I am here to interest and give you the opportunity of a lifetime . White Power! Are you ready to take on the brotherhood? A brotherhood that is the most famous of them all The Ku Klux Klan. We will destroy and kill! You WILL swear to secrecy and adopt our traditions. No one can stop us. Now, isn't it bizarre how someone can actually say and be involved in something this cruel? Well, ladies and gentlemen it's quite true. Picture yourself in the 1920's, if you had anything against this Klan you were in for some trouble. And if you you were some of the things I"m going to talk about, you"d also be in some trouble. .
The Ku Klux Klan was founded and organized in Pulaski Tenn on December 24, 1865 by 6 young confederate army veterans. The world kuklos means circle and the word clan means family. So it's the circle family. The Klan dresses in white robes and white masks. The burning cross has been adopted as their symbol. They have adopted this as their symbol because the Klan burns crosses near homes of blacks to frighten them. Then they usually torture or kill them in some gruesome way. Some torture methods are arson, beating, mutilation, murder, and lynching.
The Ku Klux Klan doesn't only preach anti-black but are against many others. They preach anti-Catholic, anti-Jewish, anti-immigrant, liberals, non-Protestant, anti-socialist, and anti-labor unions. The Ku Klux Klan often took law into their own hands. Mobs of white robed, white hooded Klansmen punished "immorality" and terrorized "un-American" elements. The Klan prevented many from voting, holding office, and exercising their political rights. .
In the beginning of the 1920's the Klan has about 3 million adherents and exercised great political power in many southern, western, and Midwestern states. In the period of economic dislocation and political and social unrest that follows world war 1, the Klan expanded rapidly into urban areas and become active in many states such as colo, oregon, kansas, oklahoma, texas, alabama, georgia, illinois, indiana, ohio, pennyslvania, and new jersey.
