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Black Codes: The Rise And Fall Of The Ku Klux Klan

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Blanche Bruce, Robert DeLarge, Jefferson Long, Joseph Rainey, Benjamin Turner, and Josiah Walls are names of 6 of the 17 African Americans elected into the United States Congress. This rise in freedom led many Africans to believe that they could start new lives, but that wasn’t the case. The plan to free the naturalized colored people and give them immunities failed due to states passing the black codes which limited colored peoples’ immunities. The Ku Klux Klan wreaked havoc as they would torture and kill many colored people. The colored people were once again being discriminated and not given their immunities. During the years of 1865 and 1866, laws called the Black Codes were passed one by one in each state. These laws stated what colored people could and could not do. The Black Codes from Opelousas, Louisiana, state in section 3 that, “No negro …show more content…

General George Thomas said that, “The State of Tennessee was disturbed by strange operations of a mysterious organization known as the “Ku Klux Klan”. This mysterious group of people escalated into a major problem of reconstruction. Many thought this was a way to re-start the revolution. The KKK would kidnap many colored folks and torture them and treat them slaves. They would always hide their identity. In the textbook it states that they wanted to return the country to a democratic rule. If an African American were to attempt to vote for a republican, they would kill the person or lynch him/her. The reports of beatings, whippings, and murders increased greatly. Many attempts were made to stop the KKK, but the KKK’s numbers overpowered the police force. With the death rate increasing government put Georgia back into military control by passing the Georgia Act. This was led by General Alfred Taylor. This finally led to 15th Amendment which gained immunities for African

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