The five most revolutionary changes that took place between 1865 and 1920 are: The women’s suffrage, African-Americans gaining civil liberties, mass immigration, progressivism, and World War I. The most revolutionary of these being African-Americans gaining civil liberties. Others may disagree, by saying that women’s suffrage or World War I was more important and/or revolutionary, but separating an entire ethnic group and treating as anything less than human beings is despicable, and changing such ways is one of the most important things that can happen. If we as a society truly want to move forward, first we must acknowledge that no other human being is lesser or greater than the one staring back in the mirror: we must develop a respect
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The Ku Klux Klan is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist currents such as: white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration. Historically the KKK used terrorism, both physical assault and murder, against groups or individuals who they opposed. Sometimes referring to certain situations as “Lynchings.” If people have such a large problem with an ethnic group that they would go to these lengths, does the government not need to take action against such absurd groups? Apparently if certain ethnic groups gain civil liberties, other groups organize to fight against them because they cannot handle being …show more content…
Enforced after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in action until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former confederate states, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. Segregation mainly applied to the Southern states, while Northern segregation showed patterns of housing segregation, bank lending practices, and job discrimination. The legal, social, and political status of the African-American population reached an extreme low. During the 1890s is when “Lynching” came into being. Lynching was “(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.” (Dictionary.com,2017) The frequency of lynchings and what sparked them varied from state to state as functions of local race relations. Lynching was higher in the context of worsening economic conditions for poor rural whites in heavily African-American counties, especially the low price of cotton in the 1890s. Ida B. Wells used her newspaper in Tennessee to attack lynchings. She was fearful for her life after writing such articles so she fled to the more
The Ku Klux Klan is the name of three distinct movements in the United States that have advocated extremist currents such as: white supremacy, white nationalism, anti-immigration. Historically the KKK used terrorism, both physical assault and murder, against groups or individuals who they opposed. Sometimes referring to certain situations as “Lynchings.” If people have such a large problem with an ethnic group that they would go to these lengths, does the government not need to take action against such absurd groups? Apparently if certain ethnic groups gain civil liberties, other groups organize to fight against them because they cannot handle being …show more content…
Enforced after the Reconstruction period, these laws continued in action until 1965. They mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the states of the former confederate states, starting in 1890 with a "separate but equal" status for African Americans. Facilities for African Americans were consistently inferior and underfunded compared to those available to European Americans; sometimes they did not exist at all. This body of law institutionalized a number of economic, educational, and social disadvantages. Segregation mainly applied to the Southern states, while Northern segregation showed patterns of housing segregation, bank lending practices, and job discrimination. The legal, social, and political status of the African-American population reached an extreme low. During the 1890s is when “Lynching” came into being. Lynching was “(of a mob) kill (someone), especially by hanging, for an alleged offense with or without a legal trial.” (Dictionary.com,2017) The frequency of lynchings and what sparked them varied from state to state as functions of local race relations. Lynching was higher in the context of worsening economic conditions for poor rural whites in heavily African-American counties, especially the low price of cotton in the 1890s. Ida B. Wells used her newspaper in Tennessee to attack lynchings. She was fearful for her life after writing such articles so she fled to the more