I know, I know. But it isn't as far fetched as it sounds. Most of you history folks know the old saying;"those that don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it". We all know about the 1914 upsurge in popularity in the KKK after the silent film "Birth of a Nation? Other wise it was dying. (the KKK) Politicians at the time (Denver mayor Stapleton aligned with the KKK) just for political expediency...not that he really believed that popular fleeting angry mob mentality . We are repeating history here. Chinese meddling? This impeachment, corona 19 and BLM riots didn't just happen spontaneously.
Why do you keep spamming the board with your half truths and confused state of mind about BLM and the KKK? One cannot be the same as the other because of its opposite ends of the political spectrum on race.? When Birth of a Nation was made there was no KKK
The first Klan was founded in
Pulaski, Tennessee, on December 24, 1865
[22] by six former officers of the
Confederate army:
[23] Frank McCord, Richard Reed, John Lester, John Kennedy, J. Calvin Jones and James Crowe.
[24] It started as a fraternal social club inspired at least in part by the then largely defunct
Sons of Malta. It borrowed parts of the initiation ceremony from that group, with the same purpose: "ludicrous initiations, the baffling of public curiosity, and the amusement for members were the only objects of the Klan", according to Albert Stevens in 1907.
[25] The manual of rituals was printed by Laps D. McCord of Pulaski.
[26]
In 1915, the second Klan was founded atop
Stone Mountain, Georgia by
William Joseph Simmons. While Simmons relied on documents from the original Klan and memories of some surviving elders, the revived Klan was based significantly on the wildly popular film,
The Birth of a Nation. The earlier Klan had not worn the white costumes or burned crosses; these were aspects introduced in
the book on which the film was based. When the film was shown in
Atlanta in December of that year, Simmons and his new klansmen paraded to the theater in robes and pointed hoods—many on robed horses—just like in the movie. These mass parades would become another hallmark of the new Klan that had not existed in the original Reconstruction-era organization.
[34]
The "Ku Klux Klan" name was used by numerous independent local groups opposing the
civil rights movement and
desegregation, especially in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, they often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in
Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with
George Wallace of
Alabama.
[42] Several members of Klan groups were convicted of murder in the deaths of civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 and children in the
bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963.
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