ku klux klan
Title: ku klux klan
Category: History | Words: 612 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
ku klux klan
The Ku Klux Klan originated in 1865 from the white Southern anger over the Civil War defeat and the Reconstruction that followed. Northerners saw it as a way that the Klan could win through terrorism what they lost on the battlefield. Soon this Klan became the hooded legion whose sacred task was to fulfill the Southern dream. This dream was the old South would live again. People started to believe in this Klan and their ideals, …
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showed last 75 words of 612 total…visits to black homes and threaten them. It wasn’t long after, when these threats turned into violence against the blacks that insisted on exercising their new rights and freedom. Before the original members realized what had happened, the Ku Klux Klan may have turned into something they may not have originally intended. Whether or not they wanted this it was too late to turn it around because they became too powerful, too quick.
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