Founded in 1865, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870 and became a vehicle for white southern resistance to the Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for Black Americans. Its members waged an underground campaign of intimidation and violence directed at white and Black Republican leaders. Though Congress passed legislation designed to curb Klan terrorism, the organization saw its primary goal–the reestablishment of white supremacy–fulfilled through Democratic victories in state legislatures across the South in the 1870s.
After a period of decline, white Protestant nativist groups revived the Klan in the early 20th century, burning crosses and staging rallies, parades and marches denouncing immigrants, Catholics, Jews, African Americans and organized labor. The civil rights movement of the 1960s also saw a surge of Ku Klux Klan activity, including bombings of Black schools and churches and violence against Black and white activists in the South. From 1867 onward, Black participation in public life in the South became one of the most radical aspects of Reconstruction, as Black people won election to southern state governments and even to the U.S. Congress. For its part, the Ku Klux Klan dedicated itself to an underground campaign of violence against Republican leaders and voters (both Black and white) in an effort to reverse the policies of Radical Reconstruction and restore white supremacy in the South. They were joined in this struggle by similar organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia (launched in Louisiana in 1867) and the White Brotherhood.
At least 10 percent of the Black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence during Reconstruction, including seven who were killed. White Republicans (derided as “carpetbaggers” and “scalawags”) and Black institutions such as schools and churches—symbols of Black autonomy—were also targets for Klan attacks. Hope this helps!
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Answer:
Among the options given on the question the correct answer is option A.
A.by attracting conservative Southern voters to the Republican Party
Explanation: Richard Nixon was the 37th president of United States of America. He was elected as the president in 1969 and served until 1973. He was re elected in in 1973 and later in 1974 he was impeached for the Watergate scandal.
However, he initiated a whole new era in the American politics by attracting the conservative Southern voters to the Republican party. Because the southern voters were known as the vote bank of the democratic party for the conservative Southern Democratic leaders who strongly supported the racial segregation laws.
But Richard Nixon initiated a policy which is known as the Southern Strategy in the American politics. They came to a realignment with the southern white leaders who strongly supported the Jim Craw laws and this realignment indicated the silent the support of Republican party to the white supremacy.This fact attracted the voters of the south into the republican party.
