Category: Ku Klux Klan

In reality however, when considering the hypocrisy and lack of evolution after his initial revival of the organisation, he was not as important as he suggested. His knights exercised the lynching of accused murderer Leo Frank for killing young factory worker Mary Phagan after not receiving a life sentence. Despite gaining Northern industrialist support as…

Defining Cults in American History Historians and philosophers have long debated if there can ever be a true definition of a cult. Some have said the difference between a cult and a religion is about two or three generations. Once a cult has survived for that long and appears that future generations will subscribe to…

Radical White Supremacy From the ashes of a deceased Confederacy rose the newly obtained freedom of the former slave. In his wake, the freedman brought with him uncertainty and disunion, laying the foundation for one of the widest ideological divides in American history  the Era of Reconstruction. Initially a period of rehabilitation and effort…

The Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist terrorist group that emerged during Reconstruction. It took violent steps to undermine the Republican party, hoping to maintain black economic instability and ensure white racial and economic superiority. With its long history of violence, is the oldest and most infamous of American hate groups. The KKK did…

Racism: prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that ones own race is superior. The Ku Klux Klan, or the KKK, is a white supremacist group that rose in the southern states of the United States of America in the 1860s. It is undoubtedly a terrorist organization,…

The struggle of racism has hurt many people of color, but has brought upon good fortune from their actions to be treated as citizens of the U.S. The movements that occurred during history, have shaped the black community, giving them hope for the future. These movements have also changed the minds of many whites to…

In true David Duke style, the foundation of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (KKKK) is shrouded in political myth. Duke’s claim that the Knights were founded in 1956 by Ed White (a pseudonym for Jim Lindsay) has, however, been largely discredited as a propagandistic attempt by the budding Klan leader to fend off…

During the 1920s there were a series of social changes, such as: prohibition which was heavily debated as having a large impact on society as it made the majority of people in the cities lawbreakers, the culture war between rural and urban America along with racial tensions in terms of the KKK and the Scopes…