Klu_Klux_Klan

Klu Klux Klan Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that originated in the southern states during the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War and was reactivated in the 20th century. The Ku Klux Klan believed in the innate inferiorityof black so therefore mistrusted adn resented the rise of former slaves to a status of civil equality and often to positions of political power. The lan became an illegal organization committed to destroying the Reconstruction governments from the Carolinas to Arkansas. Attired in robes or sheets and wearing masks topped with pointed hoods, the Klansmen terrorized public officials in effort to drive them from office and blacks in general to prevent them from voting, holding office, and otherwise exercising their newly acquird political rights. It was customary for them to burn crosses on hillsides and near the homes of who they wished to frighten. When such tactics failed to produce the affect they wanted, the victim would be flogged, mutilated, or murdered. These activities were justified by the klan as necessary measures in defense of white supremacy and the inviolability of white womanhood A secret convention of Klansmen, held in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1867, adopted a declaration of principles expressing loyalty party, klan, german, national, hitler, socialist, same, membership, became, white, after, year, socialism, official, nazis, members, jews, group, general, years, workers', through, states, state, society, republic, program, organizations, organization, new, neo-nazi, ku, klux, klansmen, joined