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Sharecroppers and the Rise of the KKK By: Zachary Perez
In Spain during the whole eastern period The Flagellants used conical hats, white robes and mask were used for discipline in a sexual act. But in the 1860s in the United States it did not have the same use or meaning. The Ku Klux Klan-also known as the KKK, an organization based on white supremacy and hatred for any other race mainly African-American. The KKK disseminated fear and terror among other races and African- American population, they would usually attack at night with their faces covered claiming to ghosts of the confederate’s soldiers. In the beginning the kkk terrorized small towns where everyone knew each other .But as African-Americans started to spread throughout the united states and becoming serious roles in society like political leaders and religion leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther king jr, Rose Park etc…the kkk stared to organizing political riots and massacres of entire black families. By the 1880s the KKK declined but raised again in the late 1990s , when the burning cross appeared again due to the released of a film named “ The Birth of a Nation” by Leo Frank , a Jewish business man(The Mississippi Burning trial 73).Along with the KKK other situation happen during the post-war period it was the sharecroppers. After the civil war, slaved used a method called sharecropping to pay their debts and make extra money. Also plantation owners would lend them money for food and utensils and they would also give them a cabin they can use to live in. Since owners borrow some money from the bank, they would benefit from the interest rate they charged the slave. The plantation owners dislike the methods because they won’t have the net percentage of benefits but needed money before the plantation would go into bankruptcy.
In Spain during the whole eastern period The Flagellants used conical hats, white robes and mask were used for discipline in a sexual act. But in the 1860s in the United States it did not have the same use or meaning. The Ku Klux Klan-also known as the KKK, an organization based on white supremacy and hatred for any other race mainly African-American. The KKK disseminated fear and terror among other races and African- American population, they would usually attack at night with their faces covered claiming to ghosts of the confederate’s soldiers. In the beginning the kkk terrorized small towns where everyone knew each other .But as African-Americans started to spread throughout the united states and becoming serious roles in society like political leaders and religion leaders such as Malcolm X, Martin Luther king jr, Rose Park etc…the kkk stared to organizing political riots and massacres of entire black families. By the 1880s the KKK declined but raised again in the late 1990s , when the burning cross appeared again due to the released of a film named “ The Birth of a Nation” by Leo Frank , a Jewish business man(The Mississippi Burning trial 73).Along with the KKK other situation happen during the post-war period it was the sharecroppers. After the civil war, slaved used a method called sharecropping to pay their debts and make extra money. Also plantation owners would lend them money for food and utensils and they would also give them a cabin they can use to live in. Since owners borrow some money from the bank, they would benefit from the interest rate they charged the slave. The plantation owners dislike the methods because they won’t have the net percentage of benefits but needed money before the plantation would go into bankruptcy.