Ku Klux Klan

The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States. The first Klan was established in the wake of the Civil War and was a defining organization of the Reconstruction era. The second Klan started small in Georgia in 1915 and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s. The third and current manifestation of the KKK emerged after 1950, in the form of localized and isolated groups that use the KKK name. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

About Ku Klux Klan in brief

The Ku Klux Klan is an American white supremacist hate group whose primary targets are African Americans. Lesser enemies of the Klan include Jews, immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims and, until recently, Catholics. The Klan has existed in three distinct eras at different points in time during the history of the United States. The first Klan was established in the wake of the Civil War and was a defining organization of the Reconstruction era. The second Klan started small in Georgia in 1915 and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, including urban areas of the Midwest and West. The third and current manifestation of the KKK emerged after 1950, in the form of localized and isolated groups that use the KKK name. It is classified as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center. All three movements have called for the ‘purification’ of American society and all are considered ‘right-wing extremist’ organizations, according to the ADL and the SPLC. The Anti-defamation League puts total KKK membership nationwide at around 3,000, while the SPULC puts it at 6,000 members total. The Cyclopædia of Fraternities and Frat houses was printed by Laps D. McCord of Pulaski, Tennessee, in April 1867. The manual was published by The Cyclops, a group of fraternities, to conjure up a veritable Frankenstein. The members had conjured up an engine of power and mystery, though they found themselves overcome by a belief that something must lie behind it all – a work for the Klan to do to do with it all.

For example, after the Confederate veteran John W. W. Campbell died in 1867, there was a gradual transformation in the Klan into an insurgent movement promoting resistance and white supremacy. Although there was little organizational structure, after all, a work was all that was needed for it to do all, all, and there was no work for it all to do at all – all, it was all a work of imagination and a mystery, all of it on innocent lines, though entirely innocent on the innocent lines. The group was organized on the same level as other insurgent groups throughout the South and adopted the same name and methods as they spread across the South. It was suppressed around 1871, through federal law enforcement. Its numerous chapters across the south were suppressed through federal intervention. It rapidly declined in the later half of the 1920s. It used K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan, while adding cross burnings and mass parades to intimidate others. It also took a pro-Prohibition stance, and it opposed Catholics and Jews, while also stressing its opposition to the alleged political power of the pope and the Catholic Church. Although members of the Klux Klan swear to uphold Christian morality, the group is widely denounced by Christian denominations. It is considered a ‘hate group’ by many Christian denominations, including the Southern Baptist Church.

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