White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Why is discrimination used in day to day life? Why do people want to bring people down by deliberately hurting or disadvantaging someone based on a characteristic they can’t help? Discrimination comes in all shapes and forms; it obvious anything that is an attribute of a group can be used as an excuse to treat them badly. Racism is the discrimination of someone based on their race, language or skin colour. This can be closely linked to xenophobia. This could be the cause of many serious problems…

humans life that live on this planet. Racism is an issue in society that affects all humans who live in it. Racism was introduced to our environment in beliefs not biological. This issue has affected people which have led them to death such as the Ku Klux Klan when black men where lynched for their color, and how black people…

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dedicated to white supremacy. This group carried out their beliefs under the name of the KKK (Ku Klux Klan.) The KKK made people's lives so much more difficult, especially those of African Americans. Though, there was a good amount of people who were white, but also against the group, it sure didn’t stop them. The KKK first originated in the South, in Pulaski Tennessee. It was formed by six men on December 24th, 1865. The men created it for the purpose of the extremist activities of the white…

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corrupt system in the fact that it was all white people in the judicial systems such as in the case of Tom Robinson in the story but as well as the Scottsboro Boys case in the real world. Lynch mobs, which can be seen in the story, were common in the south especially in Alabama. lynch mobs became another worry for African-Americans after their emancipation in the 1860s. The lynch mobs were formed out of the shadows of severe racism and ¨vigilante justice¨ that white southerners saw as something…

Southern whites used lynching to punish African Americans for unjust crimes, scare them from using their freedoms, and to allow the whites to remain in control of the African Americans. Lynching became a popular part of American Culture in the south. Southern whites used lynching because slavery was abolished and whites did not want African Americans to become…

reinforcing racial segregation between 1866 and the 1950s in the South (Packard, 2002). Sothern legislators passed laws that required separation of whites from black in schools and public transportation. This segregation was further extended to cemeteries, parks, restaurants and theatres. All this was in an effort of trying to prevent any contact between whites and blacks as equals. It was famously regarded to as “separate but equal”. It grew to a very large extent that a Swedish reporter…

you will see a pattern of hate against non-whites such as African Americans and immigrants from other countries along with non-Anglicans such as Jews and Catholics. Each of these groups were all hated because they caused a breach in the goal of getting America to be 100% American. People from the 1800s were not very open to accepting other people’s beliefs. The Ku Klux Klan was a hate group that was filled with terrorists. During the time that the Klan was started, their acts were not known as…

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