What is the KKK?
Have you ever wondered what the KKK is and who they are or what they are? This article is here to inform you about their past and history. I think it’s important to know about certain groups and this is a very important group that I think everyone should eventually learn about because of the deep impact they have made on society.
Before I talk about the things that they did and do, I will first teach you about who they are and what they are. First the KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan and it is a white supremacist hate group that was immediately founded after the Civil War in the US and lasted until the 1870’s.
One of their first leaders was Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was a confederate general during the Civil War. When the Ku Klux Klan was founded at the end of the United States Civil War, it was made to repress the rights and freedoms of African Americans and in earlier times they were targeting newly freed slaves to achieve domination over the Blacks.
Even after 150 years, it is still an active, domestic terrorist organization. In newer days the Klan’s primary targets were and still are African Americans, Jews, Latinos, Asian Americans, Native Americans, and Catholics, as well as immigrants, leftists, homosexuals, Muslims, and atheists. One way the Klansman intimidate these groups of people is through cross burning.
21st Century Learning teacher, Red (Leticia) Ortiz said, “I know that the KKK is a hate group that targets African Americans and Jews the most. I also know they are some sort of brotherhood that come together and terrorize people because of who they are. These people brainwash others to join and think that African Americans should be targeted.”
According to mtsu.edu, cross burning is when a large group of Klansman gather together in white hoods and robes to burn a cross, but this practice can only be protected by the first amendment if it is not a direct threat to others. This means that the Klansman can keep on doing this as long as no one is hurt or directly threatened in any way or else there will be consequences to these cross burning gatherings.
According to FBI.gov, one tragedy caused by the KKK is when in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963 a dynamite bomb exploded in the back stairwell of the downtown Sixteenth Street Baptist Church causing four African-American girls to pass away and more than 20 to be left injured inside the church and this was just one of the many acts of racial hatred caused by the KKK.
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Fatima • Dec 5, 2023 at 1:03 pm
What I learned from this article is that the KKK is a white supremacist hate group that was founded after the Civil war.
Frank • Dec 5, 2023 at 12:58 pm
Very interesting I am also doing an article of the KKK but of the impacts it had in our society.
jerson • Oct 17, 2023 at 1:05 pm
this is crazy I can’t believe they do this a student named [name removed] says he supports this and would like be apart
Anderson • Aug 29, 2023 at 12:39 pm
Interesting i didn’t really know that much about the kkk
Angel • Mar 20, 2023 at 8:44 am
This so so crazy! I cant believe this happened, a student named Dian actively says the n word and says he supports the KKK!
Joshua • Mar 16, 2023 at 9:01 am
One of my frinds likes ans supports this klan
david • Mar 6, 2023 at 8:56 am
I now know more about who they are and I hope they all get punished
Misael • Jan 6, 2023 at 1:00 pm
I hope that the KKK never returns because it was a massacre.
Matthew o • Jan 6, 2023 at 12:56 pm
I know I’m educated because I read an article about the KKK. Its very interesting on how things were back then.
Kimberly A • Jan 6, 2023 at 12:50 pm
?I think this is a good topic to write about because it gives you a lot of good information. I knew some of the kkk but didn’t know that much.
chelsea • Jan 5, 2023 at 2:24 pm
I didn’t know that Jews, Muslims, Asian Americans, Catholics, Native Americans, and immigrants were primary targets of the KKK.
Gilbert • Jan 5, 2023 at 2:07 pm
I hope the KKK stops for good.
Victor M • Jan 5, 2023 at 2:06 pm
I was surprised at how much hatred they spread towards different races and religions.
Abraham Ramos • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:55 pm
Where is it mostly happening?
Giovanny • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm
From this article I learned the history the kkk.
Antonio • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:52 pm
WOWZERSS!!! This is very interesting. I learned that the KKK targets African-American and Jews.
Alfonso • Jan 5, 2023 at 1:52 pm
I knew what the KKK was but this gave me more information on the KKK>