Ku Klux Klan

This post would be about the history of the Ku Klux Klan in America. The Ku Klux Klan engaged in many terrorist activities and members of this Klan also wore white costumes, consisting of robes, masks and conical hats, which is meant to be terrifying. The history of Ku Klux Klan is separated into 3 different Klans, the first started in 1860s and died by the early 1870s. The second Klan started in 1920s while the third started after World War 2. As such, this post would be focusing more on the timeframe of Mississippi burning, which would be the third Klan.


The third Klan which appeared was strongly against the Civil Right Movement as well as the idea of desegregation. It adopted the anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, anti-Communist and anti-Immigrant perception. Some common acts the KKK carry out would be to burn crosses as a form of warning that the KKK was there. This Ku Klux Klan was also closely allied with the police forces and as such, was able to lay down attacks at appropriate times and places, carrying out several bombing and assassination in the 1960s. To curb the issue of the KKK, the FBI paid informants in the Klan in places like Birmingham as they seemed more concerned about Communist links to civil rights activists than about controlling Klan excesses against the citizens.