All non-Protestants, liberals, (if there is such a person) trade unionists, and striking workers are denounced as subversives by the Ku Klux Klan, the Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the winter of 1865 by six Confederate army officers who gave their organization this name from the Greek word Ku Klos or circle. Membership is open to so-called white Protestant males 16 years of age or older; so-called Blacks, Moors, Roman Catholics, non-so-called whites and Jews are excluded. The Klan is very active in many states such as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Colorado, Oregon, Kansas and Oklahoma. In the early years, the Klan regarded the U.S. government as hostile and oppressive. The Klan also believed that the so-called African-Americans are inferior and therefore shall not and will not be allowed to rise above the status of a slave. There was another group of Klansmen that held a secret convention in Nashville Tennessee in 1867 they adopted a declaration of loyalty to the US Constitution and the Government of America. The convention designated the Klan as an invisible empire, provided for a supreme official called the Grand Wizard of the Empire, assisted by ten genii. The next principal of the Klan is the Grand Dragon of the Realm, assisted by eight hydras; then there is the Titan of the Dominion, assisted by six furies; and the Grand Cyclops of the Den, assisted by two nighthawks. In 1871, Congress passed the 14th Amendment to the US Constitution. In that same year, President Ulysses S. Grant issued a proclamation calling all illegal organizations to disarm and disband; thereafter hundreds of Klansmen were arrested. By 1915 in Georgia, a preacher, Colonel William Simmons, incorporated a new fraternal Order of the Klan. In 1920 the Order of Klan had expanded rapidly and became active in many states, during the 1930’s the Ku Klux Klan remained active particularly against Trade Union Organizers. It also threatened so-called Blacks, Negroes, and/or Colored People if they tried to vote. In the 1940,’s the Klan joined with Nazi Germany and held large rallies in, NJ and GA., the US then revoked the Klan’s Charter in 1947. After the US civil rights act of 1964, the Klan experienced an increase in membership, reaching an estimated 40,000 by 1965. In 1970, some Klan leaders ran for public offices in the South, amassing sizable numbers for the vote. There are about 15 organizations existing today in the US under the KKK, a former grand wizard of the Klan, David Duke was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 and ran in the gubernatorial election (1991). Albert Pike held the office of Chief Justice of the KKK while he was simultaneously Sovereign Grand Commander of Scottish Rite Masonry in the Southern Jurisdiction, (the KKK was also known as the Invisible Empire of the South). In 1869, Forrest ordered the Empire to disband because of the extreme violence. 1,915 years after the Christian era, is marked as the rebirth of the KKK and by 1920; they controlled some states such as Indiana from the courthouse to the state house. Almost all of the top officials of the revived Klan were also so-called Masons, with 5 million members, also called them selves white Protestants, with several Senators and Governors. By 1944, the KKK collapsed, in a storm of corruption, murder, rape, and torture.
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 02:02:59 +0000
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