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History of the KKK
Title: History of the KKK
Category: History
Details: Words: 682 | Pages: 2.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
History of the KKK
In the late 1800's the Ku Klux Klan was formed as a social club by a group of Confederate Army veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee around 1865. A Confederate General, Nathan Bedford Forrest, was the Klan's first leader, whose title was the Grand Wizard. The group adopted the name Ku Klux Klan from the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle, and the English word clan.
White superiority was the philosophy of the Klan, and they would often use violence and terrorization of blacks as a means of exercising …showed first 85 words of 682 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 682 total…Klan members murdered a black youth in 1981. Because of this violent activity, interest in the Ku Klux Klan has declined. This, coupled with some prosecutions for illegal activities, reduced KKK membership in the South to about 6,000 by the late 1980's. The Ku Klux Klan often refers to itself as the Fifth Era of the Klan and uses the title the Invisible Empire. The Klan is no longer known just as the Ku Klux Klan, but rather uses the title Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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