How did the KKK afect to 1920's?
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The second Ku Klux Klan rose to great prominence and spread from the South into the Midwest region and Northern states and even into Canada. At its peak, Klan membership exceeded 4 million and comprised 20% of the adult white male population in many broad geographic regions, as high as 40% in some areas. Most of the membership resided in Midwestern states.\n\nThrough sympathetic elected officials, the KKK controlled the governments of Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, and Oregon in addition to some of the Southern legislatures. Klan influence was particularly strong in Indiana, where Republican Klansman Edward Jackson was elected governor in 1924, and the entire apparatus of state government was riddled with Klansmen. In another well-known example from the same year, the Klan decided to make Anaheim, California, into a model Klan city; it secretly took over the city council, but was voted out in a special recall election.\n\nKlan delegates played a significant role at the pathsetting 1924 Democratic National Convention in New York City, often called the "Klanbake Convention" as a result. The convention initially pitted Klan-backed candidate William McAdoo against New York Governor Al Smith, who drew the opposition of the group because of his Catholic faith. After days of stalemates and rioting, both candidates withdrew in favor of a compromise. Klan delegates defeated a Democratic Party platform plank that would have condemned their organization. On July 4, 1924, thousands of Klansmen converged on a nearby field in New Jersey where they participated in cross burnings, burned effigies of Smith, and celebrated their defeat of the platform plank.\n\nA number of highly notable political figures in the U.S. and Canada joined the Klan or flirted with membership. The list includes two Supreme Court justices and, according to evidence which is in some cases contested, possibly two presidents.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan
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It had restricted membership and operates through a close circle of buddies.\n\nIt was not secret. It just did not advertise publicly.\n\nBy the way, the KKK is still active. Look up http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/klan.htm
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That is so sad.  I had an Uncle who was a member of the KKK for awhile.  Don't know how he ended up there, the rest of the family is not racist whatsoever.  I can't believe that people are still like that in this day and age.  Narrow mindedness is right!!!!
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Landless white men: 1856 \nNon-whites: 1870 \nWomen: 1920 \nNative Americans: 1924 \nAdults between 18 and 21: 1971\n\nThe Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, one of three adopted in response to the American Civil War, prevented any state from denying the right to vote to any male citizen twenty-one years old or older on account of his race. Particularly in the South, however, many practical barriers were erected to this becoming a reality. Most abused was the literacy test. The ability to read and write the English language was not banned as a basis for determining voter eligibility by this amendment and blacks were often denied the right to vote on this basis. Even literate blacks were often told they had "failed" such a test, if in fact, it had even actually been administered. On the other hand, illiterate whites were often allowed to vote through a "Grandfather clause" which waived literacy requirments if one's grandfather had been a qualified voter, which for most blacks in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War was an impossibility. Selective enforcement of the poll tax was frequently also used to disqualify black voters, a fact which led to the eventual adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment. Intimidation tactics were employed to bar blacks from voting as well, such as "night rides" by the Ku Klux Klan. Economic tactics such as eviction from rental housing or termination of employment were also used . Such practices did not fully end until the American Civil Rights Movement scored one of its greatest triumphs when it encouraged the passage by Congress of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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"Ku Klux Klan" is the name of a number of past and present fraternal organizations in the United States that have advocated white supremacy and anti-Semitism; and in the past century, anti-Catholicism, and nativism.\n\nThe Klan's first incarnation was in 1866. Founded by veterans of the Confederate Army, its main purpose was to resist Congressional Reconstruction, and it focused as much on intimidating "carpetbaggers" and "scalawags" as on putting down the freed slaves. It quickly adopted violent methods, and was involved in a wave of 1,300 murders of Republican voters in 1868. A rapid reaction set in, with the Klan's leadership disowning it, and Southern elites seeing the Klan as an excuse for federal troops to continue their activities in the South. The organization was in decline from 1868 to 1870, and was destroyed in the early 1870s by President Ulysses S. Grant's vigorous action under the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act).\n\nThe founding in 1915 of a second distinct group using the same name was inspired by the newfound power of the modern mass media, via the film The Birth of a Nation and inflammatory and anti-Semitic newspaper accounts surrounding the trial and lynching of accused murderer Leo Frank. The second KKK was a formal membership organization, with a national and state structure, that paid thousands of men to organize local chapters all over the country. Millions joined and at its peak in the 1920s the organization included about 15% of the nation's eligible population.[1] The second KKK typically preached Racism, anti-Catholicism, nativism, and anti-Semitism and some local groups took part in lynchings and other violent activities. Its popularity fell during the Great Depression, and membership fell again during World War II, due to scandals resulting from prominent members' crimes and support of the Nazis.\n\nToday, the third KKK, with operations in separated small local units, is considered an extreme hate group. The third KKK has been disowned by all mainstream media and political and religious leaders.\n\nThe name "Ku Klux Klan" has since been used by many different unrelated groups, including many who opposed the Civil Rights Act and desegregation in the 1960s. Today, dozens of organizations with chapters across the United States and other countries use all or part of the name in their titles, but their total membership is estimated to be only a few thousand.