The KKK

• The KKK


  Armed white racist group established in Tennessee-1866 after the South's defeat in the Civil War but soon squashed by the federal government.The Klan Received in 1915- gaining millions of members across the USA especially in the North and Midwest to which Black-Americans had gravitated during the early 20th century.
• The KKK

  The Brown ruling revitalised the Klan but the Montgomery Bus Boycott suggested it had lost some of its impact , when Montgomery buses were desegregated, the Klan sent 40 carloads of robed, hooded members through Montgomery's black community.
• KKK Activities

  • Bombing King's house-1956
  • Bombing his motel room during the Birmingham Campaign in 1963
  • Attacks on Freedom Riders at Birmingham-1963
  • Bombing at Birmingham Church-1963
  • Cross-burnings, church-burnings, beatings, shootings and murders in Mississippi in the Winter of 1963-64
  • Shooting and killing Viola Liuzzo, a Northern white who participated in the Selma Campaign
• Murders of three Civil Rights workers- Black Mississippian James Chaney, White Congress of Racial Equality(CORE) member Michael Schwerener and White student Andrew Goodman- caused national sensation and led President Lyndon Johnson to order the FBI to go after the Klan


  1964