1954 newspaper KU KLUX KLAN resurfaces in Civil Rights era JACKSON Mississippi

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1954 newspaper with a long detailed report of the KU KLUX KLAN resurfacing in Civil Rights-era JACKSON Mississippi in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools -
inv # 9X-227
SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Detroit News
(MI) dated Sept 16, 1954.
This newspaper contains prominent front page headings and a long detailed report of
MASSIVE RESISTANCE
(to public school racial integration) in the Southern states as well as the
resurgence of the KU KLUX KLAN in Jackson, Mississippi
(and the rest of the American Southern states)
as a direct result of the May, 1954 "Brown v Board of Education" ruling by the US Supreme Court, outlawing Jim Crow "separate but equal" schools in the Southern US
.
This was the start of the
third, and current, manifestation of the KKK which emerged after 1950, in the form of small, local, unconnected groups that use the KKK name. They focused on opposition to the
Civil Rights Movement
, often using violence and murder to suppress activists.
Massive resistance was a strategy declared by
U.S. Senator
Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
of Virginia along with his brother-in-law as the leader in the Virginia General Assembly, Democrat Delegate James M. Thomson of Alexandria, to unite white politicians and leaders in
Virginia
in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school
desegregation
, particularly after the
Brown v. Board of Education
Supreme Court
decision in 1954.
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or simply "the Klan", is the name of three distinct past and present movements in the
United States
that have advocated extremist
reactionary
currents such as
white supremacy
,
white nationalism
,
anti-immigration
, and, especially in later iterations,
Nordicism
,
anti-Catholicism
, and
antisemitism
, historically expressed through
terrorism
aimed at groups or individuals whom they opposed. All three movements have called for the "purification" of
American society
, and all are considered
right wing extremist
organizations.
The first Klan flourished in the
Southern United States
in the late 1860s, then died out by the early 1870s. It sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the
Reconstruction Era
, especially by using violence against
African American
leaders. With numerous chapters across the South, it was suppressed around 1871, through
federal law enforcement
. Members made their own, often colorful, costumes: robes, masks, and
conical hats
, designed to be terrifying, and to hide their identities.
The second group was founded in 1915, and flourished nationwide in the early and mid-1920s, particularly in urban areas of the Midwest and West. It opposed
Catholics
and
Jews
, especially newer immigrants, and stressed opposition to the Catholic Church. This second organization adopted a standard white costume and used similar code words as the first Klan, while adding
cross burnings
and mass parades.
The third and current manifestation of the KKK emerged after 1950, in the form of small, local, unconnected groups that use the KKK name. They focused on opposition to the
Civil Rights Movement
, often using violence and murder to suppress activists.
It is classified as a
hate group
by the
Anti-Defamation League
and the
Southern Poverty Law Center
. As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League puts total Klan membership nationwide at around 3,000 while the
Southern Poverty Law Cente
r puts it at 6,000 members total.
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