The Klu Klux Klan

The Klu Klux Klan also known as the KKK is infamous for it's racism and cruel treatment towards African Americans and it's extreme measures taken to make sure none of them succeeded. The KKK dates all the way back to 1865 after the civil war, it was founded on December 24 by six well educated Confederate veterans from Tennessee with the goal of showing white supremacy. The name Klu Klux Klan is a longer form of the name Kluklux klan, which is based off the Greek word kyklos (with clan at the end) the word kyklos means circle so the name Klu Klux Klan means circle clan which many historians believe they choose these words to say that its an inner circle and are uninviting or unwelcoming. Throughout their time the KKK has caused a lot of suffering in the African American community by lynching, burning, stoning, and torturing them and by also burning their schools, cars, and houses. Although the law or government did not try to stop the KKK's rain of terror on the African Americans they eventually faded away by 1946 to nothing major, just a group of people against African Americans.    

The KKK