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By Supreme Wizard Caelan And Empire Isaac

BURNING KROSSES WITH THE KKK. By Supreme Wizard Caelan And Empire Isaac. THE KKK WANTS YOU!!. This is the brochure for KKK camp. All the information you need to join and understand the KKK idealisms are in here.

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  1. BURNING KROSSES WITH THE KKK By Supreme Wizard Caelan And Empire Isaac

  2. THE KKK WANTS YOU!! • This is the brochure for KKK camp. All the information you need to join and understand the KKK idealisms are in here. • This is a white supremacy organization founded in 1865 Pulaski, Tennessee who advocate extremist ideals. • Our members:1st Klan 550,000. 2nd Klan 3,000,000–6,000,000(peaked in 1920–1925 period). 3rd Klan 5,000–6,000 • This Presentation talks about the SECOND KKK.

  3. Background: WHO IS THE KKK? • KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan. • The KKK is a white supremacy organization founded in 1915 • Beliefs: • 100% American Caucasian majority. • Americans should be the guardians of society’s behavior/morals • Pledge of secrecy to keep the symbols of the KKK secret and to not reveal it to the outside world.

  4. HISTORY: • Similarities and Enemies • Similar to the German and Italian movements of the 1920’s because of the idealism of racial superiority, pride for race, and extreme nationalism • Differentfrom the KKK formed after the Civil war because • 1920 Increase in enemy circle to include Jews, Japanese and European immigrants, French Canadians.

  5. 2. ORIGINAL LOCATION: • Atlanta, Georgia is the founding ground for the SECOND KKK. • Founded this time by William J. Simmons • In the 1920’s within the states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, the KKK included 80% or the largest membership in the U.S.

  6. 3. INFLUENCE ON CULTURE • The KKK influenced culture through their idea of “Pure Americanism” • This became a mainstream idea in the 1920’s and still reverberates through some of our more conservative cultures.

  7. 4. WHY THE KKK DIMINISHED IN THE MID TO LATE 1920’S? • Numbers diminished in the mid late 1920’sdue to a problem with a leader of the KKK from Illinois known as David Stephenson. • Crime: murder of a woman. • Due to this event the KKK’s beliefs to change (So during KKK camp lets try not to follow this example). WANTED

  8. 5. Rituals • Tarring and Feathering (before bedtime) • Flogging until morale improves (consequences and seminars) • Lynching of enemies (camp activities) • Burning crosses (during sing along) • Uniforms include hooded ghost outfits (avoid ghost busters during wearing of uniform)

  9. 6. SOCIAL, MORAL, POLITICAL OR ECONOMIC CHANGE? • The members saw the Klan as a political movement. • They change the growing cultural and political dominance of what they saw as immoral, or multiracial • This was the cultural and political change that white Americans have had to face throughout the twentieth century.

  10. Video Clip • YouTube - KKK: Then and Now

  11. Works Cited • http://www1.assumption.edu/users/McClymer/his261/KlanNotes.html • http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/1920s/eugenics/klan.html • http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/klan.htm • American Odyssey • Youtube.com

  12. FIN

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