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The KKK was a fraternity, a group of white males who joined together on the same beliefs of racism and hate towards minorities and different religions. After it became an association of hate it became a 4 million dollar industry in 1924. The only other "cult" that has seen this kind of success in my generation is scientology. The KKK was an organization that was created to try and keep the values that their slave owners ancestors had, they didn't want to accept the fact that minorities finally had rights, the one that bothered them the most was that black people had rights. The KKK didn't just persecute blacks, they attacked hispanics, jews, pretty much anyone who was not white or christian. Although some newspapers tried to fight the KKK and the success they were having during the 1920's, some would say they did more damage then help. They gave the KKK a global audience where they could reach all corners of the country and this helped create a large generation of racists. The way that Streitmatter shows us the readers the KKK is a diffrent what the history books show us. He shows them for what they were which is a business controlled by greedy people who were willing to kill innocent people just so hate and membership fees increased and there pockets kept growing.
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