This article will focus on domestic terrorism organization in the America. The two groups are Ku Klux Klan and the Crips gang. Ku Klux Klan is known for their extremist views and popular belief system while Crips gang is classified under criminal terrorism (Fitzgerald, 2013). Domestic terrorism in United States of America is an emerging issue in the nation’s security. This form of fifth wave terrorism has been ruthless due to their unconventional approach against target American residents (Kerodal, Freilich & Chermak, 2015).
Klux Klan is a white supremacist which is right wing extremist that has existed since 1868; it was founded by southern confederate member involved in the American civil war to frustrate effort of the government to unite
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KKK had a more elaborately planned financial system; given it large representations at one time it had over 2 million members. Thus it generated most of its finances from membership recruitment fee, merchandise sales and pledge schemes (Sullaway, 2016). It also enjoyed better structural organized with local and national level of operation enabling the organization to effectively manage its operation overt eh vast areas of influence. Crips gang had an hierarchy layered level of organization. Since it was majorly focused on the east coast, local areas were organized into sets that were headed by recognized leaders loyal to the overall leader of the gang (Fitzgerald, …show more content…
Traditionally the terrorist group was known to use brutal violence to murder as intimidation of the target population in the southern states. This lead to congressional legislation to pass enforcement acts and rigorously laws that have inhibited use of overwhelm force by the ku Klan Klux (Bjelopera, 2012). The members are famously known for their white wardrobe, burning of cross during their protests and rallies. They are majorly extremists who believe in the klanraft practice which incited that other American races are inferior to the Caucasian race.
However unlike Crips gang, KKK promotes fight against drugs, immigration as well as homosexuality. Apart black, the Jews, catholic, lesbians and gay association have borne the brutal force offense of this ethnic terrorist’s organization (Sullaway, 2016). Murder, rapes are common signature activities against target population of these two criminal organizations. These impulsive terrorism groups have no respect for constitutional authority and are known for use of force against law enforcement offices as well abuse of minors (Pearlman & Simpson,
This group brutally killed anyone who opposed their view of what’s right, in public areas for example “John W. Stephens, State Senator from Caswell, is dead. He was foully murdered by the Ku-Klux in the Grand Jury room of the Court House on Saturday… He was stabbed five or six times, and then hanged on a hook in the Grand Jury room”. This didn’t only effect this one unfortunate person, but because of their intentional publicity it scares everyone and gives them the message that if they oppose they could end up like their previous
The Klu klux klan was the largest terrorist group in American history to murder more than hundreds of thousands of people not only blacks but anyone who was outspoken about their support for civil rights. For example in document A the political cartoon depicts a horse that represents the kkk and two white men who were lynched; one of the men represents a carpetbagger and the other represents scalawags. Carpetbaggers were new people from the north who were working to form new governments and scalawags were white southerners who were supportive of reconstruction. The text states “... another brave, honest Republican citizen has met his fate at the hands of these fiends..” The man was left hanged in a jury room; the kkk would go to extreme measure to make examples out of others to control through fear.
Hooded Americanism: The First Century of the Ku Klux Klan: 1865 to the Present by David Chalmers records the history of the Ku Klux Klan quite bluntly, all the way from its creation following the civil war, to the early 1960’s. The author starts the book quite strongly by discussing in detail many acts of violence and displays of hatred throughout the United States. He makes a point to show that the Klan rode robustly throughout all of the country, not just in the southern states. The first several chapters of the book focus on the Klan’s creation in 1865. He goes on to discuss the attitude of many Americans following the United State’s Civil War and how the war shaped a new nation. The bulk of the book is used to go through many of
The Ku Klux Klan, known as the KKK, has been one of the most feared groups in America since the end of the civil war during post-war reconstruction.. The civil war was not just about the rights of the black man, but it was a very important part. People in the north mostly believed the black person was due the same liberties insured by the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment of the constitution gave equal protection to former slaves. However people in the south saw the black man as inferior and a slave needed to work on the plantation. This led to continued unrest after the war. Some felt the black man and those that supported his cause needed to be stopped. They wanted to control the black population. The Klan also would torture white people who were sympathetic to the blacks and their situation.
