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what would happen if they voted or took positions of power. They often whipped, mutilated or even killed any black that didn't comply with the KKK's ideas.

The Second Era of the KKK reigned from 1915-1925. This Second Era of Klansmen came together against the blacks that were trying to take a spot in the community with the NAACP. The Klan provided middle-class whites with stability. This era of the Klan came together against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, Asians, immigrants, anyone who had pre-and extra-marital escapades, and many other minorities. This Klan era was the First Era to use automobiles as part of the lynching.

The Third Era was started in May of 1954 when the Supreme Court ruled that segregating of public schools by race was unconstitutional. This generation of Klansmen at one point numbered 40,000. In 1857 as a result of the Montgomery Bus boycott, a group of Klan members torched four African American Churches. At one point a count was taken and there had ...

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