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Klansmanism is the ideology representing the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a far-right racist terrorist organization that emerged in the United States in 1865. It was founded by 6 Ex-Dxiecrat soldiers who were saddened by the abolition of slavery and dressed in regaila to avenge their countrymen killed in the American Civil War by killing blacks and burning their houses. There are three versions of the KKK because the police kept killing them several times.

History

First Klan (1865-1871)

The first Klan was founded in Pulaski, Tennessee by six Confederate veterans on December 24, 1865. It was founded as a fraternal organization and eventually adopted hoods resembling Mardi Gras. Members would intimidate formerly enslaved people and promote white supremacy. It spread throughout the South as an insurgent movement and harshly resisted Reconstruction.

The first Klan lacked an organizational structure and initially lacked a leader. This changed when Nathan Bedford Forrest joined the Klan in the spring of 1866 and became involved later in the same year. By early 1867, the Klan decided to appoint Forrest as their leader.

The Klan would target formerly enslaved blacks, Republicans, and whites who supported African American rights, using threats and violence, including murder, in an effort to establish white supremacy. Members would occasionally lure their targets by using different sounds such as animal noises, a fake German accent, or acting playful. The results of the first Klan were mixed. Although it weakened the Black political leadership, as well as those of their allies, through threats of violence and assassinations, it also resulted in a powerful backlash and led to laws that cracked down on Klan activity. In 1871, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which led to the dismantling of the first Klan.

In 1876, tensions soared in the Southern United States over the results of the Presidential Election. Republican presidential candidate Rutherford B. Hayes won the presidency despite losing the popular vote to Democratic candidate Samuel J. Tilden. Republicans and Southern Democrats secretly reached a deal: Rutherford B. Hayes would become president. In exchange, federal troops would be removed from the South and Reconstruction would cease. Consequentially, white Democrats would regain control of state legislatures, as well as their seats in Congress, throughout the South. The first Klan, although dissolved, has attributed to helping with this process.

Second Klan (1915-1944)

The second Klan was founded atop Stone Mountain, Georgia by William Joseph Simmons in 1915. The revived Klan adopted the white costume and cross burning, both of which have become associated with the organization in addition to the usage of K-words which were similar to those used by the first Klan. While it relied on documents and surviving elders from the first Klan, the second Klan was heavily inspired by the wildly popular film The Birth of a Nation, a film that depicted African Americans as villains and the Klan as the heroes.

Unlike its predecessor, the second Klan had organizational structures at the national and state level. By the mid-1920s, membership peaked at over 3 million.

While the second Klan, like its 19th-century predecessor, targeted Black people, it also campaigned against Jews, Catholics, LGBT people, communists, and most immigrants, including, but not limited to, the Irish, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks, Spanish, Mexicans, Russians/ Soviets, and any nationality from Asia or Africa while supporting immigration from Britain, particularly from England, successfully lobbying in favor of the Emergency Quota Act, which capped the number of immigrants admitted from any country per year to 3% of the number of residents living in the U.S. as of the 1910 Census, as well as the Immigration Act of 1924, which banned nearly all immigration from Asia and set quotas on the number of immigrants from other nations, favoring those from Northern and Western Europe. They also advocated for prohibition and non-interventionism.

By the 1920s, the majority of its members lived in the Midwest and West, including nearly 20% of Indiana's population. In the South, members were staunch Democrats. In the rest of the country, Klansmen included both Democrats and Republicans, as well as independents. Several politicians affiliated with the Klan have taken office such as John Brown Gordon, Rufus C. Holman, and Willian Bliss Pine. Some politicians who were not members also received support from the Klan.

In 1925, Madge Oberholtzer, a white woman, was murdered by D.C. Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The brutal attack outraged most members of the Indiana Klan and left the organization en masse. By 1930, Klan membership dropped to around 30,000, and by the 1940s, the second Klan collapsed, due to the IRS levying a massive tax liability against the organization.

The second Klan was less violent than both the first and third Klans, though it was not entirely non-violent, especially in the South. The most violent chapter was the one in Dallas, Texas. In April 1921, the Dallas Klan kidnapped Alex Johnson, a black man accused of sexual activity with a white woman. They branded the letters "KKK" on his forehead and severely beat him near a riverbed. The police chief and district district attorney refused to prosecute, arguing that Johnson deserved the treatment. Encouraged by public approval, the Dallas KKK whipped 68 people in 1922 alone. Although Johnson was black, most of the Dallas KKK's whipping victims were white men who were accused of offenses against their wives such as adultery, extramarital affairs, wife beating, abandoning their wives, gambling, or refusing to pay child support. The Dallas Klan often invited journalists to attend the whippings so they could write articles about them in the following day's newspaper. Another notable violent Klan was the Alabama chapter which was less chivalrous than the Dallas chapter. This chapter was known for whipping both black and white women who were accused of fornication, adultery, or homosexuality. Although many Alabamans were outraged by the whippings of white women, no Klansmen were ever convicted of the violence. In 1937, the Klan raided La Paloma nightclub due to the nightclub supporting the LGBT+ community. Around 200 "night riders" walked into the nightclub and began demolishing furniture, attacked employees, threatened to burn the building down, and ordered everyone to leave the club. Shortly after the Ku Klux Klan raid, Dade County Sheriff David Coleman described the nightclub as a "menace" and promised to keep it indefinitely closed. Coleman ordered the nightclub to cease operations and ordered a police raid there two weeks later. Despite this, La Paloma reopened within weeks and a skit was performed that featured performers satirizing the Klan raid and donning white hoods.

Third Klan (1950-1971)

The Klan was revived again in the form of the third Klan, which rose up as opposition to the Civil Right Movement and was probably the most powerful and violent incarnation of the Klan. This incarnation of the KKK enjoyed a large amount of protection from corrupt politicians and law enforcement officers such as Bull Connor. This gave them a large amount of freedom to commit numerous hate crimes and lynchings against blacks.

Despite violent actions by the likes of Byron De La Beckwith, J. B. Stoner, Robert Edward Chambliss, and others, the Klan continued to lose influence and was on the losing end of the civil rights struggle. After the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the third Klan largely collapsed.

The third Klan was the last time the KKK existed as a national, uniform organization.

Fourth Klan (1971-)

The fourth incarnation of the Klan arose in 1971 and exists to present day in the form of various independent organizations. Because the organization no longer exists as a centralized group at the national level, the current incarnation of the Klan has considerably less influence and poses less danger than the previous Klans. However, these groups do still perpetrate hate crimes and continue to follow the mission of the other Klans.

In the late 2000's and early 2010's it experienced a small revival because of the Great Recession and Barack Obama being elected President. However, it was still divided, largely over the issue of appearance and imagery, with "traditionalists" wanting to follow 1920's and 1960's style and look good for the media, and "militants" wanting to embrace imagery from(and alliances with) other white supremacists, such as neo-Nazis and White Power Skinheads, along with a more paramilitary style and even threatening opposing leaders. A notable incidence of this was when the traditionalist Southern Alliance of Klans organized a protest in Selmer, Tennesee, which the militant Church of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan attempted to join, much to the SAK's displeasure.

Many modern Klan groups are associated with the Alt-Right.

How to draw

Flag of Klansmanism
  1. Draw a ball.
  2. Make the ball three vertical stripes, one white, two red.
  3. Draw the KKK symbol.
  4. (OPTIONAL) Draw a white robe
  5. Add the eyes
  6. You're done!

Relations

Friends

Frenemies/Mixed

  • Gamerism - I too love saying the "Gamer Word" but you need to go outside and shoot at those ni**ers!
  • Catholic Nazism - Not bad for a catholix.

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