The Ku Klux Klan is a homegrown terrorist organization responsible for countless murders of African Americans throughout the south as well as projecting white supremacy by terrorizing opposing. At the end of Reconstruction, the KKK and White Leagues (opposition to the Union Leagues, made up of southern whites and members of the KKK) helped elect the Democratic party to power through repressive measures on the black citizens in the south. This era of states rights began with the help of terrorist groups who worked to deny the right to vote to black citizens. The KKK also used terror to keep control
The Klu Klux Klan was formed in 1866 by a group of Confederate soldiers in Pulaski, Tennessee. It was a social club or fraternity for the veterans but later had different views and became a terrorist group (PBS). The name of the group came from the Greek word “kyklos” meaning circle and then they added Klan to make the name flow (History.com Staff). It did not start with the thought of malicious activity. They would have secret meetings and elaborate ceremonies to discuss how they could stop reconstruction after the civil war. The members would wear white sheets that covered their whole body and pointy white caps to make them appear taller. This was an all white group and ended up being one of the deadliest terrorist groups (EyeWitness to History). General Nathan Bedford Forrest was the Klu Klux Klan’s first “grand wizard,” also known as
The KKK made their beliefs clear, and imprinted the memories of them by committing acts of hatred on those whom they opposed. Even though the KKK had reemerged in the South in 1915, it wasn’t until after World War I came to a close that the organization gained a national resurgence (Getchell). This version of the Klan was known as “The Second Ku Klux Klan.” The resurgent Klan of the 1920s was a short-lived but potent phenomenon. The second KKK was a mass movement that invoked the memory of and built upon the first KKK, which was a terrorist organization founded by white supremacists in the U.S. South (“The Ku Klux Klan In Washington State, 1920s”) The majority of klan members confined their opposition tactics to parading and burning crosses,
The Ku Klux Klan had three eras, an era ends when the Ku Klux Klan movement dies out or they loss the need for it. Each era may have its own intentions or what their main goal is, but white supremacy is still their goal just trying to accomplish it in different ways, while also opposing thing that may go against their moral code, like gay marriage. The Ku Klux Klan is an origination focused on having white supremacy, it has existed for many years and has had three eras, it is most known for its act violent acts of terrorism.
Ku Klux Klan - is the name of three distinct past and present far-right organizations in the United States, which have advocated extremist reactionary currents such as white supremacy, white nationalism, and anti-immigration, historically expressed through
“The first incarnation of the KKK formed just after the Civil War, using terrorist violence as a means of maintaining white supremacy, but its influence "waxed and waned," as Gordon puts it, over the decades that followed” (Waxman 2). The Ku Klux Klan, aka KKK, is a white supremacist group who has done many cruel things to African Americans. Throughout many years, the KKK has grown power over politics, the news, and television as ways to try and exterminate African Americans. The KKK is a group that think the white people have the power over the African Americans, and that African Americans should not be treated as fair. Overall, the Ku Klux Klan impacted society through violence, white supremacy, and the nationwide attention the group was
The Klan usually wears masks, white sheets, and cardboard hats. This is seen as one of America's first genuine terrorist group, having a commitment to reach its ideal achievements through acts of uttermost torture and violence. The KKK or The Klan, is a white bigot group and evolution with the goal of racial discrimination. The KKK determined to make sure anyone who was characterized as a foreigner was resented, killed and torched. Numerous of African Americans, whites who were affectionate towards them, as well as many immigrants of all and any countries. This Klan appearance began after the Civil War and as kept its main target on violence and
The Ku Klux Klan was a politically and racially motivated group that discouraged and frustrated attempts at racial equality (Bowles 2011). They were against all equality for anyone who supported a Union or was black. They were in control of the Southern states and they ran amuck abusing and murdering anyone they felt would threaten their way of life and the local and state governments sat back and supported their efforts to keep the blacks enslaved at all costs. In and article written by the Harper’s Weekly paper about the atrocities in the South it stated that,
A year into the Klan, leaders wanted to create a hierarchical organization. As a result, in 1867, Klan’s from all over the South gathered in Tennessee and gave former Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest full control of the Klan (The History Channel, 2005). Later interviewed by a Charleston newspaper, Forrest boasted that the member count exceeded 40,000 men in Tennessee alone and over 550,000 in all the Southern states (The Charleston, 1868). Never achieving organization, local chapters continued to go about their business, settling things in a way they deemed fit, this, in turn, would be one of the reasons for the decline of the Klan.
The second Ku Klux Klan lasted between 1915 to 1944 but predominantly rose and fell during the 1920s. The Ku Klux Klan was a white supremacist group with millions of members who brutally tortured and killed anyone who was not a white American. The Ku Klux Klan were known for their white robes, cone hats, and covered faces that disguised their identities. The second Ku Klux Klan’s most important part of it’s history was it’s dramatic rise and fall. The Ku Klux Klan rapidly gained popularity during the 1920s due to political encouragement and immigration, then fell due to political corruption.
The Ku Klux Klan has been around since the end of the civil war. It is a roller coaster of a history. From extreme power, to rapid decline, and slow reemergence. The clan, who is notorious for its violence, has a relatively innocent beginning. It was formed from some veterans from the confederate army and was first called the Kuklos Clan which, in Greek, meant Circle Clan. One person thought it would be a good idea to call it the "Ku Klux Klan" as a parody of the fraternity names which always had three Greek alphabet letters in it. They created the Clan to be mischievous and to do it without anyone knowing who they were which accounts for their costumes