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Ku Klux Klan & The Skinheads, 1989.
Compares two white supremacist groups. Discusses founding & evolution, tactics, violence, racial & religious hatred, uniforms, leadership, organization, recruiting, social reactions & restrictions.
2,475 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 12 sources, $ 87.95
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" And damn his treacherous flattery . . .
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting justice sleeps.
God, give us men!
- excerpt taken from a KKK ritualistic initiation
(Lowe 9)"
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Skinheads & Ku Klux Klan, 1997.
Origins of Klan in 1920s & skinheads in 1990s, shared ideology of hatred, politics, role of media & Internet.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, $ 47.95
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"The Ku Klux Klan is one of the best known white racists' groups in United States history. Following a violent beginning in 1866, the Klan reestablished itself in the early 1900s and by the early 1920s had spread across the country. The Klan preached a message which was characterized as anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish anti-black, anti-socialist and anti-labor union Americanism. Carrying out their own brand of justice, mobs of white-robed, white-hooded men terrorized those members of American society they considered immoral or un-American. At the height of their power in the 1920?s, the Klan had grown to over two million followers. Members enjoyed extensive political power in a number of Southern, Western, and Midwestern states.
The basic message did not change when the Klan reemerged. The original mission of the white Southerners who founded the Klan.."
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The Ku Klux Klan?s Origins During Reconstruction, 2003.
A history of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginnings as a social club during the post-Civil War Reconstruction period to its eventual weakening at the hands of the U.S. government in the 1870s.
4,354 words (approx. 17.4 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 114.95
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This paper deals with a description of the history of the Ku Klux Klan from its foundation in 1866 as a social group of ex-Confederate soldiers to its "death" in the early 1870s after a crackdown by the U.S. government on Klan activities. The paper begins with a brief history of Reconstruction and the attempts by the north to bring about a peaceful unity with the south once again. The limitations put on former Confederates is emphasized as one of the main reasons for the Klan's birth, as many ex-Confederates felt that the north had completely erased any power that they had, or would ever, hold in southern politics. The paper then shifts to the Klan itself, citing journal entries by one of the six original founders for the details of how the Klan began as a social club meant to simply pass the time during Reconstruction. The Klan grew from its humble beginnings however to something more sinister, spouting out racial superiority against the freed blacks and attempting to win political power for whites in the south. Members of the Klan felt betrayed by the United States Congress for giving so much to African-Americans after the Civil War, and acting through the disguise of the Ku Klux Klan's ceremonial "hoods", they were able to enact their own justice through anonymity. The paper also gives a detailed breakdown of the organization of the first Ku Klux Klan, from regional outlets to its first supreme leader, the infamous Confederate cavalry war veteran, Nathan Bedford Forrest. Citing Forrest's actions during the war and his obvious hatred for African-Americans in all of his rhetoric, the paper demonstrates that although Forrest would attempt to hide his involvement with the Klan after a United States investigation, his guilt is well established. The paper ends with the early 1870s Congressional investigation of the Klan and the restrictions that were placed upon it under President Grant.
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"The representatives assigned mythical names to their roles of leadership, giving more to that aura of secrecy and intrigue that drew more members into the Klan. The supreme officer of the Klan would be known as "The Grand Wizard of the Empire" and would have full control over Klan activities in the South. Below him would be Grand Dragons, who would organize statewide Klan activity. To rule over individual chapters of the Klan, the presidents of regional Ku Klux Klan sections would be known as the Grand Cyclops. This class structure continues down to the standard member, who ironically would be known as "Ghouls"."
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The Ku Klux Klan, 2007.
An analysis of the Ku Klux Klan as domestic terrorists.
2,276 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 70.95
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This paper contends that the Ku Klux Klan is arguably one of the most easily recognized hate groups and looks at how its activities and strongly held beliefs easily define it as one of the most dangerous domestic terrorist groups in American history. It attempts to show that the Ku Klux Klan has met and continues to meet the legal requirements set forth in the United States Code to be labeled a terrorist group.
