White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

All children must face the loss of innocence at one point in their lives. Alice Walker’s character Myop from her short story “The Flowers” is no exception. Myop, like most children, passes the threshold from innocence to knowledge when she chooses to embark on her own path and comes across the skeleton of a black sharecropper who had been beaten and hung because of the color of his skin. Through this discovery, she realizes the harsh truth of society. Walker portrays Myop’s loss of innocence…

Groups which supported white supremacy, like the Ku Klux Klan and the Redshirts often terrorized African Americans in order to suppress the rise in power which African Americans found themselves gaining. In The Trouble They Seen: The Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans, Dorothy Sterling shares that “between 1868 and 1871 [Ku Klux] Klansmen killed twenty thousand men, women, and children,” which highlights the true…

by race and it shouldn’t be that way because times are great, however inequity is high between the races. Evans was against immigration as he was part of the Ku Klux Klan and was afraid of other racial nativists. After the Red Scare many rural Americans began to see immigrants as a dangerous threat, so they started to support the Ku Klux Klan. Soon after the Immigration Act of 1924 was passed which limits how many foreigners become citizens. This also proves that social and cultural division was…

the Gilded Age. The Gilded Age continued to operate as a white supremacy despite the passing of 14th amendment in 1868. To Americans of the Gilded Age, all ethnicities are ranked according to “science”, with Anglo-Saxons proudly sitting on top of the pyramid. In this construct, some can elevate to whiteness, others need segregation and still others exclusion. This racial ontology prevailed among whites and non-whites who aspired to become white, successfully fracturing the minority communities…

Members from the Ku Klux Klan broke the windows of his parent’s home hoping to strike fear into his father, Earl Little, who was involved with the Universal Negro Improvement association (UNIA) . This group believed in the advancement of Black Americans and was often targeted by white supremacist groups . Malcolm was born into a home with a strong foundation and a solid belief system. His early views…

is the Ku Klux Klan. It consists of three distinct movements. The first movement was founded in 1865 in Tennessee by six confederate veterans. Klan groups spread throughout the south during the reconstruction era of the United States. Their recruits included a high number of veterans in an effort to restore white supremacy. In 1867 Klan members began to create a hierarchical system to include local chapters. Members started to hide behind robes to avoid prosecution. Due to legal issues, Klan…

jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” Racial profiling is one of the largest issues in our society today. It stems from racism and its effects are felt globally. Since black males possess the greatest probability of being arrested in contrast to white males, one must question if they are legitimately at fault, or if they are being targeted unfairly by law enforcement. African American females, Latinos, Hispanics and Mexicans have also been victims of racial…

new national flag, the Stainless Banner flag. (Coski, John M.)(Confederate Flag History) The Stainless Banner’s flag was from May 1, 1863 to March 4, 1865. The white on the flag represents the “purity of the cause”. At the beginning of the war, the Stainless Banners flag was favorable but then it grew to be criticized for being too white. It was criticized because of “the danger of being mistaken for a flag of truce especially on a naval ship and that it was too easily soiled”. In addition to…

Our country is unique and stands out as to other places. However most of that did not seem to matter because I was bullied for being black in a school with the majority of white people. In high school people would say to me “You only have white friends.. you wish you were white. The students would say to me, “You talk like a white person.” I can now see the connections from racism in the past and present. I hope that one day racism is completely…

endured are something that will hopefully never happen again. To think of the innocent who were lynched, raped, assaulted, and found guilty of crimes that they did not commit could make anyone’s stomach turn. Segregation, Jim Crow laws, and the Ku Klux Klan…