Ku Klux Klan Marching through Downtown Wooster

Ku Klux Klan Marching through Downtown Wooster

Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Racism; White supremacy movements--United States

This image depicts the Ku Klux Klan marching through downtown Wooster. Segregation and overt racism is often thought to be a southern matter throughout the twentieth century, however that is not the case. By the early 1950’s, school segregation was prohibited by law in Ohio. That does not mean that racism and other forms of segregation did not have a large presence in Ohio. Sit-in that were happening in Chicago and Bus Boycotts in Montgomery, Alabama showed that resistance segregation was alive and well. Along side this resistance, were the powers that were attempting to put down these resistances. The Ku Klux Klan would become the largest and most wide spread hate group toward African Americans in the United States.

Use Ohio Social Studies Standard for High School American History 28 (Following World War II, the United States experienced a struggle for racial and gender equality and the extension of civil rights) for integration into classroom.

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Wooster, Ohio; Wayne County, Ohio