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"Though the beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan may not be particularly tasteful for mainstream Americans, the philosophies themselves are perfectly legal and the rights of the Klan to subscribe to and distribute these beliefs are, in fact, protected under the First Amendment. However, it is not the beliefs that are under scrutiny here, it is the clear, convicted criminal behavior that has won the Klan the label of domestic terrorists. Many Klan members enjoy lashing out verbally knowing that they speak from the safety of the First Amendment umbrella, however, messages of such strong hate and radical beliefs seem to inevitably explode into action."
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Domestic Terrorism and the Ku Klux Klan, 2008.
This paper explains why the Ku Klux Klan can be considered a domestic terrorist group.
2,282 words (approx. 9.1 pages), 7 sources, APA, $ 70.95
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The paper discusses how the Ku Klux Klan uses violence and different subversive means to promote their beliefs and racial convictions. The paper refers to the FBI definition of a domestic terrorist group and shows how in the light of their means used and their motivations, the Ku Klux Klan can be considered one of the first domestic terrorist groups of the US.
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"Terrorism has become in recent decades one of the most important phenomena affecting the society, both inside a state and at the international level. The events that took place in the US on September 11, 2001 represented an alarm signal for the world that terrorism is a flagellum that would influence the evolution of international relations to a degree never met before.
"There are other forms of violence manifested inside a country which do not receive the same international attention. Domestic terrorism is one of them. Taking into account the fact that in most cases domestic terrorism is a matter which must be dealt with by the exercise of a state's sovereignty over its territory it rarely becomes the focus of international attention."
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The Ku Klux Klan, 2006.
This paper discusses the history of the Ku Klux Klan.
1,345 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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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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Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan, 2005.
A look at the link between the 13th Amendment, Reconstruction, and circumscription of federal constitutional authority as they related to the Black Codes and the Ku Klux Klan.
1,514 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 12 sources, MLA, $ 49.95
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This paper analyzes two examples of state circumvention of the de facto constitutional authority of the 13th Amendment to protect black Americans against the severe limitations on their day-to-day rights and freedoms formerly imposed by slavery. It shows that, by enacting the Black Codes, starting in 1865 following the 13th Amendment, however, and by giving birth, in 1866, to the Ku Klux Klan and its reign of terror over the freed men, the southern states successfully circumvented the actual enjoyment by blacks of most of the freedoms granted them by the 13th Amendment.
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"Through its clandestine activities that terrorized the blacks, the Ku Klux Klan effectively, even if not legally, more or less enslaved them using fear, despite the freedom granted them by the 13th Amendment. Clearly, the 13th Amendment did not entirely free them, then: it was not until 1871 that "Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which gave the federal courts jurisdiction over conspiracies against the freedmen and authorized the President . . . to declare martial law in any terrorized community" (Carman 739). Even then, however, various state laws continued to interfere with federal laws protecting blacks, and even well into the 20th century, "The Supreme Court nullified laws Congress passed to protect African Americans from intimidation and murder by lawless mobs" (Reconstruction 7)."
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The Ku Klux Klan: An Analysis of White Supremacy, 2006.
A look at the lasting effects on African-Americans of the Ku Klux Klan.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 10 sources, $ 133.95
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The Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Abraham Lincoln while the Civil War was still raging promised freedom and equality to blacks held in slavery, and led to high expectations among the millions of slaves living in the American South. But it also triggered the emergence of racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, which used intimidation, brutality, and violence against blacks throughout the South. This paper discusses the effects of the virulent racism of the KKK and the support for this organization throughout the South, explaining that the KKK forced millions of blacks to live in fear, humiliation and hopeless despair for decades.
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The Ku Klux Klan: A Defunct American Terrorist Group, 2006.
