Violence

**Ku Klux Klan**
The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866.Each different clan had there own headquarters although if they were found it would change.Public rallies and protests was there stategy.Founder: Confederate Civil War veterans Captain John C. Lester, Major James R. Crowe, John D. Kennedy, Calvin Jones, Richard R. Reed, Frank O. McCord**.** A witness identified Robert Chambliss, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, as the man who placed the bomb under the steps of the [|Sixteenth Street Baptist Church]. He was arrested and charged with murder and possessing a box of 122 sticks of dynamite without a permit. On 8th October, 1963, Chambliss was found not guilty of murder and received a hundred-dollar fine and a six-month jail sentence for having the dynamite. The Ku Klux Klan had horrible racial problems the first clan had 55,000 members! The second clan had between 3 and 6 million members thats why so many blacks died.The leader was called the Imperial Wizard. White people who had contacts with the blacks feared the KKK.The white hooded KKK burnt churches of the black population, murdered, raped, castrated etc.W.A.S.P. to the KKK ment ** W ** hite ** A ** nglo ** S ** axon ** P ** rotestents.The KKK targeted mostly blacks but Jews were also hated.I really dont think they liked anyone but there clan. [] __ http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/ __



=**Hate Crimes**=

hate crimes are also known as Bias Motivated crimes they usually occur when a person is in a social group. usually
=== defined by racial groups religion ,disibilty, class, age, gender,gender idenity, social status,sexual orrintation, ethnicity,.nationality or political affilation.Hate crime" generally refers to [|criminal acts] that are seen to have been motivated by bias against one or more of the types above, or of their derivatives. .Incidents may involve physical [|assult], damage to property, [|bullying], [|harassment], [|verbal abuse] or [|insults], or offensive graffiti or letters[|hate mail]. ===

Mob Crimes
**Often, the victim of a lynching would be dragged from his or her home; not infrequently, a lynch mob would drag a victim from a jail cell where supposedly he or she was to be awaiting a fair trial.**
 * An African american victim of a 1928 lynching.**
 * Between 1880 and 1930, an esimated 2400**
 * black men, women and children were killed by lyching mobs.**