Civil Rights Case Summary

The source that proved most useful during the research process for this paper was the non-fiction White Terror by Allen W. Trelease. He was a recognized historian and Emeritus Professor in the Department of History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Trelease specialized in southern history especially during the reconstruction and the civil war periods. This source features in this paper heavily, mostly because the chapters follow the KKK from the Klan’s beginnings all the way through the reconstruction period, which is the time period in discussion. In addition, the novel puts an emphasis on the success the Klan had in relation to what they aimed to accomplish with their actions. A limitation of the document would be that many of the Klan’s actions and motives were of a clandestine nature and therefore much of the dating and validity of information is estimated. The novel overcomes this drawback by referencing multiple primary sources such as a Ku Klux warning to Governor Henry Clay Warmouth of Louisiana on page 273.

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Mark Twain once said, “Actions speak louder than words”. Although many hate groups use speech to get their point across, most will rely on inflicting physical punishment to groups of people. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist hate group, has targeted both African Americans, and any Republicans who support African Americans and their rights. According to History channel’s article, Ku Klux Klan, over 400 members of the organization raided a South Carolina county prison to beat and hang eight African American inmates. Many inmates during the time of the Civil Rights Movement were innocent protesters with the aim of equality. Tom Leonard, a writer for Telegraph Media Group, states in his article, Ku Klux Klan: a violent history, that there were multiple accounts in the mid-1900s of KKK members bombing African American property and churches. In the article, Birmingham Church Bombing, we are reminded about the Ku Klux Klan committing the well-known and horrifying Birmingham Church Bombing in the mid-1960s. The only casualties

Their lives were not protected or valued as highly and this mindset resulted in the lynching and burning at the stake of countless blacks. (Document 8) Mobs of whites would violently attack African Americans with little reasoning other than their inherent racism. These attitudes led to the second resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan that had formed during reconstruction. The Declaration of the KKK includes their duty “ to maintain forever the God-given supremacy of the white race”. (Document 6) This belief led to the Klan’s and mobs senseless killings of unknowing African

Many seem to argue that the Civil Rights movement was a peaceful revolution because one of its most influential members, Martin Luther King Jr., was a peaceful man. Those people seem to forget that MLK Jr. was not the key component of this unrest. They seem to forget about the Ku Klux Klan. They seem to forget about the Black Panthers. These groups were violent and lived for the chaos that they insued. The Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, terrorized blacks and supporters in the 60s during a time known as the “Freedom Summer”. The KKK was responsible for the MIBURN where three activists were found 14 feet under and their car burned to a crisp. They were also responsible for running Mrs. Viola Liuzzo and Leroy Morton off the road, causing Mrs. Liuzzo’s death and severely injuring Leroy

White supremacy groups posed a major threat on the blacks free way of life. The Klu Klux Klan, which began in 1865 in Tennessee, murdered many blacks whose only crime was the desire to vote. The Klan would inflict vengeance on colored citizens by breaking into their homes in the dead of night, dragging them out of their beds, torture them in inhuman ways and most instances murder them mainly for their political affiliations. Each member of the Klan must furnish himself with a pistol, gown, and a signal instrument which was part of the Klan’s constitution and bylaws each member abided by.

Equal Employment Opportunity was fabricated in the historic Civil Rights of 1964. This Act was an omnibus bill addressing not only discrimination in service, but also discrimination in voting, public accommodations, and scholarship as well. The regulation was forged in an atmosphere of urgency. There was developing unrest in the country emanating from the powerful and appalling racial discrimination and segregation exposed during the civil rights protests in the 1960’s. Civil rights fought was played out in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama and other southern cities and because of television viewed by America. During the spring of 1963, the universe watched as demonstrators were beaten, attacked by police dogs, sprayed with high pressure water

On December 7, 1956, I was getting on a bus headed towards New York. As I was trying to find a seat, I saw an open seat right in front of the white people section and sat in it. A few moments after I sat down, a few other men got on the bus. After all of them filled the rest of the white seats, one man didn’t have a seat. After the bus driver got up and saw the man standing in the middle of the aisle, he got up and told all of the African-American people in the first row to get up and let this man have a seat. So I slowly got up and moved around the lady that I sat next to. I expected her to get up along with me but she remained still. After I had made it to the back of the bus where all of the other African american people stood, THe bus