This paper argues that the Ku Klux Klan, at one time a feared terrorist-type organization throughout the South in the US, has little if any political and social clout remaining.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 7 sources, $ 89.95
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This essay argues that the Klan's authority and effectiveness as a terrorist organization has diminished in recent years as the organization has fragmented and has been unable to attract new members in significant numbers. The threat posed by the Ku Klux Klan, while not to be taken lightly, should no longer constitute a major focus of law enforcement agencies in the United States. The modern KKK isn't an active terrorist group, so much as it is an historical artifact, the remains of an organization that once used terrorist tactics to keep much of the nation afraid.
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"In November 1999, eighteen members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in New York City for a rally promoting their decidedly white supremacist beliefs. They stood silent for their rally because the courts denied them any sound equipment. Meanwhile, a counter-protest developed around the KKK rally, which attracted more than 6,000 New Yorkers. This latter group was there to protest the existence of the KKK and the rally that they were holding (Hentoff, 2001). The anti-KKK protesters had more than three hundred times the attendees as did the actual Ku Klux Klan. This disparity tells us quite a bit about the social and political clout that the Klan currently wields. The term "Ku Klux Klan" is used to denote any number of past terrorist organizations that have operated in the United States, under the loose banner of white supremacy."
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Ku Klux Klan, 2006.
A personal review on the Ku Klux Klan and its changes.
1,886 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 60.95
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This paper comes to discuss the Ku Klux Klan and how it has changed into a more moderate organization, not to be confused with Neo-Nazi followings. The author explores the reasons for joining the Klan, mainly because of a fervent belief that the U. S. was established as a Christian nation. It explores the aims of the Klan today, that of education, introducing prayer back into the school system, preferential hiring practices and jobs for Americans. The paper concludes with the author's personal views on the Klan.
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" Everyone is for improving the environment, so how can you argue with the Klan position on that? Everyone is for better education and not having to bus their children miles and miles away from home. Everyone is for prevention of crime, for getting rid of drugs and drug dealers, for reducing the taxes that now go to the Welfare system. The Klan has struck at the beliefs of the majority of Americans. If nothing else, Duke reassures those who were unwilling to be seen or heard as Klan supporters that it is Okay to share their beliefs."
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?The Ku Klux Klan in the City?.
This paper reviews Kenneth T. Jackson's book, ?The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930?, a valuable look at the second Klan movement.
1,130 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 0 sources, $ 39.95
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This paper examines the way the second Klan movement captured political power in urban centers in the South and the North as portrayed in Kenneth T. Jackson's book, ?The Ku Klux Klan in the City, 1915-1930". The book dispels many of the stereotypes of the Klan as a rural, Southern movement. The author points out that as the Klan grew in prominence it moved into new areas. In the South, it moved into areas such as Knoxville and Dallas. In the North, it expanded into Chicago, Detroit, and Indianapolis, a city which became the center of Klan activity. The Klan also moved west into California, Portland, and Denver. The paper states that, according to Jackson, the Klan's weakness in the political sphere can be largely attributed to its association with racism and intolerance because the Klan found ample opportunity to denounce Catholicism, integration, Judaism, immigration and internationalism as threats to traditional American values.
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"The Ku Klux Klan had a number of strengths and weaknesses in the political sphere. In the south, the Klan held a fair amount of power, even from the late 1910s, and many of its actions were public. In 1918 the Klan played a role in stopping a strike in the shipyards of Mobile by abducting a labor leader and threatening others. A similar scene played out in Birmingham at about the same time. The Klan's defiant stance against criminal elements in Birmingham carried a great deal of political clout in the south. In Nashville, a local police chief advised authorities to start a Klavern in order to help reduce crime in the area. The Klan even participated in a confederate reunion in Atlanta."
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The Ku Klux Klan, 2001.
A look at the history and current activity of the racist organization.
