IL SR1782

Urges Congress to recognize the Ku Klux Klan as a terrorist organization and pursue dismantling the group with the same effort used against other forms of terrorism

Documents the KKK's history since its 1866 founding of targeting African-Americans through violence, intimidation, and opposition to equal rights policies

Cites specific violent acts including the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers near Meridian, Mississippi and the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four young girls

Notes the KKK's use of tactics including lynching, bombing, assault, assassination, and modern internet recruitment to terrorize communities

Directs delivery of the resolution to the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Senate Majority Leader, and all members of the Illinois Congressional Delegation