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…, “The fact is that racist white America is not worried about the possibility of Negroes being exterminated. It is more worried about the loss of its privileged position in its racist caste society; its system of white supremacy and world government” (“USA” 325…

…occurrence. The blacks considered Booker T. Washington to be "Uncle Tom." This meant that he would turn in all the blacks in order to be accepted by the whites. However, the blacks were mistaken. Washington tried to make a place for the blacks, helping them fit…

…, near Atlanta, Ga., in 1915 as a fraternal organization devoted to the principles of white supremacy. It was a new organization, linked only by name and tradition to the original Klan. By 1919, Edward Clark Young and Elizabeth Tyler, publicity agent…

…great shock between the ideals of white supremacy and race equality” in history. In Saint-Domingue thousands of black seized firebrands and machetes to rise up against their white masters and mulattos. The leader of the rebellion a full-blooded black ex-slave…

…supremacy and states rights. This battle for power within the government during the Reconstruction greatly affected every aspect of the United States by guaranteeing equality and rights to African-Americans, things they never had before. Before the Civil War…

…societies coexisting side by side" Americans continued infringing on Native territories "in a relentless manner despite laws and treaties" (130, 131). Generally, "tension and conflict marked most of the boundaries between Indian country and white settlement" (131…

…community in Maycomb County, located in the South. Although slavery has been legally abolished for many years, the Southerners in Maycomb continued to believe in white supremacy, and the novel projects the social snobbery and the prejudice attached…

…were routinely censored. Furthermore, whites were willing to suppress but law boxing pictures in which blacks beat whites, bit they would not stop the exhibition of The Birth of a Nation" (Staiger 202). Furthermore, when the movie was first released…

…there is a brief point worth emphasizing: many historians have maintained that Northerners were as committed to the white supremacy as Southerners. This may have been true, but the scale concern with this matter in the South was so much greater as to constitute…

…acceptance of the new policies. In addition the white southerners thought themselves superior to the blacks and showed this idea by the formation of several white supremacy groups. The most widely known was the Ku Klux Klan. These groups further weakened…