how did the KKK effect  the american  dream?
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Which American Dream? The KKK helps show quite plainly just how deep certain feelings run in some people. We like to believe that we have moved beyond "race" and have open societies, but KKK, skinheads, and white supremacist still gather and propagate hate. This retards the American Dream only in that not all Americans share the same dream.
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Actually, the Klu Klux Klan name is kinda stupid. They thought that it sounded like greek, which they think sound cool. As a matter of fact, the KKK did all these codes by replacing certain letters with K just to look cool.  You know, like kool. (If you think I am joking, think again.)  Conisder that most members of the KKK in its early days were uneducated farmers, it shouldn't come as a surprise. As to the KKK now, it still exists.  It really depends on who you ask.  They actually have a website and a TV show.  Look at www.kkk.com  The KKK, or what's left of it, is more or less funny than scary.  For starters, their main branch is reduced to selling T-shirts and mugs to get money.  A black man in minnisota a few years ago applied to the KKK and got to be the region's grand dragon (or something like that, which was rather funny because it's the third higest rank in a region KKK organziation. I am sure some racist will do hate crime and pretend that KKK is still big, but the truth is, the people in the current KKK and white supremacy groups  are a bunch of sad losers we can laugh at.
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there will be the worst Loss for KKK becasue all difference race over beat that. Becasue freedom of speech and freedom they have. back 1928  KKK have more power but now days race have more power than white trash KKK. I am white myself I have many different race of family cousins sisters, brothers, you name it.
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KKK are ignorant hatemongers who want to eliminate anyone who isn't like them.\n\nBloods and Crips kill each other.
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If this is a serious question, and not just rhetorical.....\nBecause they have held ALL the power for so long, and while in power misused it so very badly.   They used unethical, immoral and un-Christian ways to oppress the minorities.  That memory, and the memory of the one large all-white "club", the KKK lingers with a stench so bold that no one even wants to bring it up again.\nThe term "all white" brings up connotations of that unfortunate situation.\n\nAnd if you were not aware of it, whites still pretty much hold MOST of the power base, politically and economically.  So long as they do, and probably a while after, this will most likely be the social sentiments.\n\nHowever, in a truly equal society, it should not matter, and the ACLU has even backed the KKK for their right to be heard, as repugnant as the idea must have seemed to them; it is the "right" not the idea they were defending.\n\nI have heard of German, Spanish, Irish and Italian clubs in the college setting, but are usually associated with the language departments/courses.
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INTRODUCTION\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nMartin Luther King, Jr., is best known nationally and internationally for his leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement [1] and his subsequent efforts to promote world peace and economic equality. The Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site, located in the historic east side Atlanta black community where King was reared and to which he later returned in the height of his activism, commemorates King's lifetime achievements. The Site preserves the King Birth Home and the immediate historic black neighborhood where King spent his youth. The larger "Sweet Auburn" community, which served as the economic, cultural, and religious center for Atlanta's segregated black population from 1910 through the 1960s, greatly influenced King both as a youth and as an adult.\n\nOn January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta at 501 Auburn Avenue within a prosperous black commercial and residential district. He lived in this house with his mother, father, grandparents, sister, brother, and an occasional boarder until he was twelve years old. King attended public schools nearby and walked to services at Ebenezer Baptist, where his maternal grandfather and father served as ministers. In 1941, the family moved to another house within the Auburn Avenue community, and King commuted to Atlanta University on the west side to attend high school classes. As an adult, King left Atlanta to attend Crozer Seminary, in Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, and continued his education at Boston University. King led the members of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. while completing his doctorate in theology at Boston University. After serving in Montgomery for six years, King traveled to Atlanta to help organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, and eventually moved to the city in 1960. The dominant force in the SCLC, King also co-pastored at Ebenezer Baptist Church in the Auburn Avenue community with his father.\n\nFew nationally significant civil rights activities occurred under King's mantle in Atlanta. However, King served upon the governing board of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), headquartered in Atlanta, participated in a lunch counter boycott at Rich's department store, a well-known Atlanta commercial establishment, and supported black Atlanta union members in a strike. King's best known and most effective civil protests occurred outside Atlanta, particularly in Alabama, where blacks wielded little economic, social, or political power.