Kkk
Essay by 24 • September 4, 2010 • 535 Words (3 Pages) • 1,247 Views
The Ku Klux Klan is the organisation in USA that has been torturing and harassing
The Black people living in America since they entered America as workers. They are
racist people who believe
that the Whites are superior to other races.The Ku Klux Klan's
long history of violence grew out of the resentment and hatred many white Southerners
felt in the aftermath of the Civil War. Blacks, having won the struggle for freedom from
slavery, were now faced with a new struggle against widespread racism and the terrorism
of the Ku Klux Klan. Ironically, the Klan was born from simple idleness, created as a
social club by six young Confederate veterans of the Civil War. All six was well-
educated, relatvely affluent, and each had passed the war as an officer. They called this
secret group which they created of boredom, The Ku Klux Klan that is from kuklos; Greek
for circle.While the menace of the KKK has peaked and waned over the years, it has never
vanished. The Klan, when it was first founded, it sabotaged Reconstruction governments
and imposed a reign of terror and violence. After three years it came to an end, The Klan
was no longer present. After World War I The Klan was reborn but this time in a much
different style. This research will dig into the deepest facts and aspects of the Klan and
show how radical and violent it is. The KKK is the biggest terror organisation in the USA
that was and still is a threat to Black people in America and such a terror cannot be
accepted, not in the present day because we want to live in a peaceful world where
everyone is equal.
One explanation of Southern America's widespread acceptance of the Klan is found in
the institution of slavery. Freedom for slaves represented for many white Southerners a bitter
defeat - a defeat not only of their armies in the field but of their economic and social way of
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