The KKK: reign of terror, violence, intimidation
Links
FBI: Reported hate crimes on the rise in Delaware
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/29/hate-incidents-rise-delaware/1806102002/
KKK report; background, what’s ahead, 2021 KKK hate groups
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan
https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/29/hate-incidents-rise-delaware/1806102002/
KKK report; background, what’s ahead, 2021 KKK hate groups
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/ku-klux-klan
Primary Sources
A Ku Klux Klan threat, 1868
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/ku-klux-klan-threat-1868
Louisiana White League Platform 1874
https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/louisiana-white-league-platform-1874
Dec. 24, 1865: Ku Klux Klan Founded
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ku-klux-klan-founded/
Feb. 26, 1870: Wyatt Outlaw Murdered
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wyatt-outlaw-murdered/
Jan. 23, 1957: Klan Forces Man to Jump from Bridge
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/klan-forces-man-jump/
Sept. 1, 1965: Klan Raid Family Home in Hayneville, Alabama
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kkk-raid-mcdonald-home
the enforcement acts (1871)
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ku-klux-klan-act-of-1871/
Wright, K. (2019, December 11). The Enforcement Act of 1870 (1870-1871). BlackPast.org.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/the-enforcement-act-of-1870-1870-1871/
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/spotlight-primary-source/ku-klux-klan-threat-1868
Louisiana White League Platform 1874
https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/louisiana-white-league-platform-1874
Dec. 24, 1865: Ku Klux Klan Founded
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ku-klux-klan-founded/
Feb. 26, 1870: Wyatt Outlaw Murdered
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/wyatt-outlaw-murdered/
Jan. 23, 1957: Klan Forces Man to Jump from Bridge
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/klan-forces-man-jump/
Sept. 1, 1965: Klan Raid Family Home in Hayneville, Alabama
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/kkk-raid-mcdonald-home
the enforcement acts (1871)
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ku-klux-klan-act-of-1871/
Wright, K. (2019, December 11). The Enforcement Act of 1870 (1870-1871). BlackPast.org.
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/the-enforcement-act-of-1870-1870-1871/
Primary Sources: The 1920s: Ku Klux Klan
https://cnu.libguides.com/1920s/kukluxklan
This resource describes racism and discrimination against Latinos in Boulder County in the early twentieth century, especially the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
https://teachbocolatinohistory.colorado.edu/primary-source-sets/racism-and-the-ku-klux-klan-1910-1940/
Map of Ku Klux Klan Activity: 1922-1925
https://libraryguides.salisbury.edu/c.php?g=1056210&p=8225340
The Rocky Mountain American: The KKK's Colorado Newspaper
https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/rocky-mountain-american-ku-klux-klans-colorado-newspaper
Statistics: Immigration in America, Ku Klux Klan membership: 1840-1940
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/statistics-immigration-america-ku-klux-klan-membership-1840-1940
Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/second-ku-klux-klan-and-the-birth-of-a-nation
Red Record of Lynching Map
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/149268727
https://cnu.libguides.com/1920s/kukluxklan
This resource describes racism and discrimination against Latinos in Boulder County in the early twentieth century, especially the activities of the Ku Klux Klan.
https://teachbocolatinohistory.colorado.edu/primary-source-sets/racism-and-the-ku-klux-klan-1910-1940/
Map of Ku Klux Klan Activity: 1922-1925
https://libraryguides.salisbury.edu/c.php?g=1056210&p=8225340
The Rocky Mountain American: The KKK's Colorado Newspaper
https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/rocky-mountain-american-ku-klux-klans-colorado-newspaper
Statistics: Immigration in America, Ku Klux Klan membership: 1840-1940
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/teaching-resource/statistics-immigration-america-ku-klux-klan-membership-1840-1940
Second Ku Klux Klan and The Birth of a Nation
https://dp.la/primary-source-sets/second-ku-klux-klan-and-the-birth-of-a-nation
Red Record of Lynching Map
https://catalog.archives.gov/id/149268727
Classroom Resources
Resurgence of hate
The purpose of this activity is to take a look at one of the most famous hate groups, try to understand why its members believe the way they do and learn what can be done to stop hate groups from returning to their historic levels of power and influence.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/the-resurgence-of-hate
This flyer advertises a Ku Klux Klan meeting held 13 days before the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization active during the Civil Rights movement, was known to harass beat, and even murder African Americans to prevent their participation in the political process. With roots reaching back to the Reconstruction Era, Klan members feared growing black political strength in southern states.
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.klanfly/ku-klux-klan-flyers/
The KKK during Reconstruction vs. the KKK in the 1920s
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/lessons/the-kkk-during-reconstruction-vs-the-kkk-in-the-1920s
Assessment: Students must explain how an 1872 editorial describing the organization of the Ku Klux Klan and a testimony given before Congress describing Klan intimidation both support the conclusion that Americans were concerned about the Klan in the 1870s.
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-assessments/kkk-1870s
Historian Eric Foner writes that the Ku Klux Klan drew support from many more people than those who directly committed violent or threatening acts against freedpeople and white supporters of Reconstruction. This is Handout 10.4 (p. 179) from The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy.
https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/collaborators-and-bystanders
The purpose of this activity is to take a look at one of the most famous hate groups, try to understand why its members believe the way they do and learn what can be done to stop hate groups from returning to their historic levels of power and influence.
https://www.learningforjustice.org/classroom-resources/lessons/the-resurgence-of-hate
This flyer advertises a Ku Klux Klan meeting held 13 days before the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization active during the Civil Rights movement, was known to harass beat, and even murder African Americans to prevent their participation in the political process. With roots reaching back to the Reconstruction Era, Klan members feared growing black political strength in southern states.
https://ny.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/iml04.soc.ush.civil.klanfly/ku-klux-klan-flyers/
The KKK during Reconstruction vs. the KKK in the 1920s
https://billofrightsinstitute.org/lessons/the-kkk-during-reconstruction-vs-the-kkk-in-the-1920s
Assessment: Students must explain how an 1872 editorial describing the organization of the Ku Klux Klan and a testimony given before Congress describing Klan intimidation both support the conclusion that Americans were concerned about the Klan in the 1870s.
https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-assessments/kkk-1870s
Historian Eric Foner writes that the Ku Klux Klan drew support from many more people than those who directly committed violent or threatening acts against freedpeople and white supporters of Reconstruction. This is Handout 10.4 (p. 179) from The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy.
https://www.facinghistory.org/reconstruction-era/collaborators-and-bystanders