Levitt and Dubner show how differences in information allow for power shifts. The mid-20th century KKK downfall is portrayed as information-caused, with Stenson Kennedy and John Brown's revealing of klan practices through radio leading to a decline in clan membership and action. Real-estate agents sell the houses of others for cheaper than possible in comparison to their own, as a small increase in commission is not a sufficient tradeoff for time spent. Life insurance policies had a decrease in average cost during the rise of the internet, as people gained the information to compare different policies. The authors then note how information usage can be found in more subtle forms through appearance, noting how people manipulate information for their advantage: people aim not to seem bigoted on the game show Weakest Link, and dating website users lie about themselves and their race preferences.…
The Ku Klux Klan started in the Pulaski, Tennessee, which is in the south of the United States during the year of 1865. The majority people who became part of the Klan were white people from the south. The KKK was regarding white people that wanted to have white sovereignty. According to Fryer et al. (2012), the Klan “is the most prominent hate-based organization in American history.”…
The Horrors of the Ku Klux Klan during the Reconstruction Era During the Reconstruction era, politics was a catalyst for widespread racism and hatred that former slaves experienced throughout the South. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), founded by a Confederate general in 1866, became known as the “invisible empire of the South” in which members represented the ghosts of the Confederate dead returning to terrorize, suppress, and victimize African Americans and Radical Republicans (white reformers) (Gale Encyclopedia of American Law, 2011). From 1868 through the early 1870s the Ku Klux Klan functioned as a loosely organized group of political and social terrorists. The Klan 's goals included the political defeat of the Republican Party and the maintenance…
Paige Montanaro Mr. Loggie US History II CP- Research Paper 2 March 2016 The Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan Pulaski, Tennessee, in May of 1866, one of the most ghastly gangs were composed. This gang was called the KKK. The name KKK stands for Ku Klux Klan which comes from the Greek word “kuklos”, which means, “ring” or “circle”; and the word Klan, which means, “family” (historystudycenter).…
America is no stranger to racial prejudice. Ever since the end of the Civil War in the spring of 1865, the U.S. has always had the trouble to fully cope with the mixing of different races. For over more than a century had whites proclaimed themselves as the “Superior” race. On December 24, 1865, a group of six veterans of the confederate army founded The Ku Klux Klan. A secret society based on the ideals of white supremacy.…
In the southern states where the Ku Klux Klan prevailed, violence against African Americans was not just accepted, but encouraged. Fueled by the anger of losing the civil war, a sense of American patriotism and a shared hatred for African Americans, the Ku Klux Klan committed countless violent crimes against African Americans and their white supporters, aiming at the undermining the Reconstruction policies and restore white supremacy. The Klan slogan: "Native, white, Protestant supremacy" shows that racial integrity is intertwined with moral judgment. For a Klansman, white race must be supreme, but Protestant supremacy, American supremacy are also central. The idea that racial discrimination was inseparable from the loyalty to confederate states, the agenda to regain political power and moral obligations increase the public sentiment for the Ku Klux Klan, which was depicted in Gone with the…
The KKK, known as the Ku Klux Klan. Founded officially on the 24th December 1865, one of Americas most feared groups. The Klan successfully achieved a huge membership and exceeded 4 million people. Only having eyes for one culture, being purely racist with no room for equality. The Ku Klux Klan fought to oppose the rights of the African Americans, with the main focus in the civil rights era where it was a major problem.…
The history of violence against African Americans in the South is long, tragic and varied. While this history is made up of many different forms of extra judiciary violence, I would argue that off these acts the lynchings carried out during Jim Crow were some of the most heinous and politically impactful. Seeing brutal images of a town gathered around a hung body provide those studying the political history of the American South with a vivid depiction of what systematic disenfranchisement really meant. These acts of group violence were carried out to maintain the political system of white supremacy. The two states with the highest rates of lynching per capita during the Jim Crow era are Mississippi and Arkansas.…
The “Chicago Race Riot of 1919” was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3, 1919. The “Chicago Race Riot” was not the result of one incident alone they were the results of several factors. These factors, including the economic, the social and political differences between blacks and whites, and the post-war atmosphere of a society and the thinking of different race relations in1919 combined to make Chicago one of the prime targets for this event. Although the riots were noted as a catalyst for several short-term solutions to the racial tensions, these riots did little to improve race relations between blacks and whites in the long run. Through my readings I understand that it took many years before the nation truly addressed the underlying conflicts that sparked the riot of 1919.…
Paper 6 In his book The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, author Khalil Gibran Muhammad works to answer a series of questions surrounding the “statistical link between blackness and criminality” (1), focusing on the core historical actors and the circumstances that were constructed to allow for the current reality that while African-Americans make up 12 percent of the general population, they make up 30 percent of the prison population (4). The issue becomes less about whether or not the committed crimes are real, but more about how the concept of Blackness historically became intrinsically linked with criminal behavior– so much so that criminality is undeniably linked with the image of the Black…
The novel to Kill a Mockingbird is written by Harper Lee. It is set in the 1930s, in this time period the area had economical, racisim, and sexisim issues. This book was published in 1960, it is still read in taught across the nation. Students are able to make some modern connections to this novel and realize how the 1930s affect us now. The book is set to 1930s, in the 1930s racism was accepted by most of the white community.…
Throughout history, racial violence has been a vital instrument in upholding white supremacy. Oftentimes, torturers use brutal, humiliating tactics to instill a sense of fear and cowardice within the abused. After the civil war and the emancipation of the slaves, the Reconstruction period brought on intense periods of racial violence due to controversial ideas about the authentic meaning of freedom. Controlled by fear, white men utilized violence to maintain their supremacy above African American men in post-Reconstruction South.…
Historian Kelly J. Baker argues that the second incarnation of the KKK during the 1920s was transformed and dressed in Christian virtue and metaphor where Protestantism served as a key component of the KKK’s mission. The ideology of Protestantism was interwoven with Americanism because…
The Civil Rights Movement was one of the most progressive times for equality that not just America had ever witnessed, but the world. However this period also brought forth some of the darkest acts in history and two organisations, out of many against racial justice, will be analysed. These two groups are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and the White Citizens Council (WCC). Two strategies the KKK used were lynching and supporting the prohibition of alcohol while the WCC used propaganda and intimidation. These strategies will be discussed as well as the extent of their success.…
The Klan promoted white superiority and patriotism (Pbs.org). The Ku Klux Klan worked to keep African Americans and “inferior” people in subjection. In order to do so, the Klan would harass inferior peoples, such as African Americans, by raping and beating them. Doctorow alludes to the Ku Klux Klan in Ragtime because white men based on him being African American harass Coalhouse. The firemen had no reason to vandalize Coalhouse’s property; however, they did so because they felt like Coalhouse was inferior to them, which gave them justification to target him.…