Ku Klux Klan

By ShotCAller
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    Ku Klux Klan

  • KKK began

    The Ku Klux Klan started as a social club in Tennessee

  • Dedicated themselves to perform violent acts

    against the republican leaders and republican voters

  • 10 percent of black legislator that were elected during the 1867-1868

    constitutional conventions were victims of violence during the reconstructive period

  • EVolved into a hooded terrorist organization

    that called the members the invisible empire of the south

  • Local Klan leaders

    carried out their attacks at night

  • Congress passed the Enforcements Acts

    which made it a crime to interfere with registration, voting, officeholding or jury service of the blacks

  • 500 masked men attacked

    the Union county jail and lynched 8 black prisoners in South Carolina

  • Congress passed Ku Klux Klan act

    Allowed government to take action against terrorist organizations such as the KKK

  • Ku Klux Klan act declared unconstitutional

    by the supreme court