Race Relations and the Ku Klux Klan

  1. Violence from racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices
    1. anti-Catholic riots (northeast)
    2. Anti-Chinese violence (west)
    3. immigrants (urban areas)
    4. The Lynch Mob
  2. Rise of the Ku Klux Klan
    1. R.J. Brunson Historic Pulaski (Tennessee)
    2. Kukloi, Greek word kuklos meaning band or circle
    3. Vigilante groups
  3. Griffith, "The Birth of a Nation" (1915)
  4. Decline of KKK
    1. goals
      1. suppress Black voting
      2. reestablish white supremacy
      3. topple reconstruction governments
    2. Grand Wizard disbands KKK (March 1869)
    3. 1915 reorganizes and again begins terrorism