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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 ...
16th Street Baptist Church bombing, terrorist attack in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, on the predominantly African American 16th Street Baptist Church by local members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Resulting in the injury of 14 people and the death of four girls, the attack garnered widespread national outrage.
Secret vigilante and terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) instigated extrajudicial assaults and killings in order to discourage freedmen from voting, working, and getting educated. They also sometimes attacked Northerners, teachers, and agents of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Yet confrontations and violence continued; on September 15 a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killed four young girls. However, sustained pressure from the movement and the presidency (first Kennedy’s, then Lyndon B. Johnson ’s) ultimately led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act ...
Ku Klux Klan and anti-Catholicism Shortly after Black's appointment to the Supreme Court, Ray Sprigle of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette wrote a series of articles, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize , revealing Black's involvement in the Klan [4] : 96 [109] and describing his resignation from the Klan as "the first move of his campaign for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator from ...
Gegründet 1865 während des amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs, hatte der Ku-Klux-Klan nur ein Ziel: Die schwarze Bevölkerung und deren Beschützer zu unterdrücken. Doch Negativ-Schlagzeilen über gewalttätige Übergriffe und Beziehungen zu den Nazis setzten der Organisation schwer zu, Mitglieder blieben aus.
