White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Elizabeth Musico Mr. Phillip Jones American History 201 29 November 2016 The Reconstruction Era The reconstruction period, from 1865 to 1877, occurred right after the Civil War had ended and it was to rebuild, or remodel, the United States in hopes to become a much improved country. Although the military conflict had ended, reconstruction was in many ways still a war. This main struggle was opposed by radical northerners who desired to discipline the south and southerners who, to a great extent…

After the Civil War, white supremacy was a guiding principle which gained much popularity through former slave-owners, the Klu Klux Klan, and the government's regulation of Blacks, Chinese immigrants, Native American Indians, and the Philippines. White supremacy is imbedded in American history as a historical phenomenon because of the repetition of whites craving power. White people of the past have thought that they are the only race that is capable of running the world and they have gone to…

Cultural Context: Big Black Good Man “Olaf lost control of his reflexes of his body and he felt a hot stickiness flooding his underwear”(Wright 188). Richard Wright’s “Big Black Good Man” engulfs the reader’s attention and mind through the usage of strong dialogue between characters and the involvement of a descriptive narrative. The over-exaggerated, dramatic description that Olaf has describing Jim gave a realistic sense of the dehumanizing of another character. The author wrote this story…

nullification, one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers” (King, 1963). Martin Luther King Jr's “I Have a Dream” speech has had a significant impact on the Civil Rights Movement and a continuing effect on American society because it was instrumental in the joining of Blacks and Whites and the Wealthy and the Poor, all advocating for the same goal-- equal rights for all.…

Why was there so much intolerance in the USA in the years 1919 – 1930? After the war the nations had been left suffering in high debt and poverty. However after a short post war depression the American economy started to grow rapidly in the 1920s. Americans were the richest people in the world and the standard of living in USA…

live in the South.(Phil Roden) In 1876, another interesting thing happened, it was the 100th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence! (Phil Roden) America was so excited for this anniversary. The South killed reconstruction because of the Ku Klux Klan( KKK), racism,and lawlessness/fear. Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden ran against each other in the election of 1876 (Phil Roden). Hayes is republican and Tilden is democratic. Reconstruction is the effort…

In the words of Robert F. Kennedy, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lots of other, or strikes out against injustice, he sound out a tiny ripple of hope.” Both Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X sent hope to African-Americans throughout America for racial equality. Although both Civil Rights Leaders wanted to achieve racial equality in the United States, they had two very different approaches on how to do it. Dr. King’s message and tone in his “I Have a Dream”…

the Ku Klux Klan (KKK or Klan) who still exists today. The Ku Klux Klan is an organization of institutionalized race hatred and people who commit violent racist crimes (“Ku Klux Klan”). A former Methodist preacher William J. Simmons founded the new Ku Klux Klan in 1915 in Atlanta, Georgia (“The Ku Klux Klan Founded”). The organization began just a few days after slavery was outlawed in America. In 1915 a new version of the society was formed by another group of white southerners (Kish). The Ku…

Hate groups, and white supremacists such as the KKK feel right at home marching the confederate flag around, or holding up offensive “white power signs.” “Nine Hundred and seventeen hate groups are currently operating in the U.S.”, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center(SPLC). 100 of the 917 hate groups belong to White nationalists, 130 belong to the Ku Klux Klan, 43 are Neo-Confederates, 78 are racist skinheads, and 99 are neo-Nazi’s(Hate…

year span is called Reconstruction, in which was a failed attempt: federal soldiers in the South proclaimed that all-white governments would rise, the KKK in the South was killing African Americans (Document A), and lastly, the South caused the North to lose sympathy towards blacks. The South killed Reconstruction. Southern states began to elect their representatives based on a whites only rule. By 1876 only three southern states remained with Reconstruction efforts. The South bribed blacks to…