KKK

KKK KKK of the 1920's Was the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920’s an Extremist Movement' Yes: David H. Bennett I- The 1920’s Klan II- Women in the Klan III- David C. Stephenson Between June of 1920 through October of 1921, it is estimated at much as 85,000 men joined the Ku Klux Klan. Although the Klan was the strongest in the midwest and the midsouth, it was a nation wide epidemic. Klan members fed off of Xenophobic, a fear of foreigners. Klan members believed that every Catholic in public life, no matter what position they held in society, must be watched carefully. “The modern Klan added an anti-Semitic element.” Klan theoreticians believed that the Jews were not only unproductive, there were also un-American. “Jew Movies Urge Sex and Vice,” the Klan title screamed like an echo from Ford’s Dearborn Independent. The position of woman in the humanities of the Klan was expressly conventional. The Klan believed in protection of women because they thought women could help in the “shaping of America”. Even tho! ugh they believed so strongly in woman protection, this came at a costly price: violence. Although the victims of the “masked nightriders” were often men, the enemies of klan, members, kkk, women, klansmen, men, just, stephenson, ku, klux, david, coben, believed, 1920’s, american, yes, womanhood, woman, white, way, top, through, ten, small, rotary, protestant, protection, position, organization, office, native, movement, mission, local, likewise, led, infrequent