Ku Klux Klan: historie, symbolik og vold

Ku Klux Klan started after the civil war between North and South states i America.

When the war was over in 1865 and the south states had lost, General Nathan Bedford Forrest and 5 other officers a clan. They had to find a good name to the clan and came forward to something with a circle, because they had a good friendship.

The first name they came up with was “The knights of Kyklos”. Because Kyklos means circle and symbolise friendship. But instead they change Kyklos to Klux and clan. But they change the C out with the K because it sounded better.

And that is why they are called Ku Klux Klan or KKK

After a couple of years there were 500.000 members in KKK.

They started to bother and scare the black people. But after a while they also started to kill them. The clan was going amok and later on, they began to scare the black people away from the campain and killed black politician.

In 1871 there came a law against all clan terror. But anyway the clan grew to 5 millions members all over the world and KKK had an incomes on 25 millions Dollars.