The goals is to protect the right and further the intrest of white american and by violence and intimidation. The KKK is record of using terrorism, violence and lynching to murder and oppose affrican american , jewish and other minorities and to intimate and oppose roman catholics and labor union.The several version was in civil right movement and desegregation.
Million of black left the south to north because they found some of plitical powerfull klan chapter in indaina ,also the kkk raise in indiana political and society after ww1.In 1924,it has an election of edward jackson for governer.After ww2 the folklorist and stetson kennedy infiltraited the klan and give some information to media and law.He also gave acode word to the writer of superman radio program resulting in episodes in which superman took on the kkk.
Director D.W Griffith the birth of nation glorified the original klan. The film was made by Thomas Dixon and it based on book and play .so, the purpose was to revolutionize nothern sentiment by a presentation of history that would transform every man in my audience in to agood democrat!The film was released mytholigizing and glorifying the first klan.
Thanks. The story about the code word is an interesting one. I first read about it in the popular book "Freakonomics", when the authors showed how publicizing it hurt the reputation of the KKK.
ReplyDeleteThe photograph is a powerful one.