Post-Bellum America
In post-bellum America was a time where people were to live different lives after slaves being released from slavery. Indians, Blacks, and other diversities were treated differently because they were not white and if they were different they did not deserve any recognition or any type of respect. There was a major problem in post-bellum America was that whites were still against blacks and that they don’t deserve freedom. Over time Blacks thought they were finally going to be equal and that they will have respect. Since Blacks were hated that much there was a group called the KKK that were to rid the blacks by murdering blacks. Post-bellum America was supposed to a wonderful place, but instead blacks were still discriminated, treated unequally, and killed off one by one. First, Blacks were treated unequal because in the Mississippi Black Codes there was a white man who had raped a black girl and when it happened, he had gotten a job as a detective, but yet when a black man rapes a white woman he goes to jail but then he is then dragged in the streets where people would start stabbing the Black man while being dragged. Then he the whites took …show more content…
“Organization to protect the southern country from some of the ugliest hazards of a time of revolution” (Hollitz, pg. 11) This was an organization who wanted to get rid of all blacks. The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the murdering Black delegates. “Five Hundred masked Klans-men lynched eight black prisoners” (Hollitz, pg. 19) KKK was a serious problem to the blacks only because now the blacks have to worry about if the KKK will go after them and their family. KKK was a ruthless organization, they believed they were in the right and that they are allowed to act viciously towards blacks. They raped black women and committed arson towards blacks. They would show blacks were there place was in this
In post-bellum America was a time where people were to live different lives after slaves being released from slavery. Indians, Blacks, and other diversities were treated differently because they were not white and if they were different they did not deserve any recognition or any type of respect. There was a major problem in post-bellum America was that whites were still against blacks and that they don’t deserve freedom. Over time Blacks thought they were finally going to be equal and that they will have respect. Since Blacks were hated that much there was a group called the KKK that were to rid the blacks by murdering blacks. Post-bellum America was supposed to a wonderful place, but instead blacks were still discriminated, treated unequally, and killed off one by one. First, Blacks were treated unequal because in the Mississippi Black Codes there was a white man who had raped a black girl and when it happened, he had gotten a job as a detective, but yet when a black man rapes a white woman he goes to jail but then he is then dragged in the streets where people would start stabbing the Black man while being dragged. Then he the whites took …show more content…
“Organization to protect the southern country from some of the ugliest hazards of a time of revolution” (Hollitz, pg. 11) This was an organization who wanted to get rid of all blacks. The Ku Klux Klan was responsible for the murdering Black delegates. “Five Hundred masked Klans-men lynched eight black prisoners” (Hollitz, pg. 19) KKK was a serious problem to the blacks only because now the blacks have to worry about if the KKK will go after them and their family. KKK was a ruthless organization, they believed they were in the right and that they are allowed to act viciously towards blacks. They raped black women and committed arson towards blacks. They would show blacks were there place was in this