KKK

1.     White Power is their chant, they hate

2.     Many groups are like the Klan, but they don’t wear the white sheets.

3.     Dobson, North Carolina, a Klan gathering is in session.

4.     A quote from two of their leaders: "We hate niggers, Jews, faggots, spicks."

5.     A quote from one of their leaders:: "Take a stand, join the Klan."

6.     Invisible Empire, another name for the Klan, people take an oath to join.

7.     Klan members must be - White, Aryan, heterosexual, non-Jewish, non-Black, non-Spanish.

8.     A white man’s government is what they seek.

9.     Separation of races is what they promote.

10.   In the eyes of Klansmen, the most honorable title for a white man is “Klansman.”

11.   A quote from one of their leaders:  “Once you go black, there’s no coming back.”

12.   Why do they join the Klan: for a sense of belonging, kinship, and ritual.

13.   Their bond is built on a precept of exclusion.

14.   The Klan claims to be the champion of white women and Christian virtues.

15.   Burning the Cross, they say, brings people from darkness to light.

16.   A quote from one of their leaders: “Do you accept the light.”

17.   A quote from one of their leaders: “Parasitic, blood-sucking Jews.”

18.   The Klan lighted the cross to the song, “Amazing Gracing.”                       

19.   6 Confederate soldiers met in a law office in Pulaski Tennessee, and the Klan was born in the mid 1860s.

20.   It was born as a fraternal society (brotherhood) .  Public appearances were hidden.

21.   Grand Cyclops,  ghouls are some of the titles.

22.   They rode horses and terrorized in order to frighten slaves who were afraid of “ghosts.”

23.   Klan got involved in going against the desires of the Yankee (Northern) government.

24.   Black Codes (Jim Crow Laws) curtailed the civil rights of blacks after the Civil War.

25.   Nathan Bedford Forrest took control of Klan.  Made a pledge (oath,) and made people swear to follow white supremacy.

26.   Forrest was against the terror.  He ended the Klan, records were burned.  Other members ignored Forrest’s ban.

27.   1870s - laws appeared forbidding the infringing on civil rights.

28.   1876 - The Reconstruction era was ended officially by president Hayes.  The South now took control of its laws again.

29.   Social inequality was now the norm in the south; the Klan had a big influence in putting the blacks back into a state similar to slavery.

30.   The Klan faded in the end of the 1800s and beginning of the 1900s.  It revived 1915 on Stone Mt in Georgia.  William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist clergyman had a “vision” to give rebirth to the Klan.  There was a movie called the “Birth of a Nation”.  It showed the Klan as a good and noble force, a woman is threatened by lust-crazed black men. 

31.   Blacks were depicted as beasts, and the Klan was good.

32.   Woodrow Wilson saw the movie as true.

33.   Imperial Wizard, supreme ruler of the Invisible Empire, was Simmons.  He developed a slogan: "100% American."

34.   The Klan now added Jews and Catholics to its group of hated people.

35.   Bad press 1921 a Klan defector gave a paper Klan atrocities and irregularities.  Simmons dazzled the senators, and the Klan became even more popular.  This was a direct result of the advertisement the papers gave them.

36.   Klaverns (groups) arose in every state.  It cost 10$ to join in the twenties.  They used the protestant church as a recruiting ground, and offered the ministers places of leadership and free admission. 

37.   The Klan cloaks its goals in moral and patriotic purposes. 

38.   At its height, 500 000 women joined the “hooded order.”

39.   Catholics and Jews were picked on by the Klan. 

40.   Warehouse Louisianna was run by the Klan.  They were the law.  Two outspoken activists were killed by the Klan.

41.   Two all white juries having Klan members on them did not find the overwhelming evidence enough to find the accused guilty.

42.   An internal coup (overthrow) toppled Simmons,  Hiram Evans took command. 

43.   David Curtis Stevenson, a charlatan, clever businessman, supported prohibition, and promoted the Klan, 350 000 people joined the Klan, and he got into power.  He picked the candidates who would sign papers saying they would support him. 

44.   Madge Oberholzer was one of his lady friends.  He raped her on a train.  He chewed her like a cannibal, she nearly died.  He got off at Hammond.  He said he was the “law” in Indiana.  He held her captive in her garage overnight.  She was in need of medical attention.  She was nearly dead.  She died 17 days later from her wounds.  Stevenson was charged with her murder.  He was smug “no one will convict me.”   But he was found guilty and sentenced to live in prison.  He had two black boxes containing incriminating many justices in power.  Governor Ed Jackson bribery, mayor of Indianapolis was sent to prison.  The news event exposed the Klan.  Here he treated a woman worse than what he said blacks did.  He was a Klansman, he was supposed to defend women.

