The Klu Klux Klan (KKK)
This group was white supremacist organization that was founded in 1866. Throughout this groups notorious history the KKK has used acts of terrorism including murder, lynching, arson, rape, and bombing. They did these things to oppose the granting of the civil rights to African Americans. The group used a greek word called “kuklos” meaning group or band.
The KKK adopted a hooded white costume which was a disguise to avoid identification and to frighten victims during nighttime raids. The congress passed the civil rights act of 1781, which was frequently referred to as the Klu Klux Klan act which made the night-riding a crime and empowered the president to send troops to put down the acts.
Hugo L.Black is remembered as a disguinshed U.S supreme court justice, a progressive U.S senator, and an able trial attorney. The uprising caused by Hugo doomed his court appointment of his disclosure of the uprising came just a few weeks later after the case. In 1923 Black became a attorney member in Birmingham, Alabama, he joined the KKK on September 23, 1923. During Blacks career in court was reluctant to discuss why he joined the KKK and Black remained a member of the KKK for several years later.
The KKK adopted a hooded white costume which was a disguise to avoid identification and to frighten victims during nighttime raids. The congress passed the civil rights act of 1781, which was frequently referred to as the Klu Klux Klan act which made the night-riding a crime and empowered the president to send troops to put down the acts.
Hugo L.Black is remembered as a disguinshed U.S supreme court justice, a progressive U.S senator, and an able trial attorney. The uprising caused by Hugo doomed his court appointment of his disclosure of the uprising came just a few weeks later after the case. In 1923 Black became a attorney member in Birmingham, Alabama, he joined the KKK on September 23, 1923. During Blacks career in court was reluctant to discuss why he joined the KKK and Black remained a member of the KKK for several years later.