During the 1920’s a group called name the Ku Klux Klan that formed in 1865‚ began gaining and becoming more centralized throughout America. It was three movements that practiced extreme reactionary. The Ku Klux Klan advocated‚ white supremacy‚ white nationalism‚ anti-immigration. The KKK re emerged in the 1920’s‚ and became a national organization throughout the states. People that joined the KKK were mostly protestant middle class white men. That wanted to make sure that African Americans‚ immigrants
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Introduction In the United States‚ there is approximately 25‚000 hard-core Americans believing in the ideology behind white supremacy‚ which when considering this number‚ is a small fraction of the white population. These white supremacist activists are organized into approximately 300 different organizations to further their belief in white supremacy. In
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Purpose: The purpose of this letter was to explain the goals of these nonviolent demonstrations and the letter is directed to the white clergymen who had criticized these demonstrations and also called him an outsider and troublemaker. Chronological and Topical Scope: Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested and imprisoned for participating in these nonviolent demonstrations. Thesis and Main Points: In the letter Martin Luther King Jr.’s says‚ “I am in Birmingham because injustice is
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nationalism and the beliefs of Marcus Garvey‚ and his mother was a home-maker. While he was a small child living with his family in Omaha‚ his father was a target of the Ku Klux Klan‚ a white supremacist group. The family eventually moved to East Lansing‚ Michigan. While living in Michigan‚ the family’s house was torched by Ku Klux Klan members‚ which is far worse than the trouble caused in Omaha. Later on‚ Malcolm’s father’s body was found on train tracks‚ lifeless. While the family knew that white
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a rapidly growing black population‚ these minority groups were to suffer at the hands of those concerned with the values of White‚ Anglo-Saxon Protestants‚ with these values playing a fundamental role in the American way of life. Arguably‚ the Ku Klux Klan was formed concerning a culmination of such values‚ allowing for the tolerance of racist views within the media‚ literature alongside within formal organisations. Its popularity and influence stemmed from its appeal‚ which was broadened from blacks
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followed at the time meant that coloured people could not share the same public areas as white people‚ could not attend the same schools and churches and could not even sit at the front section of bus. Whilst in principle the ‘separate but equal’ ideology should have been less unjust‚ it often resulted in coloured people having inferior facilities and fewer opportunities to white people. As said by U.S. president Barak Obama‚ it was a time in which "there were couples in love who couldn’t marry. Soldiers
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Diana Scutt History 150 Professor Sandow In the article Traditional Nativism’s Last Stand by David H. Bennett he proves his view on how he thought that the 1920s Ku Klux Klan was an extremist organization by using Klan papers‚ magazines‚ books‚ and articles. One spokesman‚ Reverend E. H. Laugher stated that‚ “The KKK is not a lodge or a society or a political party.” Laugher explained his statement by saying that it was a mass movement and that it was‚ “a crusade of American people who are
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Have you ever wondered what was the purpose for the ku Klux klan and the Black panther party? Well‚ The Ku Klux Klan was originally formed to combat a series of post-civil war policy decisions that many of the southern citizenry felt was unfair and oppressive. However‚ the Black Panther group was formed when there was blatant racism prevailing in the United States and most African Americans could not make much progress. First‚ both of the ku Klux Klan and the Black Panther party took their jobs very
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Confederate soldiers" -Oath of the Ku Klux Klan Since the 1860s‚ white Southerners have always held a higher status than African Americans until a great change occurred that completely turned their society upside down‚ leaving the whites in fear of becoming inferior to blacks and being taken over by them. For the Ku Klux Klan‚ the African American being "on top" was the source of that fear. Hate and fear brought on by the infamous racist hate group dubbed the Ku Klux Klan towards African Americans has
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The Knights of the White Camellia was a secret organization of white men formed in the lower Southern states in the Reconstruction period. They were considered much more conservative than the Klan and they were generally less violent. Its members were pledged to support the supremacy of the white race‚ to oppose the uniting of the races‚ to resist the social and political seizing of the carpetbaggers‚ and to restore white control of the government (Cantrell‚ 2005). The Knights of the White Camellia
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