Over the years America has grown significantly in many ways. American history is like no other, certainly morally and politically the country has changed their perspectives on numerous topics. Specifically , Americans have had differing opinions on is civil rights. Civil rights are rights that protect our freedom from infringement. From the early European colonization to 1964 when the civil rights act was put into place, blacks or African Americans were considered a minority, thus were not treated like they were equal to white people. The African Americans experienced slavery, segregation, racism, discrimination, and more. Over this time period, many trials occurred and eventually a movement began

The Klan carried out many attacks throughout their active years. At least 10 percent of the black legislators elected during the 1867-1868 constitutional conventions became victims of violence seven violently murdered. (change slide) White Republicans referred to as Scallywags, and black institutions such as schools and churches were also a targets for the Klan's attacks. Local Klan members–often wearing masks and dressed in the organization’s signature long white robes and hoods–usually carried out their attacks at night. In South Carolina, January 1871, 500 masked men attacked the Union county jail and lynched eight African American prisoners. The violence did not commence just throughout the civil rights movement era … (change Slide) The violence continued into the 1980s – four elderly black women were shot but not killed in Tennessee in 1980 by Klansmen who had just taken part in an initiation rally. As a consequence of the extreme violence and oppression inflicted by the KKK In 1870, a federal grand jury determined that the Klan was a "terrorist organization". Hundreds of indictments for crimes of violence and terrorism were issued. Klan members were prosecuted, and many fled from areas that were under federal government jurisdiction. Despite this the 20th century would see two revivals of the KKK: one in response to immigration in the 1910s and ’20s, and another in response to the African-American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s. Unfortunately the Klan remains today (for example this image of a Klansmen in Charlottesville

The organization’s escalation of violence was both fast and intense. Injustices such as discrimination, torture, and murder of minorities became staples of the KKK. Even sympathizers of freedmen were made to be targets of discrimination and acts of violence (Bartoletti Cambell47). Public lynching became very commonplace. In the early history of the KKK, most of these atrocities would be committed at night, but as time progressed, these acts were increasingly committed in broad daylight. One example of this would be the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, located in Birmingham, Alabama. On September 15th, 1963, Robert Chambliss, aided by three other men, placed a bomb under the steps of the church, which exploded, killing four young colored girls and injuring over twenty other people as well. Chambliss was found to be not guilty of murder, but served a jail sentence for possessing over one hundred sticks of dynamite without a permit. However, during another trial in 1977, Chambliss was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Many other black schools and churches were bombed in the 1960’s as well, and white mobs often terrorized the black community. “The clan was a vigilant group.”(Bartoletti47) The violence incited by the KKK knew no bounds, and the media ensured that American society

I remember learning about the civil right movement when I was in middle school, but reading through your slides I learned a lot more. I learned that Malcolm X, one of the civil rights leader was violent with his process. I don't think I was taught in school about the violent leaders. You also talked about Jackie Robinson becoming the first African American to play in the MLB. My presentation related to yours because my presentation was on Jackie Robinson and Josh Gibson. Jackie Robinson was a great help in ending segregation in the 1950's.

Mississippi Burning was loosely based on events surrounding the disappearance of civil rights activists James Chaney, Michael Schwerner, and Andrew Goodman. These activists came to Mississippi in June 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, a joint effort of several civil rights organizations to bring over a thousand black and white activists from the North to register blacks to vote across the state. Several months after they disappeared, the men's bullet-riddled bodies were found buried in an earthen dam. Despite strong evidence against several men suspected of involvement in the activists' deaths, no one had been indicted for their

Dan just woke up from his 2 hour nap. Damn it! He fell asleep while completing his Final Civil Rights project which was due on monday. Surprisingly he didn’t procrastinate as much as usually. He started working on it 3 days ago when it was given to him weeks before. Thankfully he was almost done with it, about 1 more hour of work left.

But it was on of the sheriff’s that was on the kkk and he beat up the black guy and the white guys. Took them out to a rocky road and shot each white guy one time and shot the black guy three times. After that they buried them fourteen feet into the ground in the dam. Then took their car into the swamp and burnt it to the ground. But then the FBI came in and investigated and caught three klansman and waited until they confessed of where the other klansmen were. That what they did and then caught all of the 15 klansman that did the murders. When they went to court they were all sent to jail for murder. The case of this massacre was called Mississippi