During the presentation I thought what was most interesting was the rise of the Ku klux klan. I found it very interesting because I never thought a group of people could spread so quickly into a mass organization where so many people were involved over so many states, not just southern states but northern states too.
During the presentation I learned that the first group of clan members were mainly in the south during the 1860s and 70s.
What was surprising is that it was made up of many people that had credible roles in the country. Many were politicians, doctors, policemen, and business owners.
Eventually congress dismantled the Ku Klux Klan and it eventually died out. What I did not know was that there was a revival of the Klan because of the movie Birth of a Nation, a movie that depicted the Klan as saviors, showing them riding in and saving poor white people from black people.
The second wave of people that joined the Klan tried recreating the actions in the movie and they were not only against blacks, but jews and other nationalities and religions as well.
What was really astonishing was that the Klan was killing and lynching these people, and they were allowed to congregate and march through Pennsylvania Avenue.
During the presentation I thought about a movie I watched on the KKK called The Blackkklansman. It was about a black man who worked with the police to infiltrate the KKK over phone calls and decoy people to expose the group.
This reminded me of the original and first Klan members because during the movie their was not much killing and lynching of black people and other races.
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