The third Ku Klux Klan was created when local groups wanted to go against the civil rights movement and desegregation in the 1950’s and the 1960’s. In this time the Klan would form alliances with Southern Police Departments or with the Governor’ Office. Many of the Klans’ members were punished for crimes ranging from robbery to murder. The Klan still exists today in many parts of the world. Researchers have guessed that there may be one hundred and fifty Klan Chapters and five thousand members. Today the Klan is seen as a group of terrorists. A law was passed, by the city council, in Charleston, South Carolina labeling the Klan as a terrorist organization in 1999. In 2004, at the University of Louisville, a professor started a campaign to ban the Klan from the campus by trying to label them as terrorist. On July 19, in 2002, in Johnston County, North Carolina, law enforcement arrested Charles Robert Barefoot Jr. Charles who is a local Ku Klux Klan leader was arrested because he was plotting to blow up the sheriff, his office, and the county jail. Law officers say that he has been organizing meeting to plan the attack. At these meeting there was bomb making material, guns, rifles, Uzi, ak-47, and four- thousand five hundred rounds of ammunition. He pleaded guilty in court in June 2003 and received twenty- seven months in prison. Pleading guilty to attempted murder is enough to keep someone behinds bars for a long time. Instead he received twenty-seven months. The Ku Klux Klan is that same as it was long ago. Their motives are that same and their way of life is to. The only difference from todays’ Klan and the old Klan is there’s a lot more laws that are stopping the Klan from harming others. They’re not as public about their activities and their numbers are decreasing as time goes by. But their motives have stayed the same. They don’t like anyone that’s not white and who disagrees with them. The one question I have in mind is, Will the Klan ever become extinct? Hopefully one day the world will spin in a full circle. Racism and discrimination will decrease and eventually become instinct.