KKK Destructions

During the 1960's, the Civil Rights movement began and a new era of violence for Ku Klux Klan. KKK members were upset that African Americans were getting all these rights, and members had to do something about it. In Mississippi, three civil rights leaders were killed; in Birmingham, Alabama a church was bombed, killing four black girls. President Lyndon B. Johnson used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to further investigate the Ku Klux Klan and ending up sending hundreds of KKK members to prison. Following this, Klan member ship fell to about 5,000 by the early 1970's.

KKK members convinced other people to join by telling them they were going to give them the food, shelter, money and they were all going to be a family. It was basically a cult and a brainwashing technique to enlarge their organization, which they did. They killed hundreds of people in the 60's including Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King.