KKK

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KKK

• The History of.

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The KKK Begins.

• The Klan's first incarnation was in 1866. Founded
  by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main
  purpose was to resist Reconstruction, and it
  focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers"
  and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed
  slaves.

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North Carolina Klansmen in 1870
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Early years

• It quickly adopted violent methods, and was
  involved in a wave of 1,300 murders of Republican
  voters in 1868. A rapid reaction set in, with the
  Klan's leadership disowning it, and Southern
  elites seeing the Klan as an excuse for federal
  troops to continue their activities in the South.
  The organization was in decline from 1868 to
  1870, and was destroyed in the early 1870s by
  President Ulysses S. Grant's vigorous action
  under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as
  the Ku Klux Klan Act).

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Ku Klux Klan Act 1871

• In March 1871, President ulysses s.
  grant requested from Congress legislation that
  would address the problem of KKK violence, which
  had grown steadily since the group's formation in
  1866. Congress responded on April 20, 1871, with
  the passage of the Ku Klux Klan Act, originally
  introduced as a bill "to enforce the provisions
  of the Fourteenth Amendment and for other
  purposes." Section 1 of the act covered
  enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment and was
  later codified, in part, at 42 U.S.C.A.  1983.
  Section 2 of the act, codified at 42 U.S.C.A.
  1985(3), provided civil and criminal penalties
  intended to deal with conspiratorial violence of
  the kind practiced by the Klan. Both sections of
  the act were intended to give federal protection
  to Fourteenth Amendment rights that were
  regularly being violated by private individuals
  as opposed to the state.
• In addition, the Ku Klux Klan Act gave the
  president power to suspend the writ of Habeas
  Corpus in order to fight the KKK. President Grant
  used this power only once, in October 1871, in
  ten South Carolina counties experiencing high
  levels of Klan Terrorism. The act also banned KKK
  and other conspiracy members from serving on
  juries.

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Which Presidents were members of the kkk?

• President Warren G. Harding
• President Woodrow Wilson
• President McKinley
• President Calvin Coolidge
• President Harry S. Truman.URL http//able2know.
  org/topic/99462-1

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Warren G. Harding

• He was actually sworn into the Ku Klux Klan in a
  Klan ceremony conducted inside the White House by
  Imperial Wizard Colonel Simmons.URL http//able
  2know.org/topic/99462-1

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William mckinley

• McKinley was a Union officer, but many Union men
  joined or affiliated with the original First Era
  Ku Klux Klan during the Radical Republican's
  anti-white Reconstruction Era.URL http//able2k
  now.org/topic/99462-1

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Woodrow wilson

• President Wilson would have been a member of the
  Klan under the Command of Imperial Wizard Colonel
  Simmons.URL http//able2know.org/topic/99462-1

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Calvin coolidge

• President Calvin Coolidge was a noted Klansman
  and was well known to be an active member of the
  Ku Klux Klan. He allowed cross lightings on the
  Capitol steps and reviewed the giant Klan parades
  of 1925 and 1926 in Washington D.C.URL http//a
  ble2know.org/topic/99462-1

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Harry truman

• President Harry S. Truman was a minor ordinary
  Klansman from 1920 - 1922. His two year
  membership was not notable and somewhat lacking.
  He eventually had a major falling out with the
  KKK over his desire to appoint RomanCatholics to
  key political positions something which all of
  the KKK opposed at the time. Some Klans now not
  only accept Roman Catholics but actively recruit
  them. The true Ku Klux Klan is however
  traditionally and rightfully opposed to Roman
  Catholicism and Papists influence over America.
  President Harry S. Truman was currying favor with
  Roman Catholic voters and was more interested in
  his political career than the Klan or the good of
  America. He severed all ties with the KKK and
  openly repudiated them. They didn't call the
  arrogant upstart "give them Hell Harry", for
  nothing. His family has tired to deny his KKK
  membership ever since, but has failed miserably
  since it is a well established fact of documented
  history.URL http//able2know.org/topic/99462-1