en at one point numbered 40,000. In 1857 as a result of the Montgomery Bus boycott, a group of Klan members torched four African American Churches. At one point a count was taken and there had been over one hundred and fifty acts of racial and anti-Semitic acts of violence in the south. The Third Era mainly used their own forms of bombs to destroy residents and churches of their enemies. The Fourth Era overlapped with the ends of the Third Era; David Duke was one of the main leaders. Duke used a sort of Nazi flavor to revamp the KKK, and his best addition to the Klan was his manipulation of the media. Dukes main attacks were at affirmative action, he attracted new youthful members, recruiting from high schools and colleges. The most well known act of terrorism occurred in Greensboro in 1979, where the Communist Workers Party rallied against the Klan, their motto was "Death to the Klan". KKK members and Nazis came together and attacked the marchers and wounded five protestors and killed another nine. Presently the Fifth Era of the KKK is in action, they haven't been as violent as the past four eras, but there are several groups that are growing in numbers. The Ku Klux Klan's actions were very radical. There is one idea that hasn't changed in the past one hundred and fifty years, and that is that the killing of an innocent person is wrong. The KKK killed any black that had too much power or a lot of influence. Prior to the Klan's existence a similar party killed one hundred and sixteen black people and their bodies were thrown in the Tallahatchie River. In one Louisiana parish in 1868, over a two-day period Klansmen killed or wounded two hundred victims. A large pile of twenty-five dead bodies was found half buried in the woods. During 1870 in South Carolina the Klan killed six black people, and whipped another three hundred until they could barely walk. Mass killings like these happened regularly all over the South. The members of the Kl...
