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…and they take over the political polls, while the leading white citizens are disenfranchised. Negroes and carpetbaggers sweep the state in the election. Silas Lynch is elected Lieutenant Governor, a fierce zealot for "black supremacy." The blacks shoot…

…Ku Klux Klan The Ku Klux Klan has been the most organized of the many different White supremacy groups that came into being after the Civil War. The ill-reputed Knights of the Klan have been involved in countless incidents of human rights…

…with the Democrats in certain states, the party elected several members to Congress, three governors, and hundreds of minor officials and legislators, nearly all in the northern Middle West. In the South, however, most farmers refused to endanger white supremacy by voting…

…Klux Klan The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William J. Simmons, an ex-minister and promoter of fraternal orders; its first meeting was held on Stone Mt., Ga. The new Klan had a wider program than its forerunner, for it added to "white supremacy…

…Kumalo, which is not something done lightly, as the author reiterates again and again. It is not done lightly because they are distanced by their race. The author is suggesting that this racial pattern of white supremacy and black inferiority…

…, intimidation, and murder in their endeavor to purify America. The KKK flourished until the 1930’s because many felt the need to defend white supremacy and Protestant morality in the face of the values of modernity. Prohibition arose to deal with the social…

…. Yes, we have come a long way through the years. Now, laws prohibit segregation and racial biast, but it is still a problem everywhere you go. Alot of people see racism as whites against blacks. That¡¯s racist to say right there, what about blacks…

…was raised to believe that father’s views on the superiority white race and the strength of the Confederacy were the natural and correct beliefs. And, when his father joined the Ku Klux Klan, the young boy was introduced to a magnified degree of racism and white…

…exhulting white supremacy. After viciously whipping their victim they would hang them and leave them for others to see. They wanted to put fear into the hearts of their enemies. Between 1918 and 1927, there were no fewer than 417 lynchings of blacks…

…has not fully recovered, but in the 1700's it was a question of pure economics. The question of the cheapest labor, it was not a race issue. It was over time that the belief of white supremacy came into the minds of whites, and has taken centuries…