White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

create their own community organizations and social life. The Radical Republicans followed southern society model by granting freed slaves full citizenship rights. They hoped to replace the white by small farmers together with wage-earning and new generation of middle-class Republicans with both black and white (Shi & Tindall, 2016, p.583). The Freedmen’s Bureau founded in 1865 in the…

not indicate racism as a whole has stopped. Racism is the belief that one race in particular is more superior than another race simply because of their complexion. This type of racism dates back to the early 1920’s. This is the era when the Ku Klux Klan also known as the KKK was formed. Their intention is to stop minorities from migrating to their land. Although the KKK, was formed in 1869, their excessive violence didn’t start to worsen until the 1910’s to the…

in the poorest areas with the worst facilities.” Although slavery was outlawed through our nation after the civil war there was not many benefits for the colored people of America. Through protests there were segregation laws passed for blacks and whites to be separated. The blacks wanted equal rights and opportunities, but they struggled due to the fact that there were that wanted things the way they were before the war. Clayborne Carson a news writer for Encyclopaedia Britannica wrote…

John C. Rodrigue’s book Reconstruction in the Cane Fields details the change from slavery to free labor in Louisiana over the years prior to the Civil War to the Reconstruction. Specifically focusing on the crop sugar, Rodrigue conveys the message that sugar growing was significantly different from that of cotton and sharecropping. Following the Civil War, the south changed notably in terms of economics, and Rodrigue details this by examining the relationship between Louisiana’s slaves and…

life-changing movements in our history; the Civil Rights movement, where integration and segregation were equally important to both White Americans and African-Americans, Sons of Mississippi shines a light on an era thick with…

Summer stood out, she compared what was happening in Mississippi to what had happened just a few decades prior in Europe under Hitler’s rule. She did not want to say she did nothing (Watson, 131). Motivation also came in the form of hate from the whites in Mississippi, if they were reacting in such a volatile way that meant they had to be doing something right for those oppressed. Volunteers looked forward to the day that MLK had spoken in his “I Have a Dream” speech, and when President Lyndon…

more to life. The subplot regarding Terry Lee Jr.’s need for revenge is also a plotline that has very strong potential, but could be more developed. He has a strong motivation to want revenge for the murder of Garrett. He plans to get closer to the Klan. There’s a big opportunity to show him trying to get closer, and almost getting caught spying on them. Or maybe he actually tries to kill Mosgrove and his plan fails. Currently, it may not be clear to the audience why Terry pushes Sonny out of…

with the things she’s done for white people. In Witness, Leanora saved little Esther, who’s a white, Jewish, girl, from getting hit by a train and Merlin was there to witness it, “But the colored girl, I never saw anyone move so fast. She ran li ke a deer…I’m not saying she did anything I couldn’t have done...something kept me in my place watching that colored girl run” (Witness page 76). Leanora, a young black girl, did everything she could to save a Jewish, white girl (Esther) from getting hit…

The Reconstruction was the period of time, after the Civil War, that attempted to reunite the Confederacy back into the Union under its new laws. During this time, tensions between black slaves and white Southerners were severely heightened due to the change in order and social standards. In the essay “An Insurrection That Never Happened: The ‘Christmas Riots’ of 1865,” the author, Stephen Nissenbaum, highlights a different perspective about the Reconstruction Era. He argues that the events that…

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth was one of the most impactful moments in American history. Booth was the last person people would have suspected because he was a famous, handsome, and well-loved actor. However, on April 15, 1865, America was forever changed. Lincoln’s plans for Reconstruction and peace following the Civil War were destroyed, leaving the racist and oppressive President Andrew Johnson to take over. Booth’s actions had cultural, historical,…