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…for their atrocities to Africa, we have also searched the annals of history to find how such a thing as slavery or concept as racial superiority could ever thrive in modern civilization. We have debated for ages whether our notion of supremacy was the crucible for slave…

…to white supremacy in the South began with the planter's intention of keeping the institution of slavery. Whites perceived emancipation as "uncompensated liquidation of the nation's largest concentration of private property and a redefinition of the place…

…trying to intimidate or were just trying to frighten. When this type of intimidation failed their victims might be flogged, mutilated or murdered. The Klan believed these measures to be justified as necessary in the defence of white supremacy and the sanctity…

…and even labour union organisers. Simmons also organised two other white supremacy groups in 1915. These two groups were called the Knights of the Flaming Sword and the Caucasian Crusade. These groups, unlike the Ku Klux Klan, died within a matter of years…

…happened, Derrick began to blame a whole race for his loss and because of this, gets involved with a white supremacy group. Danny, Derricks little brother had also heard all of the things his father had said that night at the dinner table, and now he also began…

…Klan grew out of the unrest, speaking out for white supremacy which in turn would give the South the self reign it was seeking. This group grew out of the meetings of young men in Tennessee, but its actions were far from novel. The men felt they were…

…created what they had been seeking. That night Simmons held a cross burning ceremony atop Stone Mountain in Georgia. The ceremony pledged new members to be “True to the faithful maintenance of white supremacy.” In order to become a member of the new Ku Klux…

…associated him with supremacy and command. “‘I told them I was frightened when the white man came. So I shot him. I did not mean to kill him.’”(Pg. 98) When so many white people are being killed by blacks, it can only increase the fear felt by both races: blacks…

…eventually ruled out giving the Negroes a brighter future. All these features belong to the Negroes' struggle of accomplishing equality. The principle of white supremacy often restrained the Negroes from achieving equal rights. The hostility of the Ku Klux Klan…

…and that of the blacks are too similar: whites may now claim a racial superiority but not a class superiority. Poor whites, too, can be "owned" as blacks were. The racial element in the doorway encounter only fuels the father's rage even more. His supposed supremacy…