IV. Match each date in the left-hand column with the appropriate event in the right-hand column.

3 March 1865	James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
April 1866	The emergence of the Civil Rights Movement resulted in a revival in Ku Klux Klan organizations
May 1866	Civil suit against the United Klans of America took place
April 1871	The NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organized its Freedom Summer campaign.
November 1922	It was the first time a white man had been executed for a crime against an African American since 1913
1950	Johnson vetoed the Civil Rights Bill that was designed to protect freed slaves from Southern Black Codes.
1964	The Freeman's Bureau was established by Congress.
June 1964	The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee.
February 1987	Congress passed the Ku Klux Act and it became law.
June 1997	Hiram W. Evans became the Klan's Imperial Wizard.

V. State whether the following statements are true or false. Correct the false ones.

1. After the passing of the first Reconstruction Act the South was divided into two military districts, each under a major general.

2. The first branch of the Ku Klux Klan was established in Pulaski, Tennessee, in May, 1866.

3. Most of the leaders were former members of the Radical Republicans and the first Grand Wizard was Nathan Forrest.

4. Klansmen were wearing masks, black cardboard hats and draped in black sheets, tortured and killed black Americans and sympathetic whites.

5. The main objective of white supremacy organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan, the White Brotherhood, the Men of Justice, the Constitutional Union Guards and the Knights of the White Camellia was to stop black people from voting.

7. The Klan has a constitution and bylaws, which provides, among other things, that each member shall furnish himself with a violin, a Ku Klux emblem and a signal instrument.

8. The operations of the Klan are executed in the night and are invariably directed against members of the Republican Party.

9. After the conviction of the Klan leader, James Brown, for second-degree murder, and evidence of corruption by other members such as the governor of Indiana and the mayor of Indianapolis, membership fell to around 10,000.

10. On 17th May, 2013, the FBI announced that the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing had been carried out by the Ku Klux Klan splinter group, the Cahaba Boys.

6. Solve the crossword.

Down:

1) What was established by Congress on 3rd March, 1865?

2) What unofficial name had each member of the society?

3) Name the president who vetoed the attempts by Congress to extend the powers of the Freemen's Bureau.

4) Name the national legislative power with the great number of Radical Republicans.

5) The most terrible act doing by Klansman to black people

8) Method of terrorizing the local black population.

Across:

6) At the 1866 what the first Act passed?

7) Klan leader, second degree murder.

9) What unions were created to protect black groups?

10) The major attribute of Ku Klux Klan society?

VII. Imagine that you are a teacher of History at a British school. What interesting facts about the Ku Klux Klan through 19^th – 21st centuries can you impart to your pupils? Make use of additional sources of information.

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