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The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is an American white supremacist terrorist hate group founded in 1865. It became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s...
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Der Klan bestand von 1865 bis 1871 und von 1915 bis 1944 als einheitliche Organisation. Seit 1950 existieren unter diesem Namen wieder mehrere voneinander unabhängige Gruppen. Ziel des Klans war nach der Gründung am 24. Dezember 1865 vor allem die Unterdrückung der Schwarzen.
Ku Klux Klan, either of two distinct U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. One group was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee, immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The other group began in 1915 and has continued to the present.
The Ku Klux Klan (/ ˌ k uː k l ʌ k s ˈ k l æ n, ˌ k j uː-/), commonly shortened to the KKK or the Klan, is the name of several historical and current American white supremacist, far-right terrorist organizations and hate groups. According to historian Fergus Bordewich, the Klan was "the first organized terror movement in American history."
Background Info. Vocabulary. Late in 1865, just after the United States Civil War ended, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded. The Klan, a secret organization that used terror tactics to target newly freed African Americans, attracted defeated Confederates who resented the changes of Reconstruction.
The Ku Klux Klan was founded immediately after the Civil War and lasted until the 1870s. The second iteration of the group began in 1915 and has continued to the present. Both groups were U.S. hate organizations that employed terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda.
History. The Roots of America’s First Homegrown Terrorist Movement. 8 minute read. 1866: A wood engraving depicting two members of the Ku Klux Klan. The white sheet and hood were supposed to...
