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Ku Klux Klan & Lynching

Ku Klux Klan & Lynching. By: James, Parker, Jair, and Lainy. Ku Klux Klan. The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan (also known as the KKK’s) was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866 Most leaders of the KKK’s were former leaders of the Confederate Army

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Ku Klux Klan & Lynching

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  1. Ku Klux Klan & Lynching By: James, Parker, Jair, and Lainy

  2. Ku Klux Klan • The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan (also known as the KKK’s) was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866 • Most leaders of the KKK’s were former leaders of the Confederate Army • Nathan Forrest was the Grand Wizard and was also and outstanding general during the Civil War

  3. KKK’s • The KKK’s wore masks, cardboard hats and draped in white sheets • The Klan broke into their houses in the dead of night, dragged them out of bed, and tortured them in the most inhuman manner • Klansmen tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites, immigrants who they blamed for the election Radical Republicans, were also targets for their hatred

  4. Lynching • Lynching is the practice whereby a mob—usually several dozen or several hundred persons- takes the law into its own hands in order to injure and kill a person accused of some wrong doing • This mainly happened to African Americans, an sometimes Native Americans, Jews, and other immigrants

  5. Lynching • Between 1882 & 1968 - 4,743 people died of lynching • 3,446 of them black women and men

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