Ku Klux Klan Influence
After dying out in the late 1870s, the Ku Klux Klan, also known as the KKK has risen again, stronger than it was before. Starting in Stone Mountains, Georgia, William Simmons was able to resurrect the klan completely. The Ku Klux Klan has already gained total membership of four million members, and is growing rapidly in the South. They have already taken control over members serving in state legislatures and Congress, and were elected to the governorship in several states. Indiana, Oklahoma, Texas and Oregon saw significant Klan influence. Although the klan has increased to over 4 million members and is growing more by the day, joining the requires you to be a white male protestant, all others including Blacks, Jews, Catholics and immigrants
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W. Griffith's film Birth of A Nation, which portrayed the Klansmen as great heroes. Simmons made his living by selling memberships in fraternal organizations such as the Woodmen of the World, and looked to the Klan as a new source of membership sales. In his first official act, he climbed to the top of a local mountain and set a cross on fire to mark the rebirth of the Klan. As the people might think, the Ku Klux Klan is not filled with only poor and uneducated Americans, It also includes middle-class American, Doctors, lawyers and ministers. In Ohio alone their ranks surged have surged to 300,000. Even the northern states contained a large amount of Ku Klux Klan members. In Pennsylvania, membership has reached 200,000. The Klan remains a private society, but it is by no means isolated. the Klan has moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan has devised a strategy called the "decade," it means that every member of the Klan is responsible for recruiting people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. So far,the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they have placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. Known as the "Invisible Empire," the KKK's presence is felt across the country. Although it
W. Griffith's film Birth of A Nation, which portrayed the Klansmen as great heroes. Simmons made his living by selling memberships in fraternal organizations such as the Woodmen of the World, and looked to the Klan as a new source of membership sales. In his first official act, he climbed to the top of a local mountain and set a cross on fire to mark the rebirth of the Klan. As the people might think, the Ku Klux Klan is not filled with only poor and uneducated Americans, It also includes middle-class American, Doctors, lawyers and ministers. In Ohio alone their ranks surged have surged to 300,000. Even the northern states contained a large amount of Ku Klux Klan members. In Pennsylvania, membership has reached 200,000. The Klan remains a private society, but it is by no means isolated. the Klan has moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan has devised a strategy called the "decade," it means that every member of the Klan is responsible for recruiting people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. So far,the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. In some states, such as Colorado and Indiana, they have placed enough Klansmen in positions of power to effectively control the state government. Known as the "Invisible Empire," the KKK's presence is felt across the country. Although it