\n\nNevertheless, the black commercial and residential district centered around Auburn Avenue and the prominent black religious institutions in the community had a lasting impact on King and other black community leaders. Throughout the South, civil rights activities relied on strong communities and outspoken religious leaders. Auburn Avenue and its surrounding black residential areas developed as a direct result of segregationist policies common throughout nineteenth- and twentieth-century Southern urban centers. Within this milieu of hardship, black economic, cultural, and political institutions waxed, and in some cases, flourished. Auburn Avenue's vitality surpassed that achieved by many southern black communities. This unique community greatly influenced the life path chosen by King, to challenge racism, poverty, and the denial of black civil rights.\n\nAuburn Avenue and its coterminous residential community developed as a stronghold of black Atlanta politics, commerce, spirituality, and Social life. Sweet Auburn described the corridor east of Peachtree to Howell Avenue and north of Auburn to Houston Street. Edgewood Avenue, located just south of Auburn Avenue, developed later predominantly as a white commercial corridor. On both avenues, access to the central business district to the west via
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People are more greedy nowadays, and many have less of a work ethic. The American Dream isn't different, it's the things involved with the American Dream. Back then, the American Dream was too pretty much work hard and earn yourself a good living. Nowadays many people have a less work ethic, and the American Dream isn't too hard to achieve if you have some kind of special talent (Sports, music, etc.) You can also achieve the American Dream nowadays by becoming a good counterfeiter or becoming one of the main men in the drug trade. People have developed less of a work ethic and it shows. Thats how.
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It had restricted membership and operates through a close circle of buddies.\n\nIt was not secret. It just did not advertise publicly.\n\nBy the way, the KKK is still active. Look up http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/klan.htm
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the kkk members. its a huge national, and global, network of sicko's who have the time and money to feed their unfounded hatred.
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It's the name of a fraternal organization that advocate white supremacy, they're against Catholics and Jews, and foreigners.  They promote the use of terror and violence against minorities (most knowingly African Americans) as well as religious groups.  The original Ku Klux Klan was created after the end of the American Civil War. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (circle) with "clan."  \nHope it helped!
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read it\n\n"I Have A Dream" \nby Martin Luther King, Jr,\n---------------------------------------------------\n\nDelivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Source: Martin Luther King, Jr: The Peaceful Warrior, Pocket Books, NY 1968 \n\nFive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. \n\nOne hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. \n\nSo we have come here today to dramatize an appalling condition. In a sense we have come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. \n\nThis note was a promise that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. \n\nSo we have come to cash this check -- a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. \n\nIt would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment and to underestimate the determination of the Negro. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. Those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. \n\nThe whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. \n\nWe must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. we must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force. \n\nThe marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to distrust
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I think Robinson made a huge impact in the way African Americans were viewed at the time.Ther was extreme hatered aimed at this man,and at the time many people still viewed African Americans as ,stupid,backwoods,mean spirited,and generally uncivilized.The way Robinson Carried himself on and off the field,and handled all the hatred and questions with class,without a doubt changed the way some people looked at the race.\nHe was an ambasador of good will for generations to come.
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Yo whats crackalaken?... Good Questions..and being Black I can tell you the Panthers are reverse racism in the worst way. Anyone that listens to Farakhan is not the sharpest tool in the shed. I also found it funny that the ORIGINAL Klan(there a 3 diffent Klan Nations) after the Civil War was created to drive carpetbaggers(YANKEES) from the south and the 2nd coming of the Klan was the one that really started the Hangings and crap..they also hung quite a few whites and had 4 million members in the 30's. Bobby and Huey Long never came close to that with the Panthers. Both Org. now are not really strong, maybe people see that only as ONE can we do anything.
