The kkk (ku klux klan) by ELIZABETH SANTILLAN

The definition of the ku klux klan and its founding.

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

The ku klux klan worked as an unofficial paramilitary of the Southern segregationist governments. It allowed the members to kill out the so-called sin and allowed southern segregation to eliminate activists by force, they did this to not alert the federal authority. The KKK was founded in 1866.

Thomas Dixon Jr's novel 1905

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

Thomas Dixon Jr. turned his second kkk novel,"The clansmen" into a play. Although it's fictional, the novel uses a burning cross as a symbol for the Ku Klux Klan. Dixon implies that the Klan is incorporated with a burning cross but it's all a creation he made. Dixon had a huge adoration for the Ku Klux Klan. His adoration began to revive the long dormant organization after the american civil war.

The Klan act of 1871 and the after math

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

In 1871 congress passed the Klan act. This act allowed the federal government to finally arrest the Klan members is large scales. This started to lower the member's popularity over the next several years. The Klan was then starting to be replaced by other violent white supremacist groups.

The local groups forming in the 1920s

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

In 1920 the KKK became more open to the public organization. The Klan is stated to expand its platform to "protect the world form" Prohibition, anti-antisemitism, xenophobia, anti-communism, and anti-Catholicism. Slowly bitter white people started to form even more local Klan groups. Many people romanticized it which caused the local groups to form as it was portrayed in "birth of nation".

KKK convicted of murder charges

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

In 1925 a man named Indiana Grand Dragon D.C. Stephenson was convicted of murder. Many members finally came to their senses and realized they may be charged with manslaughter. Most members that werent located in the south disappeared. However the Klan members in the south, local groups kept on operating.

Death of Harry Tyson Moore in 1951

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

Many members of the KKK firebombed the house of NAACP executive director Harry Tyson Moore. The blast killed him and his wife, Harriet, on Christmas eve and his wife, Harriet, on Christmas Eve of 1951. Moore was killed when a bomb was placed underneath the floor joints under his bed. He was stated to be dead on the way to the hospital. His wife however died nine days later.

The connect with to kill a mockingbird and the Klan.

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

In to kill a mocking bird, a group of white men came to the finch house and Jem thought that they were the KKK. Now the reason for Jem thinking this was because the KKK was very prominent in the south in the 1930s. The KKK was as stated around for a very long time, but during a time they slowly started to hide or be careful with their doing in the north. The members in the south clearly didn't care what happened to them in the south.

Bibliography

elizabethis55 — 2024-05-20 17:49:42 UTC

https://www.cram.com/essay/Significance-Of-Ku-Klux-Klan-In-To/PJSERNZHWU

Cram.com showed the significance with to kill a mockingbird and the KKK. It showed why the kkk was even mentioned in the book. It also talks about the activity of the Klan during the 1930s.

http://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/4513

The Florida memory gave enough information on a victim of the kkk. The man's name was Harry T moore. The website goes into depth about the murder of him and his wife. It's very informative to those who are working on a project based off of him or the kkk. It gives a clear image of what the klan did to people of color.

Head, Tom. "Timeline History of the Ku Klux Klan." ThoughtCo, Jul. 29, 2021, thoughtco.com/the-ku-klux-klan-history-721444.

Head, Tom provided a lot of information on the Klan. The website placed everything in chronological order. The website gives just enough information to only need the one website or for you to do some further digging on the topic.