Klansville U.S.A.

The documentary titled, Klansville USA, detailed the uprising of the famous social organization, the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan terrorized African Americans and white sympathizers in order to push their agenda for white's to stay superior and in control.

Bob Jones grew the KKK from a social group with a few members to thousands. He was a high school dropout and was dishonorably discharged from the Navy for not saluting a black officer in which he defended himself by saying, "I will salute that uniform any day but I refuse to salute a nigger." People in society thought of him as white trash and he never admitted to being racist as long as blacks stayed in their place and didn't mingle with white people.

The KKK would go out and terrorize free slaves and would pose as confederate veterans who had come back from the dead and they also spent time throwing people off bridges and hanging people from trees.

In 1915 the film, Birth of a Nation, portrayed Klan violence as necessary to keep blacks from not swaying from the place they were put in and it sparked a revival in the 1920s and their ideology of white supremacy, 100% Americanism, that spread all over the world. In 1925 50,000 KKK members marched in Washington DC and 4 million Americans claimed membership, which lead right into the 1930s when bad press and power struggles ripped apart the KKK.

In 1954, when Brown v. Board of Education voiced it's ruling that schools would become desegregated, members of the KKK came out of the wood work and petitioned the governor of North Carolina to organize in their home state as the United Klans American Corporation because they felt like they were in competition with the NAACP.

The KKK was formed because whites who were poorer than most whites but richer than blacks felt as though they needed to forcefully take power over blacks, in order for them not to threaten their established rights. This led to thousands killed and hundreds of riots because of ignorant, poor white people who felt threatened because of the rising black class.