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    Hate Crimes COM/ 156 Hate crimes can come in many different forms and can be viewed in many different ways. Hate crimes are one of the main contributors to falsely accusing or exaggerating one person’s actions. Often many are targeted and defined because of their race‚ sex‚ origin‚ personality‚ and actions; yet the ones that are targeting those certain people are not being brought to justice for being in the wrong. According to The Criminal Law Review‚ the Case for Extending the Existing

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    Without Sanctuary: Lynching in America These photos show how dangerous it was to be an African American trying to become something during Jim Crow America. If you wanted to be anything more then a free slave you would be hunted down by the Ku Klux Klan and lynched. Although it was against the law‚ it seemed to have become socially acceptable because people were sending these pictures as postcards. Also‚ hangings were a spectacle. In many of the photos large groups of people crowed around to watch

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    racism towards black people was generally going down in the Northern States but in the Southern States the laws restricted black people to roam America a free citizens. Even when racism began to be abolished their came the KKK also known as the Ku Klux Klan in the Southern States claiming to be heroes by lynching people who would do nothing wrong. Mohamed Mohamed 23/09/13

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    Cardel Blalock                                            5/4/17                                                    English                                                                      The Jazz Age:                        What is the Jazz Age ?The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s ‚ ending with the Great Depression in which jazz music and dance styles became popular in the United States. Despite of social and economic upheaval ‚ the 1900s prospered as a whole. Society was experiencing a

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    in which more than 500 foreign citizens were deported. Both of these events confirmed the growing belief that the US was under threat from new immigrants. In order to diminish this fear‚ the Ku Klux Klan reappeared through the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. Joining the Klan was seen as patriotic and the Klan claimed that they were preserving American traditional moral values. By 1924‚ the membership rose to 4 million people‚ many of them holding positions as state assemblymen‚ sheriffs‚ and judges

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    successful segregation that has been able to withstand the onslaught of integration‚ and total non-acceptance of Jews‚ Papists‚ Turks‚ Mongols‚ Orientals‚ Asians‚ and Negros. While differences crop up between investigative tactics of the two agents‚ the Ku Klux Klan‚ aided by the police‚ target the fearful African-Americans‚ brutally torturing them and setting their houses on fire. With the entire local community‚ both black and white‚ refusing to come forward with any information. The FBI must now consider

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    During World War I African Americans were determined to find their rightful place in American culture and society. Hundreds of thousands of African Americans migrated North in search of jobs‚ better living conditions and escape from racist voting laws and violent lynching’s. While voting was made easier in the North‚ violence could not be escaped. In 1919‚ 120 African Americans died by September due to racism. Many returning white soldiers had to now compete for jobs against African Americans and

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    cultural reform of the Ku Klux Klan. According to Document D “The Klan’s Fight For Americanism”‚ It is written that the Klan would like to get rid of the old politics and bring in new revolutionary success. This success involved a mostly Nordic race. In the past‚ the Klan has been known for their violent ways in attempting to reform the nation’s culture. The old political ideas and the new ideas of the Klan brought about high tensions from all the citizens and politician the Klan was against. A new

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    overthrow existing governmental policies or structures‚ or to intimidate individuals and groups they perceive as threatening to the social‚ political‚ economic‚ or ideological status quo. Probably the most famous example of terrorism from below is the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan’s underlying ideas of racial separation and white Protestant supremacy echoed

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    Prisoner Rights Prisoners rights have come a long way from what they were in the 1800’s‚ prisoners back then had no rights they were abused and mistreated and the prison officials did whatever they wanted to prisoners and they had no say. During the 1800’s prisoners were kept in unsatisfactory conditions that were unclean‚ unsafe‚ falling apart and underfed they were giving small portions of bread‚ it seemed as they were being teased with the food. There punishments were harsh and unruly‚ they were

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