100,000.The Ku Klux Klan was larger then any political party. They got their way with everything. They thought they were right about everything. They thought they had the right religion, education, and also the right skin color. They had this mind set because they were involved in everything; they had their hands within the system. They thought white was right. The reason for this type of mindset was the fact that they were the one in control. They were running everything in site. So anything that was not white was threatened or destroyed. If you did not follow the law you had to pay the price. First they would .
Give a warning by burning crosses in front of inferior people" .
Houses. The visible cross burnings, terrorist activities, beatings, .
Murders, and vigilante lynching increased by the hundreds. Lynching was the most popular. Sometimes they would take pictures and have showcases of lynching. Many black people lost their lives. And it was not only black people who the KKK lynched. They also took the lives of other races, religions, and those who supported desegregation. The inferior groups did not have a say about segregation. The black community did not agree with it at all. They could not say much or fight back because they knew they would be putting their lives in danger. As blacks struggled to defend themselves, they learned that sheriffs and law enforcement officials, mayors, governors, the FBI, the federal government, the attorney general of the United States, and even the president participated in one way or another in the maintenance of a system of segregation that declared black people inferior and denied them equal .
Access to the labor market and to educational opportunity Edgar .
The black groups saw that the Society that was supposed to help them was against them. The dominant Group used the law and other forces to keep the subordinate groups down. At times the black community could not do anything about it.
