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Klu klux klan founded
White ex confederate soldiers gather and form an organization directed to blacks in attempt to cause violence -
Grandwizard of the Klu Klux Klan
Ex- Confederate and supremacist Nathan Bedford, becomes the first Grandwizard -
Eldon Lee Edwards
Eldon Edward is the Klu KLux Klan wizard from 1950-1960. -
NAACP
Members firebomb home of NAACP Florida executive director harry Tyson Moore and his wife, Harriet. The firebomb killed both. -
The White Knights
A violent group was created within the KKK calleed the White Knights. The White Knights are said to be one of the most violent groups in KKK history. -
Brown v. Board of Education
School desegregation led to a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan. -
Eldon Edwards
Edwards stages one of the largest Klan rallies in years -
KKK members Increase
The Klu Klux Klam had 35,000-50,000 members in the Klan -
Robert Shelton
Robert Shelton is the Grand Wizard of the KKK form 1960- 1987 and he is said to be one on the most notorious. -
KKK bombing
A white man placed a box on the steps of a chiurch of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church. Moments later there was an exposion killing four black girls and injuring 23 others. -
KKK In Mississippi
The Klu Klux Klan Kills Civil Rights ativists Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney. The three civil rights activists were working to register black voters in the state of Mississippi. -
Viola Gregg Liuzzo
the president, Lyndyn Johnson, announced the arrest of four of the klans men for the murder of a white female civil rights worker,Viola Gregg Liuzzo.
