Klu Klux Klan
Discuss to what extent did the Ku Klux Klan contributed to racial disharmony in American society during the early 1900s.While the Ku Klux Klan contributed to racial disharmony in America during the early 1900s, it was more an expression of the most extreme elements of hatred that already existed in the society. Racial disharmony was evident in American society since the introduction of Black slaves, but it intensified after the American Civil War because of the poor economic conditions that followed and continuing white opposition to equal rights for blacks. The Ku Klux Klan were able to flourish in this atmosphere of discontent, setting horrifying examples for people to follow and acting as a role model for others in the new century, but they didn’t succeed in stopping American society from advancing. Racial disharmony was first evident in American society after Black Africans were sent as slaves to work on southern plantations – by 1850, nearly four million Black slaves were working on plantations. In 1861 war broke out between the northern and southern states because those in the North believed the slaves should be freed. The North won the war and the slaves were freed, but racial tensions flared because most of the whit
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