what were some of the things the ku klux klan did?

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i'm studying for my sats

Answer 1

One of the worst recent things involved dragging a black man behind a truck. He was chained to the back of the truck and dragged to death. That was in Texas. A law was passed granting compensation to the man's family, because the State of Texas was fully aware of the Klan, its activities and the identity of the individuals committing hate crimes but did nothing about it. The bill was vetoed by the person who was then Governor there.

The KKK and other groups grew up as a reaction to the carpet-bag era in the south. The Republican party had wanted to deport rich white southerners after the civil war and steal their property. Lincoln was against his party on that issue as well as the slavery issue, and very nearly was not nominated for reelection as a result.

After the war, the reconstruction policies of the republicans resulted in great abuses and great hatred in the south, and caused the rise of hate/terrorist groups like the KKK. Much of the racial hatred that still exists stems from that era.

The KKK targets blacks, American Indians, asians, catholics, jews, and hispanics in particular. There best recognized implement of terror is the burning cross. You still see them from time to time. The last one I saw was on the property of a hispanic family north of Sacramento, right after Sachartzenegger became governor of Calif., four years ago.

The KKK was the first American hate group to be named as terrorists by Homeland Security. To date none of them have been arrested, or even inconvieneced in their activities.

Answer 2

They were and ARE a terrorist organization. They believe in white supremacy. They hate blacks, jews, any immigrants, and homosexuals. They use terror and threats backed up by violence to intimidate their foes. The years following the loss of the Civil War found the Ku Klux Klan swelling to incredible numbers in the south. They regularly enforced their backward form of justice by burning crosses AND blacks. They lynched many black people. They forced blacks away from the voting places and schools. They had judges, law enforcement, and even congressmen among their backward thinking group. They were a force to be reckoned with and like all terrorist groups they kept their individual identity secret. They still exist, but not in the numbers or with the power they once had. Today they are more of a Jerry Springer sideshow than anything else, but they do still kill from time to time and the most certainly teach their hate to anyone who will listen, especially their own children.

Answer 3

I have read the answers above mine and with the exception of maybe one they are all biased with what the media has programmed into your little brains. Although they do still exist todays KKK are radicals who have no self respect and little for any other person. I don't hold with the beliefs but they need to get back to the original thought-PROTECTION OF THE FAMILIES.

Nathan Bedford Forrest was also one of the original Grand Wizards of the Ku Klux Klan."The Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee in the winter of 1865-66. The group adopted the name Ku Klux Klan from the Greek word "kyklos," meaning circle, and the English word clan. In the summer of 1867, the Klan became the "Invisible Empire of the South" at a convention in Nashville, Tennessee attended by delegates from former Confederate states. The group was presided over General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who is believed to have been the first Grand Wizard -- the title for the head of the organization. Lesser officers were given such names as Grand Dragon, Grand Titan, and Grand Cyclops. Dressed in robes and sheets, intended to prevent identification by the occupying federal troops (and supposedly designed to frighten blacks), the Klan quickly became a terrorist organization in service of the Democratic Party and white supremacy. Between 1869 and 1871 its goal was to destroy Congressional Reconstruction by murdering blacks -- and some whites -- who were either active in Republican politics or educating black children.
The Klan burned churches and schools and drove thousands of people out of their homes. Because local law enforcement officials were unable or unwilling to stop the Klan, Congress passed the Force Bill in 1871, giving the federal government the power to prosecute the Klan. Dedicated prosecutors managed to win convictions and break up Klan activity. Although relatively few people were punished, federal action did put an end to most Klan activities.

William J. Simmons, a former Methodist preacher, organized a new Klan in Stone Mountain, Georgia in 1915 as a patriotic, Protestant fraternal society. This new Klan directed its activity against not just blacks, but immigrants, Jews, and Roman Catholics. The Ku Klux Klan grew rapidly from there and had more than two million members throughout the country by the mid-1920s. D.W. Griffith's film THE BIRTH OF A NATION, which glorified the Klan and denigrated blacks, was used as a recruiting tool.

