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Ku Klux Klan

  • Known as the KKK
  • Set up in 1865 after black slaves won their freedom
  • Wanted to stop black Americans gaining equality
  • Mostly operated in Southern states
  • Terrorised black American families by intimidation and extreme violence (lynching)
  • Only WASPs could join
  • Membership was a secret

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Also attacked:

  • Jews
  • Catholics
  • Liberals

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==WASPs== - White Anglo-Saxon Protestants

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