The Civil War which lasted four long years and left the south honor-less and depressed, lead to the freeing of the slaves shortly after. Poor whites and others against freed blacks feared and rejected this change and wouldn't tolerate it. The Ku Klux Klan, a.k.a. the KKK, formed by whites ag...

Ku Klux Klan A secret terrorist organization that began in the southern states during the reconstruction period following the Civil War and was reactivated on a larger basis in the 20th century. The original Klan was brought together in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1865, by six X-Confederate...

The KKK is a totally different group than it used to be. The men who make up the new KKK are very different, and the group is not as feared. The new KKK can't even compete with the old KKK. The old KKK was a smaller more secret society, they had an intense hatred for black and Jews. Six conf...

"The film is many things: repulsive, naive, biased, simplistic, historically inaccurate and astonishing in its view of history and racist glorification of the KKK. Yet it tremendously significant and powerful work of art with extraordinary effect and brilliantly-filmed sequences" (Dirks). The movie ...

The Birth of a Nation: Does the Portrayal of the Ku Klux Klan In this controversial 1915 film compare to documented history of the organization? D.W. Griffith was raised in South Carolina by his father who was an ex-confederate soldier. Griffith was raised to believe that father's views on ...

Ku Klux Klan is the name mainly given to two distinct secret societies that played a part in American history, although other less important groups have also used the name. The first Ku Klux Klan was an organisation that thrived in the South during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War...