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The Klan Unmasked - Online Term Paper

The Klan Unmasked

The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many
different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil
War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless
incidents of human rights violations against blacks and other minority
groups in America. Especially in the South, during and after the
Reconstruction period, the Klan played a major part in formulating and
forcefully employing many of the Jim Crow laws, that delayed black man’s
true freedom for a century.
Stetson Kennedy is a native of Jacksonville, Florida
where the Klan was very active. Kennedy saw first hand the working of the
Klan when a maid in his house was ...

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breaking movie “The Birth of a
Nation”. Kennedy noted that the Klan was actually the handiwork of the
rich Southern plantation holders, who wanted to keep the black labor
force under chains similar to those of slavery.

Also, Kennedy noted that the few things written about the
KKK were editorials rather than exposes. He felt the need for not just
words but for legal evidence against the Klan’s inside machinations. For
that purpose someone would have to go under a Klan robe and turn the
hooded order’s dirty linen for all the world to see. The author decided
to volunteer for the job and thus began his adventures as a Klan-buster,
in the headquarters of the Klan at the time in Atlanta. The first few
chapters relate his experiences at the Klan meetings and his mostly
successful efforts to report the planned acts of hooded terrorism to
authorities.

Soon enough, Kennedy had enough incriminating evidence
against the Klan. In an action ...

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Added: 8/26/2007 05:25:59 AM
Category: Book Reports
Type: Premium Paper
Words: 539
Pages: 2

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