Ku klux klan 2
Ku klux klan 2Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many
different White
supremacy groups that came into being after
the Civil War. The ill-reputed
Knights of the Klan have been involved in
countless incidents of human
rights violations against blacks and other
minority groups in America.
Especially in the South, during and after
the Reconstruction period, the
Klan played a major part in formulating and
forcefully employing many of the
Jim Crow laws, that delayed black man�s
true freedom f Stetson Kennedy is a
native of Jacksonville, Florida where the
Klan was very active. Kennedy saw
first hand the working of the Klan when a
maid in his house was taken for a
ride by the Klan and badly tortured.
Kennedy developed a hatred for the Ku
Klux Klan and wanted to do all he could to
limit the influence of and put a
stop to its hate mongering. He wrote a book
�Palmetto Country� in which he
blasted the myth that the Klan was formed
to �save the South� from
Scalawags, Carpetbaggers an Also, Kennedy
noted that the few things written
about the KKK were editorials rather than
exposes. He felt the need for not
just words but for legal evidence against
the Klan�s inside machinations.
For that purpose someone would have to go
under a Klan robe and turn the...
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