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the economic status of the south allowed for industrial speculators to move in and increase the size of industrial manufacturies. Labor was cheap, people needed to eat. Slavery being abolished also meant that the labor force was decreased (whites now had to work for themselves).\n\nThe market went from agraian (many people producing much food) to industrial (few people roducing most of the nations food.) This meant jobs went from agriculture to industry.
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There are political elememts that benefit from spreading the myth that the American Dream is dead.  There are a lot of people who now believe there is no hope of acheiving their dreams.\n\nThose people are the socialist/democrats/liberals.
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The impact of the 1966 Chicago Freedom Movement on the decade’s civil rights struggles was as significant as any other campaign of that era. By bringing the freedom struggle to Chicago, where the Democratic Party machine was closely linked to the national party and the White House of President Lyndon Johnson, the movement raised the bar and gave the struggle for equality a national focus.\n\nIt was a time when thousands were on the move. Calling for an end to Jim Crow in public accommodations, they boycotted the city bus system in Montgomery, Alabama. They sat in at lunch counters across the South, demanding service.\n\nNational guardsmen and federal troops were protecting children who were breaking down the walls of segregated schools. Black and white teams of youth had gone south to challenge poll taxes and organize voter registration drives. “Whites Only” signs were being torn down.\n\nPeople from all walks of life were getting involved in the struggle to eliminate the legacies of slavery. Although the struggle took on many forms and covered diverse areas of the South, it came to be called simply the “movement.” To say someone or some organization was “part of the movement” was to say it all.\n\nMade up of many diverse groups, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), founded by Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Rev. Ralph Abernathy in the mid-1950s, sparked the imagination of civil rights supporters everywhere.\n\nAs its prestige grew far beyond its numbers, the SCLC and its leaders became the spark plug that ignited mass protests across the South, bringing the demands of the movement to the attention of the nation as scenes of snarling police dogs flashed on screens television.\n\nKing and Abernathy decided to bring the movement “up south” and the search for a place to begin brought them to Chicago. There they found the ingredients they were seeking: a substantial base of support among both white and Black ministers, a base of Black and white activists, steeled in struggles against racist hiring practices, police brutality and racial discrimination in housing and education.\n\nAs important as any other consideration, the struggle for equality enjoyed the support of important sections of organized labor – Region 4 of the United Auto Workers (UAW) and the Packinghouse Union, both led by African Americans.\n\nIn addition, many individual leaders and rank-and-file activists had long been associated with the civil rights movement. SCLC planners noted that Walter Reuther, the UAW president, walked arm in arm with King at the 1963 March on Washington. King and other SCLC leaders saw these as the essential elements of a successful campaign.\n\nThus was born the Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM), with King and Al Raby, a leader of Chicago’s Coordinating Committee of Community Organizations (CCCO), its co-chairs. CFM activities and policies were determined by an committee made up of representatives of the city’s diverse civil rights organizations.\n\nSCLC dispatched field staff to help lay the groundwork. In the spring of 1966, King, his wife and their children moved into an apartment on the west side of Chicago and the campaign of the summer of 1966, with its demand to end slums, began in earnest.\n\nRichard J. Daley, Chicago’s “shoot -to-kill” mayor, made known his displeasure that “outside troublemakers” were coming to “his” city and told all who would listen there were no slums in Chicago. He also declared that he would not meet with King, thus drawing a line in the sand.\n\nFor those who were to lead the summer campaign, these statements were ominous. The nation and the world were to soon learn what they already knew – that the likes of “Bull” Connor, Lester Maddox and George Wallace had their counterparts in the Richard J. Daleys of Chicago and other northern cities.\n\nDuring the summer of 1966 the movement staged a number of marches in white communities protesting housi
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"Better" racists? Hope you lagging English skills. There was nothing good about either of them. I'm a German and I know what I'm talking about. If you mean, which was the bigger organisation, then it was the Nazis. We controlled almost the whole European continent and had big allies. We pretty much scared the living shit out of everybody on this Planet these days. Ask old people. Our enemies where shitting themselves. KKK is not even known that well in Europe and cant compare to the third Reich.