The Ku Klux Klan

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This paper explains that the Ku Klux Klan was originally a fraternal organization located primarily in the south, which grew out of the Civil War in America and was made-up of Confederate soldiers to protect and preserve the white race and ensure "voluntary separation" of the races and even extinction of blacks, Catholics and Jews. The author points out that, after the original Klan was disorganized because of its violence, the reorganized Klan, had a greater success at recruiting in the U.S. mid-west than in the south, was to a greater degree Republican and was influential throughout the United States with major political influence on politicians in several states. The paper relates that ironically the Ku Klux Klan bases their beliefs on Christianity and some of the larger KKK organizations currently in operation include the Church of the American Knights of the KKK.

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"According to the Georgia Encyclopedia, the first Klan was never well organized. It had no membership rosters, no dues, no newspapers, no spokesman, no chapters, no local officers, no state or national officials. Its popularity came from its reputation. When the masks came off what was found was a chaotic multitude of anti-Black vigilante groups, disgruntled poor white farmers, wartime guerrilla bands, displaced democratic politicians, illegal whiskey distillers, coercive moral reformers, bored young men, sadists, rapists, white workmen fearful of black competition, employers trying to enforce labor discipline, common thieves, neighbors with decades-old grudges, and even a few freedmen and white republicans who allied with democratic whites or had criminal agendas of their own."

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