White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

An Economic Power Slavery was extremely important in order to grow the nation’s economy throughout the nineteenth-century. Slaves in the nineteenth-century would transform from primarily agricultural to a more industrial way of generating their income through cotton textile factories. These factories were the first factories of the industrial system, and were pivotal to changing the way people worked. Despite this, cheap cotton is the reason why these factories were possible. Thus, slavery had…

think. Racism occurs everywhere in politics, schools, at the park, on TV the list can go on forever. I’m mostly focusing on Racism in the United States and how this great nation’s has racism alive in all types of societies. The KKK or the Ku Klux Klan is a white supremacist group notorious for the terrorism, murdering, and hanging of African American people. Most people believe that the KKK is no longer active and hasn 't done anything bad in years. Well, those people are…

same day Josephus Anderson was being charged for murdering a white police officer Birmingham, and the trial was to take place in Mobile. However the jury couldn’t come to a verdict, the United Klans of America could clearly see what they believed was the problem, they more than willingly told of how having African Americans on the jury was obviously keeping the jury from convicting Anderson. “If a black man can get away with killing a white man, we ought to be able to get away with killing a…

location, and gender. One of the earliest signs of racism in America would be slavery in the 1600s. Africans came to America against their will to be used as a source of cheap labor for white farmers and plantation owners. Enslaved blacks were forced to work in dreadful conditions. Blacks lived to serve the white man and had no rights. In this time period, people were given authority and power by the color of their skin. Sadly, some races are always going to be praised or hated. Racism in…

Cassell argues that racism alters the way sentences are dispatched in America. Cassell says, “African American defendants are far more likely to receive the death penalty than are white defendants charged with the same crime” (374). I agree with Cassell the unfairness of how justice is distributed among blacks and whites, because of what I have seen for the past 28 years of my life. Cassell got proof, he says, “while 12 percent of the population is African American, about 43 percent of death row…

brother”, this war destroyed not only the country’s landscape but also the relationships amongst many. However, from the ashes of this destruction rose heroes willing to fight for what they believed in; freedom. One of these heroes was a man named Newt Knight. Newt was a man who defended his beliefs till the very end, this being said he did not support the beliefs of those for whom he had been forced to fight. With his devout beliefs never ceasing, he managed to flee the constraints of a…

remarkably similar to serfdom which had started soon after the Civil War, was spreading like wildfire and pulling many freedmen back into labor, possibly even worse than before because now they had to pay for their own food etc. Groups Like the Ku Klux Klan, started in 1865, began to gain more and more popularity as the military control faded. They used scare tactics like lynchings to keep Freedmen from voting. Other tactics to try and keep Freedmen from the poles were subjecting them to…

cultivate but at extremely low wages and long contracts. This made the freedman’s bureau set up a judicial system that would affect both the whites and the blacks by having local authorities and agents. This protected and allowed the freed workers in the south to not only receive more fair wages from the plantations but to also hear disputes between the whites who were dealing with free blacks for the first time. The planters even had to provide free transportation to and from work so they could…

Knowledge Does Not Equal Wisdom If you believe that to be wise is to know everything, then in your understanding nobody can ever be wise. No one person can know everything there is to know, especially since the world has not yet discovered everything there is to know. Nevertheless, there are people that the world idolizes because they are believed to be wise. People such as Buddha, Confucius, and Gandhi, and Socrates, all of whom were mere men, are treated as gods due to their presumed wisdom.…

Many white southerners thought that privilege only belonged to them so they made it hard for the African Americans. Jim Crow laws compounded the problem by dividing public schools, referred to as “segregation”, and creating autocratic reading tests as described by Charles Dew in his memoir “The making of a racist” (DOC D). White Southerners killed the freed slaves, burned down schools and protested. African Americans…