Klansville U.S.A.

In class today we watched a movie on the KKK called Klansville U.S.A. which followed the fall and rise of the KKK throughout history. The film shows the Klan rising again after courts deemed segregated schools unconstitutional, and Bob Jones from North Carolina took over. Jones looked at the Klan as a business, a business to spread a message against black people and in favor of the white folk. In the 1960s North Carolina began becoming the New South, because more and more black people were getting fed up with the unfairness, and they started being heard. Now the white people that didn't agree didn't know where to turn, until Bob Jones and the Klan said they would back them. by 22965 the Klan had grown to around 10,000 under Jones's leadership, he said he would not use violence, he wanted a voting block. Jones bagne conducting street walks, most were peaceful until the summer of 1965, the Klan approached a black neighborhood to walk through and the blacks were ready for a fight this time, luckily it was dispersed. Jones preferred to use intimidation over violence, his main form was cross burning in multiple neighborhoods. After the KKK took the lives of white people that weren't in support of the Klan, president Johnson asked the Klan to break up and go back to civilized society. This didn't stop the Klan's , Dorset, one of the main men in the North Carolina Klan started feeding information to police on the Klan's whereabouts and what their plans were. Main members of the Klan were put on trial and testified against the fifth amendment, which turned a lot of other members away since they looked at the KKK as patriotic, so the only reason to lie is if there was something to hide. Jones was sentenced to a year in federal prison, this caused the North Carolina Klan to fall apart and cause members to see the shame in the Klan and disperse. Jones's Klan was never able to achieve any of its goals for this Klan.