Klansville USA Reaction

In class we watched a documentary about the start of the Klu Klux Klan and how it affected America at the time. This topic is intertwined with everything we have learned in this semester. It shows slavery and the mistreatment of people with color and how the south evolved.

They started off by introducing the leader of the first Klan: Bob Jones. He was known for his advertising of the Klan and his events he put on to try to persuade people to their side of the racial segregation issue in America. They put on events that resembled that of a county fair, with live music, pigs, games, anything you could imagine to make people like them. Jones had a "partner" named George Dorsett, who was actually a baptist minister who thought the ideas of the KKK were right; he also became the KKK's official Chaplin. Jones' wife also had a role in his Klan. She invited all the women to help save their children to not be around African American people and to fight against black props bring in their kid's class at school, and they followed her. 

At almost every Klan meeting they ended it with some old hymns and the burning of a huge, wooden cross covered with burlap, and soaked in gasoline. They all stood around it and sang. I think this sign of "intimidation", although it might have worked, it was very disrespectful to the Christian religion. The Klu Klux Klan formed many peaceful walks and riots, until they began to be violent. In 1965, a white woman named Viola Liuzzo was violently killed by a KKK shooting while she was marching with Martin Luther King Jr. for the rights of everyone. After this, President Johnson wanted to shut down the KKK and their violence towards African Americans and the people that supported their rights. He never fully succeeded with this because there are still KKK member now in 2022, but he limited their actions. 

Altogether, the Klu Klux Klan was/is a very racist organization that should have never been a thing. They hurt so many people and did nothing to prove their point other than violence and segregation.