Disunity: The Klu Klux Klan as a Splintered Hate Faction

... Disunity: The Klu Klux Klan as a Splintered Hate Faction Jessica McCann Sandra Marshall Wells 101 Friday November 30, 2001 For more than 130 years, the Klu Klux Klan1 has provided a model for extremists by actively practicing and promoting bigotry, intimidation and violence. The original Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865 to 1866, by six former Confederate army officers who gave their society a name adapted from the Greek word kuklos ("circle"). Although the Klu Klux Klan began as a prankish social organization, its activities soon were directed against the Republican Reconstruction governments and their leaders, both black and white, which came into power in the southern states in 1867. The economic, political and cultural changes in the South after the Civil War, the dislocations in the early 1920s, and the struggle for civil rights in the 1950s and 1960s all fueled Klan growth. Despite its dwindling influence today

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