The correct answer is: "to impose white supremacy in the US".
The Ku Klux Klan was a hate group from the United States which defended white supremacy and rejected inmigration flows through violent and terrorist actions (both physical assault and murder) against members of different racial groups and against anyone who tried to impede their activities.
KKK has been active during the different stages: first of all during the late 1860s, during the Reconstruction Era but died out soon in the early 1970s. It emerged again in the 1920s. Its final stage was in the 1950s as a response to the first manifestations of the Civil Rights movement.
The mission of the Ku Klux Klan was to persecute Black, Hispanic, and all foreign communities. The goal was to make the whites of the United States became the only ones who could live freely in this country. This racist philosophy is called white supremacy.
The Ku Klux Klan was born at the end of the American Civil War. It was founded by former Confederate soldiers in Tennessee, in 1865. At the beginning of its history, it was a group of southerners who did not accept the defeat and new laws of the United States concerning the black population. They refused the new rights granted to them and the end of slavery. The members of this terrorist organization had no limit. They killed many blacks as well as politicians who did not agree with their ideas. It was officially banned in 1877, but racist violence continued through other organizations.
The KKK was reborn at the beginning of the 20th century. It was more organized and powerful than before because politicians and religious leaders supported it. It had more than 5 million members in those years. Racist actions against foreigners started again all around the United States, but the group was banned for the second time in 1928.
Subject: History
Chapter: Racial Segregation in the United States
Keywords: the violence of white supremacists, racism in the United States, black people in the United States, the life of black people after the Civil War