1,640 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 9 sources, MLA, $ 53.95
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The essay discusses the history of the Ku Klux Klan through the three separate movements established since its inception -- the first during the reconstruction era, the second during the 1920's, and the third during the 1940's. The essay then goes on to present recent newspaper headlines about the KKK, including the "newspaper night riding" in Texas and California, the rally in Jasper, Texas, and the sentencing of KKK member James Colvin. The essay concludes with the hope that the KKK will continue to be brought down by the law.
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"Colonel William Joseph Simmons, the son of one of the officers of the original order, initialized the second movement of the KKK. He pictured his organization as the ultimate fraternal lodge. His task was made easier by the 1915 release of a film by D. W. Griffith called The Birth of a Nation. The film portrayed the original Reconstruction era KKK as valiant protectors of the South's culture. Simmons placed advertisements for his organization next to those for the movie and solicited new members by proclaiming the Klan a "high class order for men of intelligence and character" (McVeigh). At the strongest point of this phase of the KKK, during the early 1920's, membership in the organization reached over three million nationwide (Trelease PG). The main factor keeping the movement strong was fear of the ever-changing social order in America. Large numbers of immigrants were entering the country, communism and other radical movements were stirring, and blacks were moving into northern cities in vast numbers. Jews and Catholics were moving to a higher place in the social and economic order, and labor unions were demanding a bigger share of profits for their members."
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Ku Klux Klan, 2002.
Examining the effects that the KKK has had on American society.
2,744 words (approx. 11.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 82.95
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The most influential and oldest white supremacist group in the US is the Ku Klux Klan that was formed in the aftermath of the American Civil War. In this paper the writer takes a detailed look at the background, history and aims of the organization. It also discusses the present state of the Klan and how far its influence still permeates in the US society. Includes very thorough outline.
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"Ever since the abolition of the slavery in the United States, sections of its white population have continued to believe in the superiority of the white race and resent the participation of the blacks in society and politics as equals. Various groups, organizations and societies have been formed since the end of the American Civil War ranging from white supremacist hate and terror groups to relatively harmless ?all-white? social clubs. The most influential and oldest group is the Ku Klux Klan that was formed in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Although it is difficult to strictly categorize phases in the history of such a secretive organization as the Klan, it is generally agreed that there have been three distinct Klan eras in the past and we are perhaps in the midst of the fourth. There have been times in the US history when the Klan has enjoyed widespread membership and influence especially in its first and second phases."
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Ku Klux Klan, 1989.
Discusses resurgence, growth, response of opposing groups and law enforcement.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, $ 63.95
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" Born in the wake of the Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan remains a significant, though lesser, force in American politics today. It constitutes one of the world's earliest terrorist organizations. The organization's specific intent is the advancement of white supremacy. Originally this goal had been sought for the entire United States, but contemporary Klansmen have revised this objective by calling for a separate all-white region in the nation, preferably located in the west. The purpose of this research is to document the history and evolution of the Ku Klux Klan from its origins in the 1860s to its current status in the 1980s.
CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION
Slavery had long been institutionalized into the Southern economy and culture by 1860. Slavery had become so engrafted on (...)"
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Ku Klux Klan & Black Panther Party, 1997.
Examines groups' origins, political ideologies, leadership, racial views, public's attitudes, violence and social impact.
2,700 words (approx. 10.8 pages), 13 sources, $ 95.95
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"Although the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panther Party both employed violence to obtain their objectives, few similarities exist between the two groups. The Ku Klux Klan was committed to maintaining the status quo, white supremacy, in the communities in which it operated. Their objective was to suppress the activities of people of color, whom they perceived as threats to the established order. In contrast, the Black Panthers considered themselves revolutionaries. Their goal was to elevate the oppressed masses of African-Americans and to overthrow the existing political system. Thus, the Klan sought to restore a sense of power to whites, while the Black Panthers sought to gain a rightful share of power for blacks.
The Ku Klux Klan is a name that describes two distinct groups of white racists in American history. The first Klan.."
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