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Crosses in the Night

Crosses in the Night. Luis Ramirez Tony Singh. Let's meet the KKK!. American people   Native-born Americans. Enemies: Black people Catholic people Immigrant people Communist people Believed in the superiority of pure Americans. Terrorist organization.

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Crosses in the Night

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  1. Crosses in the Night Luis RamirezTony Singh

  2. Let's meet the KKK! • American people   • Native-born Americans. • Enemies: • Black people • Catholic people • Immigrant people • Communist people • Believed in the superiority of pure Americans. • Terrorist organization. • Had similarities with German and Italian movements: • Stressed nationalism and RACIAL PURITY. • Attacked Alien minority groups. • Return to the past.

  3. Changed in the 1920's

  4. Where they were? • More than the 80% were in the • North Central • Southwest • South • Midwest • The KKK became stronger for what was happening in America • Wanted Nativism and Normalcy after War World I • People were scared for the Communism (The Red Scare) • People scared of the Immigrants and their Ideas as Anarchy • Was stronger in the cities of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio

  5. Their Rituals •  Burn Crosses (A symbol of this 2nd Klan of 1920) • Lynching of enemies • Costumes mostly whites sheets and white hoods • Initiations rituals

  6. KKK you are going down! • David Stephenson went to jail. • 2nd degree murder of a Woman. • He had kidnapped and brutally abused. • Klan members deserted the organization in large numbers. • Manny people flowed him because they believed in his moral.

  7. KKK influenced America • KKK were the “guardians” of America. • Many people believed it. • Worse treatment to immigrants. • Many Americans joined. • Scared for Immigrants and Black people for the competition of jobs. • Scared for the ideas around the world as Communism and Anarchy.

  8. KKK changed America • The KKK, “protector in the society.” • Some people joined the KKK. • They flogged people who weren’t “pure”. Even though they believed; they had a good moral. • The KKK controlled some states politically.

  9. Work Cited • “The Ku Klux Klan In Washington State, 1920s.” depts.washington.edu. Web. 06 December 2011 • “Ku Klux Klan” library.thinkquest.org. Web. 06 December 2011 • “David Curtiss Stephenson.” www.findagrave.com. Web. 06 December 2011

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