My friend and I were wondering exactely what the KKK was, and what they did.?

Question

Im just over at my friends house and shes wants to know what the KKK is. I told her that they were an extreme christian group who did bad things... But i didn't explain it very well, please help!

For the perosn who wants to know why i posted it here: For one I DID search the internet, and I thought this site was to find out questions, I have a question. Thanks for your answer? And it's intertesting to get it from different views... Just so you know.

Answer 1

The KKK originally started as a group of Civil War sore loosers who wanted to get even with black people because they were no longer slaves. They believe in persecution of those who are not of the White race and they have thrown God into their doctrine.

Answer 2

KKK = Ku Klux Klan.

They are a supremist group originated in the South after the abolition of Slavery. Because they can no longer legally own black people, they wanted to find a way to keep the black people in line and keep them from reaching the true status of free man. Black people were free as long as they knew their "place". They perceive educated African Americans as a threat to their "white society" existence. KKK tortured, terrorized, and killed blacks. Even after 141 years since the abolition of slavery, there are still white supremist groups out there that are derived from the KKK and the Nazis.

Answer 3

Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy, anti-Semitism, racism, anti-Catholicism, homophobia, and nativism. These organizations have often used terrorism, violence and acts of intimidation such as cross burning to oppress African Americans and others.

The Klan's first incarnation was in 1865 by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. It quickly adopted violent methods. A rapid reaction set in, with the Klan's leadership disowning violence, and Southern elites seeing the Klan as an excuse for federal troops to continue their activities in the South. The organization was in decline from 1868 to 1870 and was destroyed in the early 1870s by President Ulysses S. Grant's vigorous action under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act).

The founding, in 1915, of a second distinct group using the same name was inspired by the newfound power of the modern mass media, via the film The Birth of a Nation and inflammatory anti-Semitic newspaper accounts surrounding the trial and lynching of accused murderer Leo Frank. The second KKK was a formal membership organization, with a national and state structure, that paid thousands of men to organize local chapters all over the country. Millions joined and, at its peak in the 1920s, the organization included about 15% of the nation's eligible population. The second KKK typically preached racism, anti-Catholicism, anti-Communism, nativism, and anti-Semitism, and some local groups took part in lynchings and other violent activities. Its popularity fell during the Great Depression, and membership fell further during World War II, due to scandals resulting from prominent members' crimes and its support of the Nazis.

The name "Ku Klux Klan" has since been used by many different unrelated groups, including many who opposed the Civil Rights Act and desegregation in the 1950s and 1960s, with members of these groups eventually being convicted of murder and manslaughter in the deaths of Civil Rights workers and children (such as in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Alabama). Today, dozens of organizations with chapters across the United States and other countries use all or part of the name in their titles, but their total membership is estimated to be only a few thousand. These groups, with operations in separated small local units, are considered extreme hate groups. The modern KKK has been repudiated by all mainstream media and political and religious leaders.

Answer 4

The Ku Klux Klan was formed by some Southern soldiers after the Civil War. It was based on anger for the fact they lost. They were just haters, even
hating white Catholics, which some seem to think is not even a Christian
Religion. But Catholic just means Universal.

Answer 5

Try googling it, but Ku Klux Klan, they're those people who wear white hoods and they're against a lot of things, Catholics, Jews, people of different colors, but they're most famous for being against African Americans, especially during the twentieth century. They burned down African American's businesses, homes, prevented them from voting and did some lynching (hanging) of them. That's the KKK in a nutshell. They're very rare nowadays, and not quite that extreme.

Answer 6

The KKK was a Fifties rock 'n roll band called the Kool Kolored Kids, or are you talking about the fraternal organization known as Katholics, Koons and Kikes?

Answer 7

Firstly, if they were real Christians; would they: 1) burn crosses, I think not, and 2): discriminate against people based on race? No, I don't think so. People justify their bigotry in strange ways, and I also understand many white supremacist groups are secular or believe in many different religions. Don't bash, please - nobody who had examined them closely would describe them as a 'Christian' group. Yuck.
There's probably a good link on Wikipedia, or you could Google it. Please describe things with more care in the future.

Answer 8

Why don't you search the Internet for you answer instead of posting the question here.

Answer 9

They're called the "Ku Klux Klan". It was formed in the 19th century. It used terrorist attacks to supress black people.

Answer 10

You were correct as far as you went. The Ku Klux Klan was (and still is) a group of white supremacists who objected to full citizenship for black people and tried to "keep them in their place" by intimidation of various forms: cross burnings, assaults, and occasionally murder. Their importance has diminished in recent years.