KKK in the 20's

The KKK was found in 1866 and had a small amount of members that were mostly southerners and ex soldiers from the confederate army. The KKK ( Ku Klux Klan ) is a group of people who believe in extreme white supremacy, anti immigration, and white nationalism. The klan died out in the late 1960's because of reformation. The KKK reformed in the early 1920's and members recruited people by making movies about how much more safe the world would be without blacks, jews, and other racial groups. They also recruited people by revealing the "real truth" of the racial groups immigrating into the U.S. The KKK claimed that they were "truly american", which meant they enforced prohibition, joined politics, and claimed they were making America a safer place.
    The KKK was big in places like Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio, Georgia, Texas, and Indiana. Majority of the members in the KKK were poor/middle class men that were trying to protect there houses and jobs from the huge amount of immigrants coming in from eastern Europe looking for jobs. The klan got so big in Detroit and Chicago they started to spread out to the midwest and the south. The Klan was at its peak during the mid 1920s but many members left soon because, they were not getting of what they signed up for.
    The klan had a big political role in society also, the klan members were both democrat and republican and supported the same goals. The KKK strongly believed in these things in the political world:

-Enforce prohibiton                                                                        

-No immigration into the U.S.
-Catholicism is bad.

- Blacks do not have the rights that whites have.
     They had a tough time being elected in some situations when the opposing candidate was Catholic and had a catholic following.
    The Klan fell apart in the late 1920's when the NAACP went on a public education campaign warning people of what activities the KKK was participating in. The klan also fell apart because many members saw the klan as something totally different as what the recruiters told them when they were joining.

Citations:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/flood-klan/
http://www.assumption.edu/ahc/1920s/Eugenics/Klan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Kla
http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/imm_kkk/kkk%20pages/kkk-page2.htm
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3386

KKK march in Washington DC: 

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