DLT: I can assess the origins and actions of the “first” Ku
Klux Klan following the Civil War.
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Download this tracking document for note-taking throughout today's look at the KKK. After each round, record: what new information or insights do you gain about the KKK from this reading? Add notes to your tracking document.
Think / Write / Pair / Share
What do you know about the Ku Klux Klan – who were they, what
did they do, why did they exist? Think about anything that you know about them
and write it into the first box.
1) Reading KKK Overview from American Experience
2) Video Overview of the KKK
3) Primary Sources (choose one to read, and if there is time, read as many as you are able in the time given)
Primary Source 1 1872 testimony of Abram Colby, an African American legislator from Georgia,
Primary Source 2 [Severely disabled, Rev. Elias Hill was an influential Baptist minister in the vicinity of Clay Hill, York county, a schoolteacher and president of the local Union League. He gave the following testimony after being whipped by the Klan]:
Primary Source 3 In the excerpt from the 1871 Congressional inquiry below, the Ku Klux Klan attacks a white man who was not necessarily a Republican, but who had simply tried to help his black neighbors.
HOMEWORK: 1 Page writing assignment synthesizing map interactive work due tomorrow (GRADE FOR LT1)
/// More Info: US v. Harris finds KKK Act of 1971 to be Unconstitutional (in 1882)
