The Ku Klux Klan started after and because of the civil war.

“Slavery ended a long time ago. Blacks have it much better today. Why can’t they just get over it?” .-
There’s an never ending list of Americans that still think this way. I was reading my friend's post today, and it said that racism has been going on for 300 years now!
The truth is racism is still very present in the US.

And a way to prove this, is the KKK still exists. African-Americans, Jews and Catholics are only some of the groups
tormented by these white supremacists.
So let me tell you a little part of the Ku Klux Klan story.

As we all know the US Civil War was a conflict between the Northern and the Southern states. The states in the South (Confederates) wanted to be independent because they wanted to keep slavery going on in their own country. But the ones in the North (Union) besides being against slavery, wanted to keep just one country. The North won. Not long after this happened, in 1866 a group of ex- Confederates, the majority being democratic and extremely racist, created a association called the Ku Klux Klan.

It was made to keep White Americans in the government and prevent the African Americans from revolting. The Klan resisted Reconstruction by intimidating the new free man.

They started by scaring them with their particular masks and white robes. But it didn’t take them too long to use violent methods. They started killing a lot of people. By doing this they were killing the hopes and dreams of liberty of the free surviving African-American man. That sense of Privacy that America had was not made for them as long as the crosses kept burning every day.

Fifty three years passed and Mrs. Till couldn't forget That her son Emmett Till was murder just because he tried to make the rights for African American people real. He was murdered by the KKK. And she had to live with that. Do you really think that's living?

KKK started growing more and more, the terrible fact is we are now in 2008 and they still keep forming new groups. Maybe not killing people as much as they used to, but the fear is still there.The KKK lives to say that racism in America is still going on. And getting worst.

















You have to watch this!!


link here Till's mother talking.


Here are some link's to the history of the KKK.


Easy to read KKK history


Obama and the KKK
Burning a cross
The second Klan