Although the Klan still reverted to burning crosses, torturing and murdering those whom they opposed, the organization became a powerful political force in the 1920s. Many state public officials throughout the nation were members. Eventually the organization was weakened by disagreements among the leadership and because of public criticism of Klan violence. By 1944 the Ku Klux Klan had lost most of its influence and membership. It was revived during the Civil Rights era and continues today as a small organization that continues to stage demonstrations in favor of white supremacy and fundamentalist Christian theology.

-- Richard Wormser

Answer 4

The Ku Klux Klan is a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States, the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and local organizations around the country. More than 40 different Klan groups exist, many having multiple chapters, or “klaverns,” including a few that boast a presence in a large number of states. There are over a hundred different Klan chapters around the country, with a combined strength of members and associates that may total around 5,000. After a period of relative quiet, Ku Klux Klan activity has spiked noticeably upwards in 2006, as Klan groups have attempted to exploit fears in America over gay marriage, perceived “assaults” on Christianity, crime and especially immigration. At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants.

Answer 5

The ku klux klan were a very nasty collection of individuals who thought themselves Superior to black people.
The were the ultimate bullies who covered their faces and gathered in groups to assault burn and kill black people.
You don't get human beings much more evil than these people and their beliefs still continue to this day.

Answer 6

they lynched( a.k.a murdered and hanged) black people, we're doing this in history at the mo
they went around in whites sheets, thinking they were fighting for a cause, that they were better than anybody with a different skin colour
the horrible thing is, that this is still going on, if you type koo-klux-klan into yahoo, it comes up with a fansite, i wish we could put an end to this kind of racism

Answer 7

The Klan used violence and intimidation to control the political and social status of the freed slaves. Specifically, it attempted to curb black education, economic advancement, voting rights, and the right to bear arms. Although the Klan's focus was mainly African Americans, they also targeted Southern white Republicans for intimidation. The violence often was successful in making people afraid to act. For example, in the April 1868 Georgia gubernatorial election, Columbia County voters cast 1,222 votes for Republican Rufus Bullock. By the November presidential election, voting declined drastically. Only one voter in the county dared to vote for the Republican candidate Ulysses S. Grant.[11]

Klan intimidation was often targeted at schoolteachers and operatives of the Federal Freedmen's Bureau. Black members of the Loyal Leagues were also the frequent targets of Klan raids. In a typical episode in Mississippi, according to the Congressional inquiry[12]
“ One of those teachers, (Miss Allen of Illinois), whose school was at Cotton Gin Port in Monroe County, was visited ... between one and two o'clock in the morning on March, 1871, by about fifty men mounted and disguised. Each man wore a long white robe and his face was covered by a loose mask with scarlet stripes. She was ordered to get up and dress which she did at once and then admitted to her room the captain and lieutenant who in addition to the usual disguise had long horns on their heads and a sort of device in front. The lieutenant had a pistol in his hand and he and the captain sat down while eight or ten men stood inside the door and the porch was full. They treated her "gentlemanly and quietly" but complained of the heavy school-tax, said she must stop teaching and go away and warned her that they never gave a second notice. She heeded the warning and left the county, Taken from wikipeida

Answer 8

Shot blacks, hung blacks, burned blacks, whipped blacks......
get the picture? The one thing I heard about the klan doing that was decent, was in a story my grandmother told me. It seems there was this white guy, who drank up his paycheck every week and wasn't supporting his wife and children. The Klan showed up at his door one night, dragged him out of the house, tied him to a tree, ripped his shirt off, and cracked a whip close to his head a few times. They never really struck him, but they told him if he didn't straighten up, they would come back and finish the job. He quit drinking and became a model citizen after that.

Answer 9

They harrassed people who were not white or Christian in the name of God, which to me is unspeakable. They not only had a hatred for black people, but Catholics and Jewish people as well, and many people don't realize that. Having lived in Alabama most all of my life, I know that there are still people alive today who did things in the 60's to black Americans, Jews and Catholics. As far as I know, there are still groups of the KKK active here in Alabama, although very secretive. It's disgusting and shameful.

Answer 10

They hurt and even killed African American people and sometimes ran them out of town and burned crosses on their lawns to scare them. It is a horrible part of our history. The Klan still exists today. They also hate Jewish people and any others who disagree with them. They preach the holocost never happened. They are traitors and should be driven out of our country.