Cited: Chalmers, David M. New York: Double Day and Company, 1965. 1-420.
Cited: Chalmers, David M. New York: Double Day and Company, 1965. 1-420.
How useful is Source A (p65) for studying American attitudes towards the KKK during the 1920s? (10)…
The Ku Klux Klan (also known as KKK) is the name of a number of different secret Caucasian organizations in the United States mainly because of their violent racist activities. The Ku Klux Klan was formed in 1865 or 1866 in Pulaski as a local club by six former members of the Confederate army. They dressed up as ghosts on horseback to terrorize slavery black population. Soon, large parts of Tennessee followed KKK and set them as example. Many departments of the KKK are established. On May, 1865, president Andrew Johnson pardoned Southern leaders of the defeated former confederacy. After that, the Southern States highly discriminatory laws against blacks were proclaimed. The liberation of the slaves was almost reversed. The US Congress declared these laws to be void and decided to reconstruct of most Southern States on…
This KKK was a group of Confederate soldiers and functioned all through the Reconstruction period (1863-1877). This confidential society was collected and buttress tactics by former Confederate soldiers, poverty-stricken American crop growers, and American Southerners who were compassionate about white dominance. Heterogeneous, preceding Southern rascal organization, the KKK was an arranged terrorist organization that put discouragement in people's souls and brutality in a methodical fashion. That procedure constituted a violent political strength that sought to impact capacity connection, which incorporates demolishing the Republican Party's framework, at the conclusion Reconstruction, directing the Southern African Americans inhabitants , and restore the lessons of American dominance in Southern states. Associates of the KKK were able to spread discouragement into people’s soul all the way through the South by charming in the partisan scheme, such as scourges, whipping, pyromania and, the worst thing of all,…
. . . many states had take action to fight the Ku Klux Klan, to oppose the Ku Klux Klan’s movements; law enforcement officials tried to arrest the accused Klansmen. It was not easy since it was difficult to find witnesses to testify against them. In that case, Republican state governments in the South turned to Congress for help, which result in the passage of three Enforcement Acts, the strongest of which was the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871. The act authorized the president to suspend the writ of habeas corpus and arrest, accused individuals without charge, and to send federal forces to suppress Klan violence” (History.com Staff). From the early 1870s along, white dominance gradually maintained its hold on the South as reinforcement…
In the timespan of 1860, the beginning of the Civil War, to 1877, the end of Reconstruction, many social and constitutional developments took place. Such developments included secession of the south, disputes over civil liberties such as voting, the ending of slavery, and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments. These expansions were very revolutionary to an extent but due to the intrusion of white supremacist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, couldn’t fully prosper.…
Hiram W. Evans' "The Klan's Fight for Americanism" tries to enlighten audiences to his view point. That view point being the Klan's feeling that America is being lost to liberal ideologies and cold intellectualistic direction. He emphasizes the de-Americanizing' issues facing the country such as the reason World War I occurred and why the Jews hold such control over financial institutions. He states the problem with the Klan's credibility lies in their lack of ability in public speaking, and current poverty conditions afflicting his infamous group. I plan to summarize this article in my opinion in what follows.…
By the time 1925 rolled around, membership had rocketed to a staggering four million members. This meant that the Klan had grown to have immense power and granted near immunity for its members. They were only arrested for very, very serious crimes, which was incredibly rare, and even so, they were never convicted. For this piece, I will be focusing on the Klan and its growth and development in Maine during the 1920s resurgence. Something rather interesting about the Maine chapter of the Klan is that contrary to most other sections of the clan, it actually wasn’t anti-Jew or anti-Roman Catholic. It was simply Protestant Christian, “first, last, and all the time.” This had a slightly different effect on the population of Maine in comparison to the rest of the country, with the anti-nearly-everything divisions of the Klan. The Klan in Maine rose from nearly nothing, yet a still considerably large number of Klansmen, 23,000 in 1923, to its peak of 150,141 in 1925. It grew so gargantuan that it represented nearly a quarter of the entire population of Maine. Unfortunately for the Klan, it then declined quickly and was just barely alive, at a measly 221 members by 1930. Although the relationship…
