the ku klux klan was only opposed to african-americans?

Question

true o false

Answer 1

False.
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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the nation's largest and most enduring terrorist group, founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. It waged a violent campaign against newly freed black slaves who exercised their rights and the whites who supported Reconstruction.

The Klan's second incarnation came in 1915.
A Georgia preacher named William Simmons broadened the scope of Klan bigotry to also include Catholics, Jews, and new immigrants, in addition to African-Americans.
He also sculpted Klan ideology to embrace Christian fundamentalism and fanatical patriotism-trends that are present today in the ideological framework of the Patriot movement.

While the Klan today, with only 4,000 members nationally, is a mere shadow of its former self, Klan methods and ideology have played a key role in the evolution of American bigotry, antigovernment politics and paramilitary extremism.

Answer 2

False ,at least at the time of its conception,its purpose was to protect white citizens from the newly freed negroes, and the influx of white trash from the northern states as well as a lot of dishonorable southern personsand border ruffians.At the time bands of rabble and ex slaves were looting and pillaging thruout parts of the occupied south and the defeated ex-confederates had no recourse thru the army of reconstruction. The founders of the KKK ,nathan forrest among them ordered the Klan disbanded by 1868 because it was becoming too radical to control...The new "kkk" formed as a hate group in the early 20th century having no ties to the roots of the original group,but merely existing for the most part to spread racial and religious hatred and violence,along with a violently enforced segregationism and oppression of minorities, targeting mainly ******,jews,catholics and homosexuals tho not exclusively.

Answer 3

They started out with African Americans, then the movement died down until Dixon wrote his book and Griffith made Birth of a Nation. The revived movement of the twenties was anti Catholic, Anti Jew, anti foreigner, and anti communist.

Today, they focus on Jews, African Americans, Immigrants, Gays, foreigners and people who don't like the Klan.

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Answer 4

At least not initially in the post Civil War years, they were after the 'carpet baggers' and newly freed slaves. The turn of the century saw the most violent acts against blacks, on up through the 60s. In the modern era, it included the Jews, Gays, Communists, and other assorted left wingers, as well as the Blacks.

Answer 5

False. Like many hate-based groups, they started out with a single focus (in this case, African-Americans), then spread out to others (such as Jews) who do not agree with them or stand in their way of achieving what they perceive to be their goal. Therefore, you can be a white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant and still be a target if you speak out against them.

Answer 6

False- Though it started out that way, it soon spread to other people, from Irish-Americans, to Jews, to Catholics, etc. The only people welcomed among their ranks are White Protestant Males. Though there are exceptions to that.

Answer 7

My grandfather told me there were a few KKK cross burnings in central Pennsylvania during the 1920s, and we did not have an African American person within 25 miles in any direction.
He said they were demonstrating against the Catholics in town.

Answer 8

False. I've been on their website and supposedly they're against Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and homosexuals.

Answer 9

They opposed the Jews, Irish and african americans.

Answer 10

False. They also attacked Jews.