FACTS :

• Black Peoples of America - The Ku Klux Klan - A text with pictures
  (historyonthenet.com)
  
  
• KKK held public cross ceremony in Warrenville tonight in South Carolina
  "The group had earlier protested in front of Augusta State University...
  Duwayne Johnson, initiated as the Imperial Wizard of the All American Invisible Knights, said while other Klans represent racism and white supremacy, his Invisible Knights are a new era of Klansmen who stand for heritage. His group is concerned with the Constitutional integrity of the national health care reform and promoting political ideals like keeping illegal immigrants from taking U.S. jobs, he said.
  Johnson said there are at least 13 other Klan groups in the South...
  His Invisible Knights, which has 922 members across nine states, has "a new era of thinking"."
  (chronicle.augusta.com)

  

   

• Keeping cold cases burning - A text + a VIDEO
  

  The man who won't let civil rights-era cases go cold.
  "Newspaper reporter Jerry Mitchell does not give up easily.
  He was working the courtroom beat in the southern city of Jackson, Mississippi when he first saw the film 'Mississippi Burning'.
  It changed his life. The movie was loosely based on the murder of three civil rights workers in the summer of 1964...
  They died at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan."
  (BBC)
  
  

   

• The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's
  A collection of pictures and information of the Klan of the 20's.
  (YouTube)
  
  

   

• Ku Klux Klan (Wikipedia)
  
  

  1 Overview 2 The first Klan 2.1 Creation 2.2 Activities 2.3 Klan salute 2.4 Decline and suppression 3 The second Klan 3.1 Creation 3.2 Activities 3.3 Political influence 3.4 Decline 4 Later Ku Klux Klans 4.1 Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 5 The Ku Klux Klan today 6 Ku Klux Klan vocabulary 7 The Ku Klux Klan in popular culture 8 See also 9 Notes 10 References 11 External links

  Nathan Bedford Forrest, Confederate General; later, first Grand Wizard of the first Klan

  
  
  

• Ku Klux Klan : photos, historique, vidéos , littérature, chansons... (Site Langues de l'Académie de Dijon)
  
  
  
  
  

• The Ku Klux Klan - origin (PBS)
  
  

INTERACTIVE ACTIVITIES :

• Ku Klux Klan Quickquiz - interactive - Answer true or false to the questions.
  (historyonthenet.com)

WEBQUESTS :

• Ku Klux Klan - a webquest - with a PowerPoint Presentation , a worksheet and a video .
  (Ac. Réunion)

INTERACTIVE GAMES :

• Ku Klux Klan Wordsearch - interactive
  (historyonthenet.com)

   

CARTOONS :

• This cartoon by the famous Thomas Nast
  "was published in Harper's Weekly in 1874. It shows how white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan worked to keep freed slaves in politically and economically deprived conditions. Look at the inscriptions at the top of the cartoon.
  It says "The Union As It Was" and "This Is A White Man's Government." The KKK wanted to keep Blacks out of government and prevent them from voting."
  (socialstudieshelp.com)