Throughout the years, there were repeated acts of hate and violence towards the minority groups in America. The crimes and dislike for these different minority groups usually raged from people of the white race. As the whites began to think that the blacks, Jews, and other races that they felt were inferior were beginning to rise up in America's society, the whites formed a group known as the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was a group formed exclusively due to the feeling of power and superiority the whites felt they should have over all the other races.

The history of the Ku Klux Klan consisted of four different periods of time when the Klan had many members and a high amount of Klan activity. The four time periods were during the 1860's-1870's, 1915-1944, the late 1940's - the early 1970's, and since the 1970's. Throughout all these time periods, the members of the Klan showed their disgust in all other races other than their own, the white race, by performing many terrorist acts, committing many crimes, and trying to scare the minorities. The Ku Klux Klan members felt that the minority groups, such as the blacks and Jews, were beginning to rise in power in America, and the Klan me

The Ku Klux Klan had many symbols that showed their love for their white race and the feeling of superiority that they felt they had over the other minorities. They had two symbols that were commonly seen among their Klan. The "Blood Drop" symbol was meant to symbolize the blood of Jesus Christ, which they believed "was shed for the White Aryan Race."4 The other symbol the Klan was known to use was the "crosswheel." It was said that the crosswheel represented the history of the white race. The Klan members believed that nothing could describe the united white race better than the crosswheel symbol. Both of these two symbols show how strongly the Klan members felt about their race, and how important it was to them that all the white Christian people remained unified.

In 1915, the second Ku Klux Klan was formed in Atlanta, Georgia. It was brought together by a man named William Simmons, and he made the Klan into a Protestant group. "The Klan directed its activities against groups it considered un-American, including blacks, immigrants, Jews, and particularly Roman Catholics." The members of the Klan would sometimes whip, torture, and beat the un-Americans who did things they did not approve of. They would often burn down the houses of many black families too. The KKK was huge in the 1920's with over two million members in both the South and North. "1924 is said to be the peak of the Klan's power. The Klan had so much political power that when a resolution denouncing the Klan came up at the Democratic National Convention in 1924, it sparked a bitter debate, and was defeated." But in the 1930's, the KKK began to decrease in members again because of public criticism of their violent methods against the minorities and fighting inside of the Klan. This Ku Klux Klan dissapeared in 1944.

For over a century, many white citizens in America have had a feeling of superiority and power over the minorities. But while some of these individuals chose to keep their feelings to themselves, others decided to act upon their opinions. The people that chose to act against the minorities are the people who would decide to join the Ku Klux Klan. Inside of the Klan, the white person was able to try and get rid of any power and benefits the bl

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