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Before the KKK
Before the KKK. Acts to end slavery were being made. The blacks were being enslaved many were brutaly murderd.
slave trade was still going on heavily. -
The start after the end.
The Ku Klux Klan was originally organized in the winter of 1865-66 in Tennessee as a social club by six Confederate veterans. In the beginning, the Klan was a secret fraternity club rather than a terrorist organization.The costume adopted by its members was a mask and white robe and high pointed hat.(The start after the end) -
The formationof the Ku Klux Klan
The formationof the Ku Klux Klan
1 Jan 1865 The Ku Klux Klan is a very racist group that targeted Blacks and Republicans. They started extremely violent riots and killed many black people. This was important because it greatly effected the Black's lives and made it much more difficult to live with. They held strong to their belief that Black's belonged and deserved to be slaves. -
growth
According to the founders of the Klan (KKK), It had no malicious intent in the beginning. The Klan grew quickly and became a terrorist organization. Ku Klux Klan is still growing very fast today
kkk was involved with the fight against blacks. the major change was that blacks got their rights even tho the kkk was fighting against it. The KKK was very much involved in this fight. The blacks were for the change because they wanted their rights. in the end the blacks earned freedom -
reconstruction
Reconstruction Era Begins
6 Dec 1865 The Reconstruction Era begins, as progress is made to improve the lives of African Americans. During this time period, new laws including the 13th, 14th, and 15th admendments are passed, stopping slavery, allowing blacks to become citizens, and giving them the right the vote. -
progress
Jim Crow laws start
1 Jan 1876 The first Jim Crow laws start. The Jim Crow laws were local and national laws mostly in the South against black people with the saying "separate but equal". -
black RIOT
Wilmington Riot
1 Jan 1898 Black work men dominated the restaurant and barbershop trade and owned tailor shops and drug stores and some blacks even had jobs and ketp them. The Wilmington Race Riot was the result of the 1898 white supremacy campaign instituted by the Democratic Party. Democrats fueled racial hatred and promised violence to win the election. Although Election Day was peaceful as Democrats regained control of the General Assembly and New Hanover County government, violence broke -
KKK
Tulsa Roit
1 Jan 1921 Tulsa Roit was an area that have apart black and whit neighborhood and the KKK came cause of a false report of a black men raping a white weman. another riot caused by the kkk. -
outcome
after all that happend the KKK slowed down and started to lose members. resulting in blacks with equal rights.The KKK were the ones who were resisting because they beleive blacks belong as slaves. the blacks wanted the change. so they could have equal freedom as the whites