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Please don't. I think we can all agree that even if those strong men of the KKK hated Catholics and Jews they held a far stronger, more aggressive. more passionate and more deadly hatred for blacks. A Catholic might not get invited to the picnic or a Jew to the dance but I doubt they had much to fear bodily, certainly not anything along the lines of the atrocities committed against blacks (of which there is substantial photographic evidence).
A. 2 events set stage:
1. returning white WWI soldiers compete with blacks for jobs
a.Blacks enter northern cities during war to replace whites in industry
2.massive immigration (10 million +) from eastern Europe 1900-1924
B.Not restricted to south, but spreads to northern cities like Chicago
C.Violent tactics: tar and feather lynching, use of acid to brand “KKK” into foreheads
D. Targets: blacks, Jews, Catholics, Mexicans; also white Christian women sympathizers
E.Lynching 1882-1927: over 3500 blacks and 1400 whites
While we all know that blacks were lynched during this time period..they also lynched white people...although it doesn't go into description on what religion they were or whether it was because they were foreigners..the fact remains that the Klan didn't just lynch blacks.