RESEARCH PAPER - 1

Research Paper - 1



Domestic Terrorist Groups And Their Significant Impact On America

Abstract

In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was founded. The Ku Klux Klan was a group of white racist secret societies that preached black inferiority and hatred of foreigners, Catholics, and Jews, and used terrorism and violence to repress minorities. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former slave trader and confederate general, became its first Grand Wizard in 1868. This report takes a beief look at the inception and various terrorist activities of this group. The Klan was a secret organization designed to frighten blacks away from the polls. Dressing in ghostly white costumes that concealed their identified, the Klansmen rode by night through black communities harassing, beating, and often killing black who tried or attempted to exercise their civil rights. Congress passed several laws designed to suppress the Klan and other secret societies. But these organizations helped to force blacks out of public life.

Demographics

The name "Ku Klux" kuklos a withdrawal from the Greek word meaning "stripe" or "circle". In the infamous Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was organized in May or early June 1866 in a law office in Pulaski, six veterans bored Confederation (hereinafter referred to as "immortal six"). In 1865, after the War between the States of the former Confederation of General Nathan Bedford Forrest has created the original Ku Klux Klan along with five other confederate soldiers from uniform, in Pulaski, Tennessee. He called the group "Kuklos clan", a mixture of Greek and Scottish sense of "family." The soldiers were filled with ideas for their new company, now that the civil war ended. This organization was primarily social in nature, but soon turned sinister. Ku Klux Klan, perhaps the most famous of all the hate groups in America. Originally founded in the late Civil War, the Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist groups that used violence and intimidation in order to restore white supremacy in the United States. In various industries in the KKK, all had a common goal: to maintain the superiority of the white race over the Black Americans. White supremacy is an ideology that said that was the white race over all other races. It is for this reason that only WASP in the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, may belong to the Ku Klax Klan. (Cart, 2002) Although membership in the clan grew and fell during his 130-year history, the expanded scope of its hatred. American Supremacist movement of the four main principles:

Hatred of Blacks and other minorities

Hatred of people with disabilities / hereditary conditions

Hatred of the Jews

Hatred of homosexuals

Branches of the group came through the south, while many white southerners, frustrated over federal reconstruction policy, which used the cover of a clan with oaths against the occupying federal troops, or against black people who use the reconstruction of open racial politics .

For the period after the Second World War years, different groups of people organized under the name of the clan, and, in turn, ...