45.   Evans led a huge parade down Pennsylvania Ave (Washington D.C.).

46.   4 million in 1925 to 100 000 thousand in 1928.  They Klan did not live up to reforming as it said it would.  

47.  Communists and unionists took the top of their hate list in the 30s.  A Lien against the Klan, 600 000 $, was demanded by the government for back taxes that the Klan owed.

48.   Sam Green, an obstetrician, made the Klan self-governing units so that they could not be killed at once by the law. 

49.   In 1997, a black mayor was elected in Georgia.

50.   “Separate but equal” was not true in the South. 

51.   1954 Brown vs Board of Education decision: segregation was ended in a Supreme court decision.

52.   This gave the Klan a license to grow to try and stop this.

53.   Now there were independent Klans, separate and autonomous (independent).

54.   They were trying to defend the racial caste system.

55.   Boycotts, beatings, murder, intimidation, were the practices of the Klan.

56.   1960’s blacks began to protest.  They became more vocal, united and demanding.

57.   Robert Shelton, created the UKA, the United Klans of America, the longest lasting Klan organization.  Would not give the membership list to the government.

58.   Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)  Came to Birmingham (both whites and blacks) to protest.   Blacks and whites were beaten at the bus station.  Officers made a deal with the Klan not to intervene in the violence. 

59.  Bull Connor said the police didn’t arrive because it was “Mother’s Day”

60.   MLK went to Birmingham Alabama, the most segregated, most violent place.  It was nicknamed “Bomingham” because it had a history of bombings that were never solved.

61.   16^th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham Alabama.  A bomb killed 4 girls: 11-year-old Denise McNair and three 14-year-olds: Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson and Addie Mae Collins.  No arrests were made initially. In 2001 Thomas Blanton and Bobby Frank Cherry were charged.  May 28, 2002  An article about how Thomas Cherry still wants a relationship with his father, Bobby Frank Cherry, who was convicted earlier this month in the church bombing that killed four black girls. Contrary to popular perception, Thomas Cherry never accused his father of having been involved in the plot: He did, however, contradict his father's alibi.

62.   White Knights of Mississippi, was run by Sam Bowers, the imperial wizard.

63.   Freedom summer, COFO Council of Federated Organizations. 

64.   College students came to help voter registration and do social work.

65.  Mickey Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney arrested by Cecil Price on a charge of speeding.  The Klan arrived waiting in secret outside.  The Klan killed them, Deputy Price was with them.  He ordered them into his cruiser and drove them to the woods.  Here we see the police working in and with the Klan.

60.  153 FBI agents came into the area and paid informants to get info from the Klan. 

61.  Mississippi legal system refused to bring an indictment, so the Federal Gov did.  Federal court accused the suspects of refusing the victims of their civil rights.

62.  George Wallace, the governor of Alabama, supported segregation.  Linden Johnson was against the Klan.  He called them a “hooded society of bigots.”  He signed the Civil Rights Act.

63  Emmanual Penn killed by the United Klans of America.  An all white jury found the accused not guilty.

64.  12 000 protesters marched in Selma, Alabama.  Viola Liuzzo as shot and killed by the Kan after the protest.  Charged with violation of the deceased’s ability to enjoy her civil rights.  Gary Row, one of Klansman in the car, was an informant.  First trial could not decide, second found them not guilty.

65.   Bowers was given the maximum for murder (depriving some one of his/her civil rights), 10 years in jail.

66.   Many violent acts by the Klan were never brought to trial.

67.   Baxley became the Attorney General  and charged Bob Chambliss of the Klan.  He was sent to prison where he died.

68.   They seized on affirmative action.  The “new” Klan was David Duke, university educated, well groomed and never wearing a hood or Klan robe.

69.   Greensborough North Carolina.  Five Communist party members, five of them were killed.  The jury claimed the Klan acted in self defense.

70.   Southern Poverty Law Centre director Dees created Klan Watch.

71.   He helped bring down Robert Sheldon’s United Klans of America (UKA).  Benny Hayes Titan, if a Black can kill a white, a white could kill a black.  Tiger Knowles confession helped the trial come to an end where

72.   Knowles testified how the Klan encouraged him to commit acts of violence.  Knowles asked for forgiveness for killing her son, Michael Donald.  The verdict was : 7 million dollars had to be paid to Donald’s mother, she now owned the land of the Klan!  Irony!!

73.   June 6, Henry Hayes, first Klan member to be put to death for killing an African American.

74.  Many Klan members now appear in para-military groups around America.