2007-10-07 12:37:33 · 9 answers · asked by Skittles 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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http://search.yahoo.com/search?search=Ku+Klux+Klan&ei=UTF-8&fr=ks-ans&ico-yahoo-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAsj5BmW8vqUyHf5juTRte18azKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D11igankfv%2FEXP%3D1191886780%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fsearch.yahoo.com%2Fsearch&ico-wikipedia-search-value=http%3A%2F%2Frds.yahoo.com%2F_ylt%3DAvFi.URRTuFvdVdw2AefL8sazKIX%3B_ylv%3D0%2FSIG%3D121q2uh1j%2FEXP%3D1191886780%2F*-http%253A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSpecial%253aSearch&p=Ku+Klux+Klan
2007-10-07 12:40:31 · answer #1 · answered by Jason 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The founders were determined to come up with something unusual and mysterious. Being well-educated, they turned to Greek. After tossing around a number of ideas, Richard R. Reed suggested the word "kuklos," from which the English words "circle and "cycle" are derived. Another member, Captain John B. Kennedy, had an ear for alliteration and added the word "clam." After tinkering with the sound for a while, group settled on the "Ku Klux Klan." The selection of the name, chance though it was, had a great deal to do with the Klan's early success. Something about the sound aroused curiosity and gave the fledgling club an immediate air of mystery, as did the initials K.K.K., which were soon to take on such terrifying significance
2007-10-07 12:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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 original Ku Klux Klan was created after the end of the American Civil War on December 24, 1865, by six educated, middle-class Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, who were bored with postwar routine. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (κυκλος,circle) with "clan"
2007-10-07 12:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by claudiacake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Post Confederacy Civil war soldiers came up with the idea with a more altruistic purpose--specifically a Confederate General. But rednecks and morons took over the organization, and made it into the close minded stupidity that it was not supposed to be.
Much like the NAACP, Black Panthers and Rainbow League
2007-10-07 12:41:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I have read, but I am not sure, that "ku klux" was meant to be the sound of a rifle ******.
2007-10-07 12:45:31 · answer #5 · answered by steve_geo1 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wikipedia says the name came from the Greek: "kyklos" or circle, and "clan", meaning family or group. The spelling of clan with a "k" is to make it more ominous.
2007-10-07 12:41:43 · answer #6 · answered by Bryce 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their name reportedly is derived from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle or band;
2007-10-07 12:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by Bob Thompson 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
klan is from clan ; i thing the rest is nonsence syllables
2007-10-07 12:40:26 · answer #8 · answered by Nora 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
cuz their freakin retarded. seriously, who cares? racists need to get hobbies, stop blaming other races for their screwed up lives!
2007-10-07 12:40:45 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