A Time to Kill: the Story of Struggle from Racism

The Ku Klux Klan, known as the KKK, has been one of the most feared groups in America since the end of the civil war during post-war reconstruction.. The civil war was not just about the rights of the black man, but it was a very important part. People in the north mostly believed the black person was due the same liberties insured by the U.S. Constitution. The 14th Amendment of the constitution gave equal protection to former slaves. However people in the south saw the black man as inferior and a slave needed to work on the plantation. This led to continued unrest after the war. Some felt the black man and those that supported his cause needed to be stopped. They wanted to control the black population. The Klan also would torture white people who were sympathetic to the blacks and their situation.

According to Marjorie Suchocki, “justice is an expression of love that includes all human beings’ well-being” (“Marjorie”). John Grisham’s film produced in 1989, A Time to Kill, is the story of a black man's struggle for justice for himself and his family after his daughter is brutally raped. The film illustrates how whites, blacks, and the American legal system had a role in the outcome of the case. Justice was served for Carl Lee Hailey because even though he took the law into his own hands, it is a father’s role to protect his daughter.

Rosa Parks is a civil rights activist and is a tragic hero known for her Strength, bravery, wisdom, peace and perseverance taking a major role in the Montgomery bus boycott and standing up against oppression, She and many others stood up for their rights, She refused to surrender her seat on a segregated Montgomery Alabama city bus on the day of December 1, 1955 which began the 381 day long Montgomery Bus Boycott which then helped launch the nation wide efforts to end segregation of public facilities.

The Klu klux klan was the largest terrorist group in American history to murder more than hundreds of thousands of people not only blacks but anyone who was outspoken about their support for civil rights. For example in document A the political cartoon depicts a horse that represents the kkk and two white men who were lynched; one of the men represents a carpetbagger and the other represents scalawags. Carpetbaggers were new people from the north who were working to form new governments and scalawags were white southerners who were supportive of reconstruction. The text states “... another brave, honest Republican citizen has met his fate at the hands of these fiends..” The man was left hanged in a jury room; the kkk would go to extreme measure to make examples out of others to control through fear.

The KKK was an organization that formed around the civil war, whose purpose was to discriminate blacks and to deplete their freedom in horrible ways. The KKK in

The KKK was made up of “first class men”(Colby 513), which showed the amount of money and power the south had. The KKK got away with murder in the south while intimidating the northerners, and people who wanted to end slavery. They uses intimidation to the republicans and supporters to gain political power, as why the south is responsible for the end of

Imagine if you had lived in the 1870’s and you walked out of your house and saw stores on fire and people getting hanged. Well, that’s what the KKK is all about and what African Americans had to deal with everyday, and having to be afraid of not knowing if they were going to die or survive. The KKK is a secret society in the U.S that is built up of white supremacists.

Amanda Knoxx lied, saying that the Congolese owner of a bar where she used to work murdered her roommate. Emmit Till 14, was killed in Mississippi in 1955 after reportedly flirting with a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, 21. He was dragged from his great-uncle’s house and taken to a barn, where he was beaten had one eye gouged out before being shot in the head and thrown into the Tallahatchie River, weighed down by a 70-lbs cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire. Charles Stuart blamed a black man for killing his pregnant wife when in fact he did. Susan Smith’s said that she had been carjacked in South Carolina by a Black man who drove away with her two young sons — ages 3 years old and 14 months — still in the car. She confessed to letting her 1990 Mazda Protegé roll into nearby John D. Long Lake, drowning them inside. I could go on, but that's not why I am

The KKK was a group made to oppose the extension of citizenship and voting rights among former slaves and to end republican party control of the state government. The KKK wanted social control of African Americans, immigrants, and labor unions, and other groups who threatened their privileged position in the American society. The KKK would often label the African Americans as savages

The Ku Klux Klan was a racial hate group in the south that made sure blacks did not get any civil rights. Members in the Ku Klux Klan believed whites were superior to other races. The KKK hated the blacks because they believed slaves, who were the blacks, are to be less than human. Only white Anglo-Saxon Protestants or known as “WASPS” could become members. The members also had to pay monthly fees so they could “adopt a highway” to look good in the eyes of the communities.

The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is still residing in America today. Although America has made large steps towards greater racial freedom, a lot of racism and white supremacy still remain in parts of the nation. In the almost 100 year old picture showing Rank and File Radicalism within the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's, the views and actions taken by the KKK were much different than they are today. But on one sunny Sunday many years ago, members of the Ku Klux Klan dispersed bags of paper candy with handouts telling people to join the KKK and save America as a response to the increased illegal Central American immigrants coming to the U.S. borders. Which raises the question, what is the Ku Klux Klan and what do they believe?

“The only tired I was, was tired of giving in” (Parks). I was tired, tired of being oppressed, and tired of being stepped on by the law, and my fellow people. That was the only tired i felt. The Montgomery Bus protest sparked a fire that would be felt throughout the entire country, and it was the spark that ignited the fire of the civil rights movement that shook the world. The boycott was the first of it, once light was shown on the problem, she began travelling cross country spreading information about civil rights, and sparking more peaceful protest. Rosa Parks was an important figure that changed the direction of the United States of America. She was trying to get home from work that day, but she turned into an icon for the civil rights movement, and shined a light on the unfair treatment of african americans.

The KKK started off harmless, then quickly became involved in the violent struggle of the Reconstruction Era. They believed that blacks were inferior members of society, and were undeserving of citizenship or legal protection. Violence within the KKK was very destructive, and Congress soon responded by passing a series of federal acts to enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The Civil Rights Act of 1871, more formally known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, gave federal officials the power to arrest anyone who sought to deprive citizens of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.

Rosa Parks was the center of one of the greatest civil rights movements in the mid-20th-century. She became an icon due to her calm refusal to give up her seat to a white man, which triggered the Montgomery Bus Boycott beginning in 1955 (Baggett, 2016). Rosa Parks acted with courage and stood up for what she believed in; paving the way for many American citizens to follow in her footsteps - or lack of footsteps. She stayed true to herself and inspired others to take similar courageous actions throughout the civil rights movement in America.

The Ku Klux Klan was a politically and racially motivated group that discouraged and frustrated attempts at racial equality (Bowles 2011). They were against all equality for anyone who supported a Union or was black. They were in control of the Southern states and they ran amuck abusing and murdering anyone they felt would threaten their way of life and the local and state governments sat back and supported their efforts to keep the blacks enslaved at all costs. In and article written by the Harper’s Weekly paper about the atrocities in the South it stated that,