Reconstruction in the South Reconstruction is the Federal Governments plan(s) to abolish slavery‚ change the way of life in the South‚ and to bring the nation back together after the devastating effects of the Civil War. Many Government plans were brought up but never fell through. Likewise‚ Presidents over the years‚ after the Civil War‚ had also brought their own Reconstruction plans to the nation. Several good things came from each plan but not one individual plan had drastically changed
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Camel Advertisements It’s no big secret‚ the producers of the Jerry Springer talk show knew exactly what would happen when they put the Ku Klux Klan and the Black Panther Party on the same stage. The two groups started fighting and much of the nation tuned in to watch it. In the same manner‚ Camel Cigarettes Company released an advertisement that parodied that kind of TV program. The advertisement‚ titled "Bizarre Bigfoot Love Triangle‚" shows the kind of scene that would be typical in a Jerry
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people‚ an unusual sight on a Sunday afternoon in a Deep South town. Your bus eases into the station parking lot just after 1 p.m. The station is locked. Silence. Then‚ out of nowhere‚ there’s a screaming mob led by William Chappell‚ Anniston’s Ku Klux Klan leader. Someone hears your driver encourage the attackers with the greeting: “Well‚ boys‚ here they are. I brought you some niggers and nigger-lovers.” The crowd of about 50‚ carrying metal pipes‚ clubs and chains‚ surrounds your bus. One of them
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in blackface‚ and the men were depicted as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women (such as the scene where Gus‚ a white actor in blackface‚ attempted to rape Flora Cameron‚ a white woman). The film also dramatized the origins of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and portrayed them as heroes (as with the scene the KKK
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even the president turned away from the problems of Reconstruction. Southern resistance also‚ had a big impact on the end of Reconstruction. In a letter‚ a man named Albion Tourgee wrote about the Ku Klux Klan’s actions in the south. Tourgee served as a judge in North Carolina and he believed the Klan was after carpetbaggers‚ such as Tourgee himself. The KKK is
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The early 1900s were filled with many new social ideas and changes. New faces arose during this time‚ and many new ideas changed the shape of society. Among these were race relations‚ the role of women in society‚ and the ever-heated modernism versus fundamentalism debate. Relationships between races were very sketchy during the early 1900s. Racism was still very strong in the country‚ and ethnic groups settled in an area and created their own little communities. Harlem‚ New York was a black
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Case: Brandenburg V. Ohio Year: 1969 Facts: Clarence Brandenburg‚ a leader of an Ohio affiliate of the Ku Klux Klan‚ asked a reported to attend a KKK rally and cover the event. The reporter attended with a camera crew and filmed the rally that took place. Twelve white hooded figures‚ including that of Brandenburg’s‚ were seen with a wooden cross that was burned‚ and Brandenburg the said‚ “We’re not an revengent organization‚ but if our President‚ our Congress‚ and our Supreme Court‚ continues to
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brainwashed Negro experienced psychological and physical pain which caused them to conform to the white man’s religion‚ conk (perm)‚ and lifestyles. This destruction of the Negro mind and family was significant to Malcolm even as a child when the Ku Klux Klan killed his father‚ which led to his family’s separation once the state Welfare officials attacked his mother’s sanity and peace of mind. Though X was accurately able to explain how and why others were brainwashed‚ he does not believe he was
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Evers was shot and killed in Jackson‚ Mississippi‚ on June 12‚ 1963. Medgar Evers pulled into his driveway of his Jackson home as he was getting out of his car he was shot in the back by Byron De la Beckwith. Beckwith was a known member of the Ku Klux Klan. Beckwith was 42 years old when he shot Evers‚ but he was not convicted of the crime until he was 73 years old. Beckwith bragged for 31 years that he had gotten away with killed Evers. This movie stays true to what actually happened in history
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KKK idealized the Fundamentalist and Modernist clash because of the growing membership and forthright ideals of the group‚ holding nativist and creationist attitudes and denying evolution. Largely focused in the Midwest and the Bible Belt‚ the Ku Klux Klan‚ headed by members such as the Imperial Wizard‚ Grand Goblins‚ and King Kleagles‚ held firm Fundamentalist beliefs and denounced Modernist ideas such as evolution and progression found in alcohol and birth control “experiments.” The KKK was against
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