The Ku Klux Klan Spreads Terror in the South
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Terrorism
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Organizations, Agencies, Institutions, Human Rights, Violence
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, African American History
- Geographical Location: North Carolina, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Indiana, Georgia, Oklahoma, Louisiana
- Date: The early 1920’s
Article abstract: Klan violence against both blacks and whites in the name of racial and moral purity reached a high between 1921 and 1924.
Summary of Event
On Thanksgiving night in 1915, William Joseph Simmons led a group of twelve friends up to Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, and before a burning cross swore them in as charter members of a secret fraternal organization dedicated to the ideals of racial purity and traditional morality. “The Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.” was chartered as a new fraternal order by the...
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