The Ku Klux clan is a white supremastist movement that originated in the southern states of america. At times in it’s history the Ku Klux Klan has been associated with extreme violence and other examples of intolerance. The 1920’s saw members of the Ku Klux Klan being involved in extreme racially motivated violence, such as lynchings. <\/strong><\/p>\n There were many Americans who did not like the changes that were taking place in the 1920s. Some of these people wanted to purify the USA and return it to some imaginary American ideal. They formed themselves into two groups. One was called W.A.S.P.s, which stood for White Anglo Saxon Protestant and campaigned legally to stop immigrants coming into the USA who were not white, Protestant or from Western Europe. They were able to successfully reduce immigration into the USA from Eastern Europe and China by getting Congress to pass a series of Quota Laws. The other group was called the Ku Klux Klan who physically tried to get rid of people who they considered to be a threat to the USA.<\/p>\n Membership of the Ku Klux Klan rose to around 5 million during the 1920’s. Joseph Simmons, leader of the Klan, described the organisations views as:<\/p>\n “We exclude Jews because they do not believe in Christian religion. We exclude Catholics because they owe allegiance to an institution that is foreign to the Government of the United States. To assure the supremacy of the white race we believe in the exclusion of the yellow race and the disenfranchisement (Take away the right to vote) of the Negro (Black People). By some scheme of Providence (God) the Negro was created a serf (slave).” J Simmons, 1923.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe Ku Klux Klan<\/h2>\n