Racism And The Ku Klux Klan

The goal of this investigation is to delve into the question of: to what extent was the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s a reflection of societal change? In order to assess this question from multiple perspectives on the topic, research is needed to further look into the Klan’s motives both prior to their revival as well as after. Events in the 1870s, when the Klan ended, as well as events in the 1920s, when the klan was reborn, will be considered in this investigation in order to make connections between the KKK and why their revival in the 1920s reflected societal change. Among these events include the end of Reconstruction, the Progressive Era, increase of immigration to the United States, as well as the “red scare” of communism.

Her husband Albertus Bethune did not agree with her dreams and left her to return back to N.C. and they never got back together again. On October 3rd, 1904 Bethune opened the doors of the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute for Negro Girls. Her rent was 11 dollars a month and she would charge the young ladies fifty cents a week for tuition. The local black community

Because there was dismal, at best, private child welfare services, and no governmental services, orphaned, impoverished and abused black children were often incarcerated, even when they had committed no crime (Peebles-Wilkins, 1995). As a way to raise funds and garner support for her endeavors, Barrett founded the Virginia State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs in 1908. With money and assistance from her club-mates, Barrett founded the Virginia Industrial School for Colored Girls and was its superintendent until her retirement in 1941. The school gave the girls an opportunity to learn the necessary domestic and social skills to live successfully in the community (Peebles-Wilkins,

In chapter fifteen the section titled "The Ku Klux Klan and Reconstruction Violence" stood out the most to me. This is because the Ku Klux Klan was such a violent group that should have been stopped immediately, but the group still exists today in a less severe manner due to a more developed government. At the end of 1865, the Ku Klux Klan was organized in the city of Pulaski, Tennessee. Their essential task was to prevent African Americans from playing a political or economic role in society. In fact, the group was even said to be "purely defensive, and for the protection of the white race" (page 529). They group, very popular in the South, even targeted caucasian Republicans due to their beliefs in interracial democracy. In order to destroy

She was the first southern black female elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first African American woman to deliver a keynote address at a Democratic National Convention. She originally wanted to attend the University of Texas but since it was so segregated she don’t not get admitted and chose Texas Southern University, majoring in political science and history.

lived in Eatonville,Florida which had a small black community that shapes both her life and

During the Reconstruction Era, Congress passed many laws to provide equal rights to people of color. But at the local level, specifically in the South, many Democrats took the law into their own hands. They supported the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) hoping to restore the pre-Civil War social hierarchy. The texts in Going to the Source illustrate two groups of individuals who opposed the KKK. In testimonies given by white witnesses, Republicans from the North felt the KKK posed a political and social danger in the South, but did not feel intimidated. The testimonies given by black witnesses were people who had experience of the Klan’s violence, and felt their lives were threatened. The Klan’s attacks on whites were more inclined towards social harassment, while their attacks on blacks, which consisted of voting intimidation and night rides, were violent and abusive because the KKK’s main goal was white supremacy.

Frustrated confederate soldiers made their way back home after losing the war that they had been fighting for four years. These men formed vigilante groups, attacking black people. While soldiers did this, wealthier men who had avoided fighting in the war formed agricultural and police clubs for the same purpose; both groups soon took shape and evolved into one large group, known as the Ku Klux Klan and Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest became the first leader, known as the Grand Wizard. The name Ku Klux Klan is derived from the Greek word, Kyklos, meaning circle. The Ku Klux Klan, often shortened to the KKK, was founded in Tennessee in 1866 and grew to be one of the most feared terrorist groups in the United States, before dying off in 1869, but later being revived in 1915 (History.com Staff). The Ku Klux Klan negatively impacted the Reconstruction period through terror, intimidating Republican voters, and killing Republican officials.

The Ku Klux Klan had three eras, an era ends when the Ku Klux Klan movement dies out or they loss the need for it. Each era may have its own intentions or what their main goal is, but white supremacy is still their goal just trying to accomplish it in different ways, while also opposing thing that may go against their moral code, like gay marriage. The Ku Klux Klan is an origination focused on having white supremacy, it has existed for many years and has had three eras, it is most known for its act violent acts of terrorism.

Ms. Crandall opened one of the first schools for African American girls in 1933 after admitting an African American female into the private academy and refusing to expel her upon the white students’ parent’s outrage. The townspeople were hostile towards Ms. Crandall, but she refused to close the school for African American students despite being scorned and harassed

The Ku Klux Klan was known as the biggest hate group in American History, and they are responsible for thousands of innocent blacks’ deaths. The Ku Klux Klan made it very hard for the blacks, Catholics, Jews, immigrants, and homosexuals to live a normal life. The Klan made them live in fear.

Yes: Shawn Lay rejects the view of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a radical fringe group comprised of marginal men and instead characterizes the KKK of the 1920s as a mainstream, grassroots organization that promoted traditional values of law, order, and social morality that appealed to Americans across the nation.

Topic: In 1866, the Ku Klux Klan was founded by many former confederate veterans in retaliation to their current Republican Party’s Reconstruction-era policies aimed at establishing political and economic equality for blacks. The Reconstruction era sparked by President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation clearly defined that the days of white superiority were in dissolution. Through a willful ignorance and an insecurity of what might postlude the civil rights movement, the KKK rose, using terror in pursuit of their white supremacist agenda. Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Lieutenant general in the Civil war, became the KKK's first Grand Wizard. Now with a steady leader the klan became a persistent political party aimed at dismantling the increasingly

The KKK is a group against blacks, Catholics, and Jews. The name KKK comes from Kuklos which is the greek word for circle. They wear white robes and white hats. They also call themselves “grand wizard” to show status. The klan did an act of terrorism like, killing and burning homes. The klan became illegal because of The Klan and Enforcement Act put in end to it.

First, she would never give up. When she was trying to get a job she was going to keep trying. Then she found a job that blacks get treated the same as whites. The job was Maxwell Air force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.