What exactly were the Ku Klux Klan?

Answer 1

A bunch of hatemongers that should have been executed by a firing squad.

Answer 2

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 other groups.

The Klan's first incarnation was in 1866. Founded 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. The KKK 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).


William Joseph Simmons founded the second Ku Klux Klan in 1915.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 3

Louis Farakkhan is the modern-day chief of the NoI. The NoI became depending interior the early 1900's by technique of a guy named Wallace F. Mohammed. later on, Elijah Mohammed grew to develop into the chief of the team, and he, i imagine ,became seen a prophet, even as Wallace became supposedly GOD in human style. The NOI also believed that whites were the devil of this earth. And the whites were no longer allowed to hitch the NOI... undergo in ideas, the country of Islam got here about in a time even as blacks weren't so good because the white Malcolm X also joined the NOI, yet later grew to develop into Sunni after he went to Hajj.

Answer 4

They still are alive and hating unfortunately. These people hat anyone who is not pure white. They think that white skin and blue eyes make than better, and smarter. Go figure! It doesn't make any sense to me.