The police were the Klan.
Church of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Klan membership in Alabama dropped to less than 6,000 by 1930.
Independent Klan groups remained active in Birmingham
and violently opposed the Civil Rights Movement.
In states such as Alabama and Mississippi, Klan members forged alliances with governors' administrations.
These are not your traditional Klan robes you would see at any KKK rally.
I decided I was going to make the best quality Klan robes in America.
When one civic group began to publish Klan membership lists, the number of members quickly declined.
In states such as Alabama and Mississippi, Klan members also forged alliances with the governors' administrations.
A Ku Klux Klan member would be mortified to learn
that he was actually a Black man.
After one civic group began to publish Klan membership lists, there was a rapid decline in members.
Members were hiding behind Klan masks and robes as a way to avoid prosecution for freelance violence.
Although Klan members were concentrated in the South,
Midwest and west, there were some members in New England, too.
In southern cities such as Birmingham, Alabama, Klan members controlled access to better-paying industrial jobs,
but opposed labor unions.
A few weeks later,
Forrest was selected as Imperial Wizard, the Klan's national leader, though he always denied leadership.
Lynchings of African Americans, far from being ended by the Klan''s disintegration,
instead peaked in 1892 with 161 deaths.
At the same time, in cities Klan members were themselves working in industrial environments
and often struggled with working conditions.
In 1870 and
1871, the federal government passed the Enforcement Acts, which were intended to prosecute and suppress Klan crimes.
After one civic group began to publish Klan membership lists, there was a
rapid decline in the number of Klan members.
In southern cities such as Birmingham, Alabama, Klan members kept control of access to the better-paying industrial jobs
but opposed unions.
Ellis was an equally poor but white parent who was proud to be
Exalted Cyclops of the local Ku Klux Klan.
Members of the Ku Klux Klan often called in bomb threats to the church
during civil rights meetings and church services.
The Klan warned Negroes that they must respect the rights
of the white race'in whose country they are permitted to reside.'.
What is a black
man to do in America when he can't find the quality Klan robe that he's looking for?
During this time, the Ku Klux Klan also emerged alongside local and state Jim Crow laws,
which legalized racial and residential segregation.
In 1966 SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael began urging African
American communities to confront the Ku Klux Klan armed and ready for battle.
In major Southern cities such as Birmingham, Alabama, Klan members kept control of access to the better-paying industrial jobs
and opposed unions.
Germany is also known for the Ku Klux Klan so when you hear the name you will
remember the history behind it.