Fighting the Ku Klux Klan: From Civil Rights to Today | FULL DOCUMENTARY

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The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest terrorist group in the United States. This secret society, created in 1865, has survived throughout the decades and has always managed to rise from its ashes. It has been making the news for over 150 years. 150 years of hatred, racism and horror. A cruel history whose demons still haunt America. With the civil rights movement gaining momentum, the Ku Klux Klan once again set out on the march in the Southern United States. Complicitly with local authorities, white supremacists unleashed a wave of hatred in the 1960s: the attack on the church in Birmingham, the assassination of civil rights activists. Their crimes shocked public opinion. Under political pressure, the FBI went on the offensive. The result: in the 1970s, the Klan had only a few thousand members left. A new leader, David Duke, tried for a time to give it a veneer of respectability, but terror was still part of the organization's DNA. Little by little, the Klansmen swapped their hoods for military fatigues and swastika tattoos. Today the ranks of the Klan and other supremacist groups are swelling once again in Donald Trump's America. Documentary: Ku Klux Klan : EP2 An American History (2020) Directed by: David Korn-Brzoza Production: ROCHE Productions #Documentary #FreeDocumentary #FullDocumentary #CivilRights #KKK #AmericanHistory #USHistory #Racism #CivilRightsMovement #HumanRights #SocialJustice #HistoryDocumentary #UnitedStates