Taking a Look at the Ku Kux Klan - 594 Words

What if random people dressed up and scared all of your loved ones just because they didn’t like you, you what you believe in? What would you do? How would you feel? This is exactly what started on December 24th 1865 in Pulaski Tennessee. The Ku Klux Klan Impacted Civil Rights by discriminating against blacks, Jews, lesibians, gays, Cathlics and white republicans, for instance, in 1867 and onward, people of the South started an underground campaign of violence against all republican leaders, the Ku Klux Klan attacked all republican leaders, including whites, reasoning for attacking white republican leaders is because they hoped to restore the white supremacy in the South. The Ku Klux Klan mainly targeted schools, churches and institutions that African Americans attended. The Ku Klux Klan was feared by many African americans threw out the south. Many Jews also lived in fear for they might be the next target for the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan started with small racial things, such as setting fire to crosses on African American lawns in the middle of the night. The Klu Klux Klan were known to wear white shades over their faces as not to be m. They would wear all white cloaks at times also. The would wear all white to symbolize that they are for whites only and that they were against anyone who were different or to just plain state that they are white. When they would wear black clothing and everything black, in normally implied that they were the leaders of the