Create a word document and title it "ethnicity in the USA research".
Today you are researching the KKK and the NAACP. Visit these two sites and use these to form your answers to the questions below. Read the document on the KKK and the NAACP at the BBC website (the second link below).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/tch_wjec/usa19101929/1immigration9.shtml
Answer the following:
1. What is the KKK?
2. When and why were they formed?
3. Find 4 facts you consider interesting/worthy of noting.
4. In the 1920s and 1930s were the KKK seen as a fringe, extremist group or a mainstream organisation by white Americans? Support your response with evidence.
5. What was the NAACP and what did they seek to do?
6. Is the NAACP still operating today?
7. In your opinion, which organisation was
the more powerful and why?
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