What did the KKK do to immigrants in the 1920s?

Question: What did the KKK do to immigrants in the 1920s!?
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The Klu Klux Klan was basically based in the south of America!. Here they targeted those set free after the American Civil War - the African Americans!. The KKK had never considered the former slaves as being free and terrorised Africa American families based in the South!. America experienced great economic prosperity during the 1920's but not much of it filtered to the South!. Racism mixed with anger at their economic plight formed a potent cocktail!.

Many different groups had emigrated to America over the years!. One group - the Blacks - had been brought there against their will and after the success of the northern states during the Civil War and the freeing of the Blacks from slavery in 1865, a sinister group was established which was designed to spread fear throughout the Black population that still lived in the southern states!. This was the KKK!. Only WASP’s could belong to it — White Anglo-Saxon Protestants!. It is a common myth that the KKK targeted only the Blacks - also hated were the Jews, Catholics, liberals etc but most hatred was directed against the poor black families in the south who were very vulnerable to attack!.

A meeting of the KKK in 1922

The leader of the KKK in the 1920’s was a dentist called Hiram Wesley Evans whose name in the KKK was Imperial Wizard!. The KKK were a violent organisation!. The white hooded KKK burnt churches of the black population, murdered, raped, castrated etc and they were rarely caught as most senior law officers in the South were high ranking KKK men or sympathetic with their aims - which was a white protestant south!. Even white people who had contacts with the blacks had reason to fear the KKK!.

The Black Americans tried to fight back using non-violent methods!. The NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People) asked Washington for new laws to help combat the KKK violence but received very little, if any, help!. In the 1920’s Black Americans started to turn to the ‘Back to Africa’ movement which told blacks that they should return to their native America!. This was started by Marcus Garvey but the whole movement faltered when he was arrested for fraud and sent to prison!.

History Learning Site > Modern World History > America 1918 - 1939 > The KKK and racial problems

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!. Which groups did the KKK not like!? In the same document ( The Klan's Fight for Americanism), H!.W!. Evans made it clear whom the KKK did not like and ultimately saw as the enemy:
a) "Mongrelized" liberals - because "Liberalism has come completely under the dominance of weaklings and parasites!." The KKK believed that liberals helped give rise to the Bolshevism by supporting foreigners and immigrants!. (P!.6)
b) Aliens - As described earlier in the manual, aliens were people who owed "allegiance of any nature or degree to any foreign government, nation!." "Alien ideas are just as dangerous to us as the aliens themselves, no matter how plausible such ideas may sound!." The KKK believed that alien ideas did not work for plain people!. Ideas that were perfectly healthy to the alien were poisonous to Americans!. (P!.9) The Klan had sympathy, opportunity and justice for the aliens!. The alien did not choose to be born into that race!. However, the Klan could never let the alien succeed, no matter how accepted he or she became!.
c) Roman Catholics - Evans said in this document that the Klan's issue with the Catholic was not religious but political!. He said the Klan had a problem with Catholics because, in the past, the Roman Church opposed the "Nordic's" struggle for success!. The Klan also remembered religious persecutions imposed by the Catholics!. Evans said that the Roman Catholic Church was also the chief leader of alienism!. The Catholics could never become true Americans because the majority of its leaders were either "foreign born, or of foreign parentage and training!." Roman Catholics could not teach Americanism because they demand supreme loyalty to the church!. In addition, the word Roman is not American in and of itself!. Romans are from Rome, which means that Romans are Italians!. The Klan considered Italians to be a big problem in the world of aliens and immigration!. (PP!. 12-14) The KKK poked fun at the Catholic Church by targeting its leader - The Pope - in "The Pope's Last Call!." This is a poem about the Pope and his phone call to the Devil!. The Pope calls the Devil in a desperate cry for help!. The Catholics are trying to kill all the Protestants and the KKK is stopping them!. The Pope asks the Devil for advice on how to handle them!. The Devil says to the Pope that the KKK is going to make his life a living hell!. The Devil says, "I've been a mean old devil, but not half as mean as you!." He suggests to the Pope that he go down to hell so that the Devil can hand his job over to him!. Then the Devil tells the Pope, "For the boys in white will get you" so he should "Hang up the phone and get your hat and meet me here in hell!." This kind of humor targets the Pope for the past persecutions done by the Catholic Church!.
d) The ***** was "a special duty and problem of the white American!." The Klan believed that every State should make a law against integration and interracial relations!.
e) The Jew was a religious problem for the KKK, not racial!. The Jew has been persecuted throughout history!. The Klan said that this causes the Jew to always be roaming the Earth!. The Jew has no place (or country) to call home because the time can only tell when their persecution begins again!. Therefore, America is only a temporary home for Jews!. Someone who could not be completely committed to America and being an American could not ever become a true American!. All of these beliefs are still enforced in the Ku Klux Klan today as they were in the 1920's!.

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They were really nice to the immigrants!. They greeted them as they got off the boats and tried to get them decent homes and jobs!. They would frequently give free candy to the immigrants!. They were primarily a charitable organization that tried to spread peace, brotherhood, and tolerance!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Depends on where the immigrants were from!. From lets say England, France, Germany or other such countries !.!.!.nothing unless they were Catholic!.!.!.!.most everywhere else!.!.!.!.I would imagine kill them if they could get away with it, and sometimes even if they counldn't!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Tar and feather, lynched, burned at the cross, and lots of other horrible things!.

EDIT: To the idiot below me (It sucks being above an idiot, truse me!)

The depression was in the 30's and the KKK was at its climax in the 20's!. Get your facts straight!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

beated, kidnapped, burned them, lynched them, whipped them, burned their houses and churches, all kinds of horrible thingsWww@QuestionHome@Com

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they were not active at that time!. it was more towards the 50's!. the 20's was the depression!.!.!.get facts straight before trying to ask questionsWww@QuestionHome@Com