Friday, May 30, 2014


"KKK"


In the United States,in the 50's the segregation was the accepted way of life in the South. However, the"separate but equal" was only a half truth. Blacks enjoyed little freedom in those times of little racial stability. When they climbed on a bus, they had to be placed at the end of the same. They living surrounded by fear and it was a horrible way of life.
Racial violence was amazing, and most of these acts were signed "KKK" .
The Ku Klux Klan was born in the United States in 1866, is an organization which
proclaims the superiority of the white race frequently through acts of violence.  
The Ku Klux Klan was conceived as a social club where young people could find fun and entertainment. The members were nocturnal excursions by the people of Pulaski, dressed up with sheets and masks, pretending to be ghosts that frightened (or amused themselves) to the population. But little by little the KKK tightened up its activities, and devoted himself to oppress the groups considered inferior, among them black.

In the Ku Klux Klan racist thinking there was a very advanced,hated anyone who was not white.
They were claiming the rights of whites without giving them any value to the blacks and letting them see the people that your idea was true and that he had to support them. For them the blacks had no value in fact committed large attacks against them.
But its history is more than a sum of acts of terror. I found a documentary that examines the history of the Ku Klux Klan in relation to the history of the United States shows its birth directly caused by the release of the slaves after the Civil War, but also when had its time of maximum splendour in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century It also shows when your activity resurfaced later in the moments in which the black population was progressing in their civil rights.

The documentary's name is Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History.


                           

3 comments:

  1. I think that this is a very important topic, because not everyone know something about the "KKK", they may just know the name and thats all... In my personal case, I had heard of the ku klux klan but I didn't know much more than that.
    Very important topic for those who don't know about the Ku Klux Klan.

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  2. the KKK really scare me out, their outfiths are very impressive, because they seem like ghosts o.O , but the things that really catch my attention is the "mission" that they do, they are in favor of segregation to black peoples, that is horrible for my, cause is not two or four people in this group, is a hundred of them doing this, too sad.
    but was a reallyyyy good and interesting post :D

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  3. I think the KKK was very dangerous, they could do a lot of things, one of them was hitting black people sometimes even to death, and as we saw in class most of white people that killed or hurt black people weren't punished. You could see murderers walking around proud of what they did because of the situation by then.
    Worst part, they had their faces covered, so it was even harder to know who did what.

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