\n\nCreation\nThe original Ku Klux Klan was created after the end of the American Civil War on December 24, 1865, by six educated, middle-class Confederate veterans[2] who were bored with postwar Pulaski, Tennessee. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (circle) with "clan."[3] It was at first a humorous social club centering on practical jokes and hazing rituals.[4] From 1866 to 1867, the Klan began breaking up black prayer meetings and invading black homes at night to steal firearms. Some of these activities may have been modeled on previous Tennessee vigilante groups such as the Yellow Jackets and Redcaps.\n\nIn an 1867 convention held in Nashville, the Klan was formalized as a national organization under a "Prescript" written by George Gordon, a former Confederate brigadier general. The Prescript states as the Klan's purposes:[5]\n\nFirst: To protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs and outrages of the lawless, the violent and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppressed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the widows and orphans of the Confederate soldiers. \nSecond: To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States ... \nThird: To aid and assist in the execution of all constitutional laws, and to protect the people from unlawful seizure, and from trial except by their peers in conformity with the laws of the land. \nStripped of obfu
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Sounds like homework... \nProbably should do some of you own thinking here... but here are a few ideas to get started with...\n(a) What sort of state were the former Confiderate states in? Had they used their manpower and economic resources to better economies or to fight the war?  What was their infrastructure like? Were there roads, towns, etc. left after Sherman's March to the Sea?  \n(b) What was the South's economic system like? With slaves freed, how was the economy (which required lots of manual labor on large plantations) going to function?  How were the white and black citizens in the south going to live together / work together after one class of people were literally property?\n\n(2) You might find starting information on Johnson's reconstruction plans here:\n(This is wikipedia, so you need better sources, but it's a start)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction
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This is a great website URL and will contain all the information you are looking for.\n\nhttp://timelines.ws/20thcent/TWENTIETHCENT.HTML
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the 1920's flapper is a style of clothing... women usually wore straight dresses that didn't show any curves (they were trying to get away from stereotypes that were put on women during that time, they usually had their hair cut short, wore their shoes open meaning they were unlaced, also many of these women went to speakeasies, but most were young and were trying to go against what their parents wanted of them. So in response to your question... they were real, and represented a turning point in history when women began to protest against the norms.
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reconstruction in the south
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When there became different races.
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KKK members have low self-esteem, which they try to fix by seeking a group identity. They don't want to confront their own inadequacy, so they blame others for their problems. They are allowed to protest because this is a free country.
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Reconstruction era and also carpetbag era.\nAlso post bellum.
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http://cdcga.org/HTMLs/decades/1870s.htm\n\nclick the links below to view other decades !!\n\ngood luck !
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from April 15, 1865, to July 15, 1870\n\nthe period after the Civil War
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More differences between people in the North and The South. Formation of KKK. Decrease in racism and the end of slavery. It caused an increase in U.S. Pride and power.
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1st generation to reach their teens since WorldWar2 were appalled at the racism/violence (killings of JFK/MLK/RFK) and the military industrial complex (undeclared war:Vietnam)\nThey rebelled against their parents'society by protesting war and racial injustice/wearing hair long/using "recreational" drugs/enjoying "free love"(thanks to "the Pill")/wearing colorful clothes (hippy fashion),etc.
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The origins of the use of the costume are unclear, but it does seem certain that it was originally intended to be some kind of disguise. Although the organization has no relationship with Spain, the contemporary white gown with a cone hat follows the Spanish Roman Catholic "Nazareno" tradition, where such garments have been commonly used since time immemorial in festivities such as the Holy Week symbolizing the act of penance. In Spain and former colonies the pointed hat is called "Capirote".\n\nIt has been stated that the novels of Sir Walter Scott and others influenced the organisation in various ways—for example, in the use of the Fiery cross—so they may have also influenced the KKK's costume.\n\nThere are a number of explanations given as to what it represents:\n\nThe ghosts of the Confederate troops in the American Civil War. \nThe white represents the white race, reflecting the racist ideals of the organization. \nThe pointed hood also resembles that of a medieval executioner (although this was usually black, and that of grand inquisitor.) \nThe red cross on the white costume, and the horse resembles that of crusaders. \nThe costume was similar in design to those worn by the Spanish Inquisition, with the exception of the hood. \nThe white outfit may also be reflective of supposed Druid costume.[1] \nBecause of the symbolism and appearance of these costumes, superstitious blacks in the South thought KKK night riders were the actual ghosts of Confederate soldiers, riding their horses out of Hell to find a drink of water.\n\nThe KKK's own militaristic origins in the Civil War also played a part in developing, and turned the Klan into a Proto-Fascist organization (true Fascism did not arise for several decades, and then in Europe).\n\nThe KKK still exists in the US today - predominantly in the South, and has ties to numerous other "purity" groups.