World War I ended. In just ten months, membership in the KKK grew from a few thousand to over 1 million. squared Local chapters of the KKK sprung up across the country, and by the 1920s, it had evolved into a genuinely national organization, with a powerful presence not only in the South, but also in New England, the Midwest, and across the northern United States.

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The Rise and Fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan

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When the KKK arrived to recruit in Greenville, Mississippi, LeRoy Percy took action to keep the Klan out. His impassioned address at the Klan's recruitment got townspeople to support the destruction of the KKK in general.

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The Great Migration: 1916-1970
Also known as the Black Migration, was the movement of over 6 million African Americans out of the American South to Northern, Midwestern, and Western states.

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The main driving force behind this movement was to escape racial violence, pursue educational opportunities, as well as many other factors, such as wanting to obtain freedom from Jim Crow.

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American Experience | The Great Migration: From Mississippi to Chicago | Season 15 | PBS

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In the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of African-Americans moved North.

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Jacob Lawrence's the Migration Series: Published 1993
Jacob Lawrence, an African American artist, started writing his book series in 1917 covering the events of the Great Migration, a period that forever altered the social, economic, political, and cultural fabric of American society.

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An excerpt from 1895 of “Why is the Negro Lynched?” by Frederick Douglass

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An excerpt from 1895 of “Why is the Negro Lynched?” by Frederick Douglass

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A quote from this excerpt, "the Southern mob, in its rage, feeds its vengeance by shooting, stabbing and burning their victims, when they are dead." showing that even though they have already beaten down African Americans, there is always something worse that they can do to them.

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The Great Migration ended in the 1970s, when the South had changed so that African-Americans were no longer under pressure to leave and were free to live anywhere they chose. The Great Migration would lead to a lower population of African Americans in the South. Even with this movement, racism was still prevalent even the most rural Northern cities.