Ku Klux Klan: What Was Their Purpose?
The Ku Klux Klan was created to silence African Americans in society. Using terror as their weapons, the Ku Klux Klan caused widespread fear to circulate across the homes of many African Americans. When it was found by Confederate veterans in 1866, by 1970 the Klan became very popular among white Americans. Its purpose? To resist against any African American affecting society in any way that was important. Although slavery was abolished in 1865, after a bloody civil war that took the lives of many Americans (both black and white) the Ku Klux Klan wanted whites to remain superior in society. However free from the chain and whip African Americans in the South were, the Ku Klux Klan were responsible for enforcing the Jim Crow Laws. By doing this, they let African Americans know that there was no longer a slave class in American society, but that African Americans would remain at the bottom of society nevertheless.