The governors elected in the 1920’s had help from the KKK and also controlled State Legislatures in the Western States of Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Oregon (Ku Klux Klan in Washington State). At the national level, the Klan is alleged to have elected dozens of Senators and Congressmen in the 1920’s (Ku Klux Klan in Washington State). Alabama Governor David Bibb Graves was Cyclops of the Montgomery chapter (“The History of the KKK in American Politics.”). He served two terms, starting in 1927 (“The History of the KKK in American Politics.”). In Denver, Klansmen held the offices of head of public safety, city attorney, chief of police, and several judgeships, and they were behind the election of its mayor. (“The History of the KKK in American Politics.”). The local government and also the people in power were scared and had to submit to the the KKK wanted from them or they would lose the majority of the white voters and also their…
From 1860 to 1877 America fought a bloody Civil War and went through a “Reconstruction” era from that war. During this time period changes to the Constitution, such as the 15th Amendment that granted African American men the right to vote, caused what is now viewed as a revolution. The formation of the Ku Klux Klan in 1865 exemplifies a social change that stirred the pot of revolution in a different way. Put together, the social and constitutional changes that America witnessed during and after the Civil War were the driving circumstances that ushered in this new era, which is viewed as a revolution.…
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty Negroes who had occupied a courthouse. There were barely armed former slaves that were knifed, burned, smoked out of a courthouse, and gunned down by a white posse angry over an 1872 Republican election victory. “the Ku Klux Klan declared. Its goals were “to protect the weak, innocent and defenseless,” and “to protect the constitution on the Untied States.[1] The United States passed the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, putting an end to almost 250…
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920’s was a movement unlike anything the world had seen before. Although many scholars view it differently, when focusing on the definition of mainstream as the ideas, attitudes, or activities shared by most people and regarded as normal or conventional, the KKK of the 1920’s falls within those boundaries. As Lay states, “[while] its earlier and later namesakes were either confined almost exclusively to the south or were relatively small in size, this organization demonstrated great appeal among mainstream elements across the nation, attracting millions of members…” (2014, p. 157). Also, this second Invisible Empire’s ideology was not as single-mindedly focused on race as one may believe (chnm).…
Another interesting fact that I learned from this book is that the main reason why the KKK was created was because they wanted to threaten and to test the rights of people and the United States of America’s democracy. They mainly wanted to begin this group because they were angry that the Confederate soldiers lost the war and they wanted to get back at America. Mostly former confederate soldiers were involved in this, until it began to spread all over the south and then later across the country.…
Anxiety and suspicions of immigrants and Catholics contributed to a few organizations. None captured the imagination of the country like the Ku Klux Klan (American Yawp). Hiram Evans in “The Klan’s fight for Americanism” says, “There are three of these great racial instincts, vital elements in both the historic and the present…
Spreading anti-foreign, anti-Catholic, anti-black, anti-Jewish, anti-pacifist, anti-Communist, anti-internationalist, pro-Anglo-Saxon, pro-native American, and pro-Protestant sentiments, the Klan led an extreme, ultraconservative uprising against many of the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture. The KKK spread with astonishing rapidity, especially in the Midwest and the Bible Belt South, wielding potent political influence and an attachment of nearly 5 million dues-paying members. As Hiram W. Evans explained in The Klans Fight for Americanism from The North American Review, we are intolerant of everything that strikes at the foundations of our race, our country or our freedom of worship. Evans felt threatened by any attempt to use the privileges and opportunities which aliens hold only as through our generosity as levers to force us to change our civilization. The Klan was indeed an alarming manifestation of the intolerance and prejudice plaguing people anxious about the dizzying pace of social change in the 1920s; the last thing they wanted was unrestricted…
The Ku Klux Klan began in Pulaski, Tennessee, a small town south of Nashville. On the night of December 24, 1865 six ex-confederate soldiers were sitting around a fireplace it the law office of Judge Thomas M. Jones.(Invisible Empire, p.9) These six friends were having a discussion and were trying to come up with an idea to cheer themselves up. One of the men suggested that they should start a club and the rest of the men agreed with the idea. After discussing…