The Hooded Face of Prejudice in the United States.
Nowadays,the first thing that springs to mind when the KKK is mentioned is the memory of the acts of violence committed against black Americans and against the civil rights movement of the 1960s. However,other facts about the organisation are less well known,such as the fact that it first emerged over a century before the assassination of Martin Luther King (American minister and civil rights activist,1929-1968).imilarly,it is difficult to reconcile the group’s actions with the fact that its origins can be partially traced back to the myth of Southern chivalry and the goal of protecting widows and orphans,and few people realise that the riots of the 1960s,which left such indelible scars on the collective imagination,were far from the most brutal acts of violence perpetrated by the KKK.On the other hand,the