Tuesday May 11 Warm Up: p 528 political cartoon #1-3 Class: KKK notes – POV rap students chose alone or partner teacher assigned ‘POV’ – rap battle-off

KKK The original Klan was organized in Pulaski, Tenn., on Dec. 24, 1865, by six former Confederate army officers gave the name adapted from the Greek word kuklos ("circle"). The Klan was a secret organization which aimed to suppress the power of blacks and other minorities. took on a more sinister role as the terror arm of the Democratic party in the South. Made up of white men from all classes of southern society, its members disguised themselves, in robes and hoods, intimidating and killing

KKK The Klan's goal :to reestablish white supremacy by overthrowing the Reconstruction governments. Outlawed during Reconstruction, the KKK was reborn in 1915 under the evangelistic direction of William J. Simmons, an Atlanta insurance salesman.

KKK reactivated Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was responsible for some of the violence against African Americans and immigrants in both the S and N Membership was open to: native-born, white Protestant males 16 years of age + blacks, Roman Catholics, and Jews were excluded and were made targets of defamation and persecution by the Klan.

Modern KKK The U.S. Supreme Court ruling, on May 17, 1954, that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, stirred the Klan into new attempts at recruitment and violence but did not bring internal unity or greatly increased membership, power, or respectability in the South. After the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 it experienced a marked increase in membership, reaching an estimated 40,000 in A former grand wizard of the Klan, David Duke (1950- ), was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives in 1989 and ran unsuccessfully in the state's gubernatorial election in 1991.

KKK rap You will be assigned a specific POV to rap (or poem or song) from with partner must both have in NB Must be at least 4 stanzas with 5 lines each incorporate at least 4 new facts you learned about the KKK must be APPROPRIATE (no offensive slang) get into the emotions, why does this person feel this way? extra credit- turn in a ‘music video’ on Monday 5/16 – more well done and creative- the more the extra credit 1.white member of the Republican party (scalawag) 2.Carpetbagger African American during: 3. KKK Act s immigration s Civil Rights 6.Today 7. Harriet Beecher Stowe 8. Frederick Douglass 9.Ulysses S Grant 10.Rodney King