The KKK was founded after the Civil War, it was founded by six men that were doing midnight pranks. This group evolved into a terrorist organization targeting emancipated slaves. Before the decade was over in which the Klan was created, it was extinguished. It was later started back up again in the 1920s, but this time it was targeting blacks, Jews, Catholics, immigrants, communist, and many other minority groups. (Levitt While WW2 was going on the Klan laid low, but after the war the Klan was stronger than ever. The headquarters of the Klan is in Atlanta, Georgia, where the write Stetson Kennedy lives. Kennedy is dedicated to ending bigority, he decided to go undercover and join the KKK to reveal all of its secrets and possibly destroy it. Kennedy succeeded in his plan, he made his way into their ranks. He learned their secret customs, after this happened the KKK invited him to join their secret police force, the Kavaliers. During the time of Kennedy the Klan was not as violent as it used to be. There was not as many lynchings, but the real power came in the 1940s, their fear was rhetoric. As Kennedy became more apart of the Klan he started to realize that the best and easiest way to take the Klan down was to expose all of their secret information. He would expose it all over the…show more content… Is this discrimination is sincere or just a hoax. In the game The Weakest Link, it answers this question. Women and blacks who are both discriminated against are not discriminated against during this game. In the game both groups were voted off that showed it did not matter their looks, they were only voted off due to their trivia-answering ability. Levitt adds that he thinks the reason the discrimination is not shown is because the feminist movement and the civil rights movement do not want to show people that they are too
