HATE GROUPS IN AMERICA

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HATE GROUPS IN AMERICA
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KU KLUX KLAN

• Phase 1
• 1865 during reconstruction
• after the Civil War
• Tennessee six former
• Confederate army officers
• Based on the Greek word
• kluklos or group
• Began as anti black
• Known for lynching, white sheets, burning
  crosses, tar and feather, OVERT discrimination

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KKK continued

• Imperial Wizard supreme commander
• Nathan Bedford Forrest
• Grand Dragons
• Great Titans
• Exalted Cyclops

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KKK Phase 2

• Focus on blacks AND all alien outsiders
• Immigrants
• Jews
• Catholics
• 1925 estimated 5 million members
• 1925 March on Washington DC
• Gain political power
• Overt discrimination continues
• Internal struggles and investigations of leaders
  reduces influence and popularity
• Depression and WWII slow down KKK

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KKK flier for Madison, WI rally in 1920s
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KKK Phase 3

• 1960s KKK is revitalized
• Lack of national organization
• Smaller self governed groups
• Opposition to the rising civil rights
• movement
• Goal Preserve segregation after
• court rulings
• Brown vs. Board of Education
• 1965 about 40,000 members
• Tactics Church bombings, boycotts, beatings
• intimidation

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KKK Phase 4

• 1970s Today
• Approximately 6,000 active members
• Less white sheets more shirts and ties
• Splinter groups found throughout USA
• including WI

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• According to the KKK
• the drop of blood refers
• to the blood shed by
• Jesus Christ as a sacrifice
• for the white race

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Neo - Nazis

• Hatred of Jews
• Belief of Hitler and Nazi Germany
• ANTI SEMITISM
• Also hate black, homosexuals, other
• minorities
• Some focus on political rebellion
• Publications banned in Europe
• Protected under free speech laws in USA
• USA breeding grounds for these groups

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Neo Nazi Faction Skinheads

• White Supremacists, anti-gay, anti-Jew
• Trademark Shaved heads and hate tattoos
• Began in England 1960s USA by 80s
• Often operate in small crews
• Focus on recruitment of teens
• Use of music and internet

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Christian Identity aka Aryan Nation

• Non Jewish whites are the children of God
• Jews are direct descendents of Satan
• Christ will not return until all Jews
• eradicated
• Non whites are mud people
• Began in 1970s
• Current membership low due to internal
• disputes

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Black Separatist

• Blacks who oppose integration and racial
• intermarriage
• Goal Create a separate nation for American
• blacks (if needed overthrow government)
• Anti white and anti Jew
• Blacks are the chosen children of God
• New Black Panthers (urban guerilla warfare?)
• Started in Milwaukee 1990
• Many groups are American black Muslims
• Nation of Islam

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Hate Groups in Wisconsin
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