KKK

KKK The Ku Klux Klan was a notorious racial group that would commit hate crimes against people of African-American, Jewish, and Catholic decent. They came to power after the American Civil War. Today the Klan is still trying to obtain their original goal of white supremacy, but are going about it in a very different manner. When they first began everything that they wanted to accomplish was done through violent hate crimes. Today they are going about their business through politics instead of with a criminal instinct.1 The KKK, as they were known by most people, was first formed after the American Civil War by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski Tennessee the year 1866. Their elected Grand Wizard, or leader, was a former Confederate general, Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klan’s first main goal was to stop the African American’s from voting. Other groups involved in this idea of white supremacy were the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the constitutional Union Guards, and the Knights of the White Camelia. These groups were established to counteract the influence that the radical members of Congress were trying to inflict upon the South. After the Civil War, Congress’s first goal was to destroy the white power structure of the Rebel states. The member’s of Congress klan, white, ku, klux, kkk, war, state, south, first, after, power, organization, klansmen, congress, civil, states, robert, people, membership, known, chambliss, bill, being, african, 1920’s, world, ulysses, swear, supremacy, since, really, radical, president, off