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Ku Klux Klan

Ku Klux Klan. White Hoods: A Faceless Organization against Freedom By: Liam McFadden. The Beginnings. The Ku Klux Klan began as a peaceful social group, created for the sole purpose of amusement. The name “Ku Klux” came from the Greek word “ kuklos ”, meaning circle.

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Ku Klux Klan

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  1. Ku Klux Klan White Hoods: A Faceless Organization against Freedom By: Liam McFadden

  2. The Beginnings • The Ku Klux Klan began as a peaceful social group, created for the sole purpose of amusement. • The name “Ku Klux” came from the Greek word “kuklos”, meaning circle. • The Klan enjoyed playing pranks on African Americans, who believed they were ghosts.

  3. Donned in white robes, the Klan could easily commit pranks, while hiding their identity.

  4. The Klan Takes a Violent Turn • When other Southerners heard of the Klan, they began to join. • More and more Ex-confederates were being accepted into the Ku Klux Klan. • As the Klan population grew, hateful confederates could not resist the temptation to commit horrendous crimes under their costumes. • In the three months before the 1866 election, over 200 people, including U.S. Congressmen were killed.

  5. The Federal Government Takes Action • Local law enforcement was unable, and unwilling, to stop the Klan. • The government passed many laws and acts, completely securing the rights of the Ku Klux Klan victims. • Skillful prosecutors convicted Klansmen. • Although very few Klansmen were persecuted, the early Ku Klux Klan withered away.

  6. The Future without the Klan • Most obviously, thousands of innocent victims would not have been killed if the Klan never existed. • The Ku Klux Klan today would not have existed, also saving innocent lives. • The federal government would have never been forced to defend African American’s rights.

  7. Plessy vs. Ferguson Case 1892 June 7th

  8. The first “sit-in” • Homer Adolph Plessy had only one African American ancestor. • Plessy bought a train ticket and sat in the white section • Plessy told the conductor, JJ Dowling that he is a colored man. • JJ Dowling asked him to go sit in the colored section, but Plessy refused.

  9. Court Case • Plessy’scase was carried all the way to the supreme court • Plessy was charged for “ remaining in a compartment of a coach by which he didn’t not belong to. A compartment coach assigned to passengers of the white race”

  10. Tourgee • Albion W. Tourgee was one of Plessy’s lawyers • Tourgee argued that Plessy was denied his equal protection rights under the Fourteenth and thirteenth amendment. • 8 out of 9 justices were unconvinced by Tourgee’s arguments • The court said neither the 14th and 13th amendment applied to this case

  11. John Marshall Harlan • Change the way the court saw things, he said the supreme court was “color blind” • John Marshal Harlan said that while the law says black and whites are equal, every one knows that colored man aren't equal to whites.

  12. The Decision • The court concluded that Plessy would serve 50 years, for racial segregation.

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