KKK
Published on Nov 25, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
GROUP ORGIN
- Six well-educated Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee created the original Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War. The name was formed by combining the Greek kyklos (κύκλος, circle) with clan.The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan". The Ku Klux Klan was one of a number of secret, oath-bound organizations using violence, which included the Southern Cross in New Orleans (1865) and the Knights of the White Camelia (1867) in Louisiana.
- 1st Klan 1865–1870s 2nd Klan 1915–1944 3rd Klan 1946–present
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PURPOSE OF GROUP
- To regain power for the whites and withhold it from the blacks
- The prove that whites are superior
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CURRENT PURPOSE OF THE GROUP
- To kill blacks & keep women down
FAMOUS MEMBERS
- Harry Truman Robert Byrd Edward Douglass White Hugo Black Theodore G. Bilbo Rice W. Means Bibb Graves Edward L. Jackson Clifford Walker George Gordon John Clinton Porter Warren G. Harding David Duke
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KKK SYMBOLS/RITUALS
- Burning the cross
- Killing black peoples
- Must burn something down
DID YOU KNOW...?
- In 1980, three KKK members shot four elderly black women (Viola Ellison, Lela Evans, Opal Jackson and Katherine Johnson) in Chattanooga, Tennessee, following a KKK initiation rally. A fifth woman, Fannie Crumsey, was injured by flying glass in the incident. Attempted murder charges were filed against the three KKK members, two of whom—Bill Church and Larry Payne—were acquitted by an all-white jury, and the other of whom—Marshall Thrash—was sentenced by the same jury to nine months on lesser charges. He was released after three months. In 1982, a jury awarded the five women $535,000 in a civil rights trial.
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