White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

The Civil War had a seemingly positive outcome, but it took many brutal battles and inequitable decisions to get there. Therefore, the Civil War was an unjust war. Innocent people were affected negatively by the war. Sherman’s March destroyed innocent Southerner’s land and property, and Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Even though there were many negative effects of the Civil War, slavery was abolished by the end of the war. Firstly, the Civil War was unjust because Sherman’s March to the Sea…

The Odyssey and O Brother where art thou? demonstrates how male roles change with evolving political and social values. The Odyssey utilizes male protagonists to make a commentary traditional values of focalizing a member of the aristocracy position whilst Oh Brother questions the political climate of the Great Depression. Foreground characters used in Homeric poetry are aristocrats, which means the “rule of the best,” which suggests that the Odyssey was created at the end of the Dark Age (c.…

18th Amendment abolished alcohol in 1919. This move was especially popular in the West and the South. Westerners favored prohibition because of its attack on western atrocities like prostitution, crime, corruption, and public drunkenness. Southern whites supported the amendment because it would keep alcohol out of blacks’ hands, and keep them in their place. Despite this support, many citizens opposed prohibition. These adversaries of the amendment knew alcohol as a central part of socializing,…

Freedom Riders In 1961 there were thirteen Freedom Riders male and female, black and white, young and old who pilgrimage off on a racial test. They used two buses for the trip putting into group on the Trailway and the other group on the Greyhound bus. In May 1961 the Freedom Riders left Washington D. C. going to New Orleans and Louisiana. The trip was only for two weeks that would cumulated down to New Orleans, where the real Celebration of the Board of Education decision. Freedom Riders main…

The jove atmosphere of the “Roaring Twenties” first cracked in 1918 when a bout of paranoia, originally provoked by the success of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia in 1917, turned into mass hysteria, as the American people came to believe that a communist takeover was imminent. A grim reminder of years past, the “Red Scare” justified the employment of such repressive laws, and did so at the expense of the American people, who had become accustomed to losing their civil liberties during times…

this article, Wayne K. Durrill, tells of how four freedmen by the names of Jim and Lewis Coppedge who are brothers, Ned Myers who is Coppedge’s step-father, and George Chambers kill James W. Redfearn. Redfearn is the owner of a general store called Whites Store in Anson County North Carolina. It is believed that the freedmen committed crime because the KKK was coming to the store. Testimony was used to convict Lewis and Ned of Murder. This same testimony was used to convict Jim as well, but at a…

According to Freakonomics “the science of economics is primarily a set of tools, as opposed to a subject matter” (Levitt. Pg. 13). The study of economics involves many different aspects such as societal mores, economic incentives, information asymmetry, and conventional wisdom, just to name a few. As time continues on though the study of economics boils down to humans respond to incentives. How and why do humans respond to incentives the way they do? Are these incentives always for the best?…

arrested and later lynched due to an incident that occurred near the grocery store. The headlines described Moss as a “‘turbulent, unruly negro’, one of a ‘nest of vipers’ who had planned a wholesale slaughter of white men and whose execution by a mob had been sharp, swift, and sure” (138). Whites accused Moss and his partners that they had planned for the “Bloody Riot,” thus leading to the killing of Moss, McDowell, and…

The film I have chosen to talk about is titled, “A Time to Kill” and its setting is placed in the rural south. Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L. Jackson) is the father of a little girl who is violently beaten and raped by two white supremacists. Carl, in an effort to get justice for his daughter, contacts a lawyer Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) to see what can be done about this horrible offense. Jake informs Carl that the two offenders might possibly walk away from this incident as free men. In…

Claiborne Paul Ellis[he is a white person],who was one of the Exalted Cyclops of the KKK group in Durham, is probably the most empathetic, and sympathetic, human being in the history of mankind. C.P. Ellis was a former KKK leader in his home city, and the person who influenced him to become a leader for the KKK was his father. The major question was that why is the former leader empathetic towards the very same people that he was going against? The answer is simple, he saw them as a human being…