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Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan. Timeline of Klan History. founded during Reconstruction, collapsed in 1870s revived in 1915 (in part because of the movie Birth of a Nation ) resurgence of popularity in the 1920s, but collapsed again by the 1930s again reappears in the 1950s.

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Ku Klux Klan

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  1. Ku Klux Klan

  2. Timeline of Klan History • founded during Reconstruction, collapsed in 1870s • revived in 1915 (in part because of the movie Birth of a Nation) • resurgence of popularity in the 1920s, but collapsed again by the 1930s • again reappears in the 1950s

  3. Klan Resurgence > Poster for the Film The Birth of a Nation by W.G. Griffith (1915)

  4. Klan Resurgence > NAACP Protest the Screening of The Birth of a Nation, 1947

  5. Klan Resurgence > Key Scenes in The Birth of a Nation • intertitles drawn from A History of the American People (1902) by then-president Woodrow Wilson • black legislators lolling in their chairs in the South Carolina legislature in the early 1870s • white children don white sheets and scare black children nearby, “inspiring” Klan outfits • Klansmen dump the body of the character Gus, an African American, who they had killed for causing a young white woman, Flora, to jump off a cliff

  6. Klan in the 1920s > Washington, D.C. Parade

  7. Klan in the 1920s > Social Movements Supported by the Klan • prohibition • anti-immigrant sentiments • anti-radicalism • religious fundamentalism • morality and family values

  8. Klan in the 1920s > Different Historical Explanations of the Klan • racist and nativist movement • populist movement • reform movement • reactionary movement

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