KKK

After a year membership of the klan had fallen from 5 million to just 300,000 members

After the the David Stephenson incident what happened?

5-6 million

How many members did the KKK have in the 1920's ?

100,003

How many members did the KKK have when it was first founded?

They took the law in their hands by doing terrible things to black people (lynching,crastrating,stripping victim in public, covering them in tar and feathers,whipping)

What did the KKK do?

Numbers rapidly increased because of immigrants and anti- Catholicism

What happened to the KKK when immigration increased?

WASPS white Anglo Saxon Protestants

What were the KKK called?

Imperial wizards

What were the KKK known as?

This organzas ion started in the Deep South at the end of American civil war (1861-1865)

When and where did KKK start?

Founded by people who believed in white supremacy

Who founded the KKK?

An organasion that were a racist group. Their main aim was to maintain white supremacy over the blacks and immigrants and 'keep them in their place'

Who were the KKK?

Khan leader, named David Stephenson was convicted of the brutal kidnapping,rape and murder of adage oberholtzer a 28 year old teacher on a Chicago train

Why did the decline of KKK happen?

They would be murdered by white racist groups. When the klan had 100,000 members it became to influence the south and had begun to extend its influence to the northern and western states. It's campaigns of hate and violence intensified and beatings,lynchings and bra dings took place. In 1919 70 black men were lynched and 10 of them were soldiers. Blacks were intimidated and terrified by these frightening levels of violence which these groups did and were afraid to challenge white racism. In conclusion black people were affected dramatically.

Why were black people affected by the KKK?

They had little influence in big cities-couldn't dramatically change the country Their movement was in rural and small towns-terrorism and crimes took place on a local level

Why were the KKK not significant?

They had a lot of members - they were extremely powerful Involved in choosing governments-destroyed the campaign of Al Smith a catholic New Yorker

Why were the KKK significant?