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> On Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:37:26 -0700, Cicero_Venatio
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> >If Obama would simply step aside, Perry, or Cruz are ready now to assume
> >leadership and save the nation.
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Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost
every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white
southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era
policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality
for blacks. Its members waged an underground campaign of
intimidation and violence directed at white and black Republican
leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb
Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the
reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic
victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.
After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups
revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and
staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants,
Catholics, Jews, blacks and organized labor. The civil rights
movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity,
including bombings of black schools and churches and violence
against black and white activists in the South.