Ku Klux Klan or FAQ is a organization American who became known to the whole world mainly for the hatred she showed against African-Americans in the USA, but also for supporting the supremacy of whites over blacks through various radical actions.
The KKK killed black people and burned crosses on their lands to show their hatred towards this race, most of the members being from the rural south of the USA, the area where Tim Cook lived his childhood before moving and to continue his studies at Auburn University.
Born near Robertsdale in Alabama, Tim Cook was exposed to the actions of the KKK on multiple occasions, and in one of the meetings he had the courage to tell the KKK members to stop the action of burning a cross on the property of an African-American family on who knew her.
Tim Cook, then only 12 years old, was riding his bicycle one night near Robertsdale, and when he passed near that family's property he noticed KKK members burning a cross and asked them to stop. what i do.
In the early 1970s, he was riding his new 10-speed bicycle at night along a rural road just outside Robertsdale when he spotted a burning cross. He pedaled closer. He saw Klansmen in white hoods and robes. The cross was on the property of a family he knew was black. It was almost more than he could comprehend. Without thinking, he shouted, "Stop!" The group turned towards the boy. One of them raised his hood. Cook recognized the man as a local deacon at one of the dozen churches in town, but not the one attended by Cook's family. The man warned the boy to keep moving.
Hearing him, one of those present approached him, pulled aside his hood, revealing that he was a deacon of a church in the town of Robertsdale, and asked him to go on, which the young Tim Cook and done, but without forgetting the incident.
Events like this in the rural area of Alabama helped Tim Cook transform into the man he is today, that is, a fighter for human rights and the equality of all people regardless of what they are or what they believe.
