Daniel Burros was one of the many members interviewed in the investigation of the Ku Klux Klan and like all the others he refused to testify. Burros and the others were scared of what the Klan members would do to him if he incriminated any member in the well known hate group, but unlike the others Burros had a secret he was hiding. New York Times put out the secret that ruin him. Burros was exposed for being born and raised jewish, and the fear of his fellow ‘brothers’ led him to take his life (Howell). Although there are some differences, such as the Ku Klux Klan was more violent, the KKK and the Alt-right movement are similar (Howell). The Alt-Right movement, like the Ku Klux Klan , is a white supremacist group that was founded by a man named Richard Spencer. Their belief was the white culture is being attacked by other races and is taking away their advancement. They, also, believe any other races is a threat to the white culture.This organization is mostly white men who discriminate against other races (Mackinnon-Hoban). The Ku Klux Klan is a well known hate group that was founded in Pulaski, a town …show more content…
Also, their voice diminished because of the horrible and illegal things they did weakened them. The Civil War made the KKK reform once again for around thirty years before they started losing members again. In the 1960s, their voice weakened again because the acts were recognizable as the KKK’s doing. Once they were recognized as the KKK’s work, the members were revealed for what they really were and the House Un-American Activities Committee or the HUAC for short discovered 15,000 klansman in the United States in the 1960s. Now the members of the vicious and heartless Ku Klux Klan that ridiculed African Americans like they were nothing were now the ones being ridiculed, for the horrible crimes they did, by the citizens(Howell). I guess karma does