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Author : Everette Swinney
Release : 1987
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Suppressing the Ku Klux Klan by : Everette Swinney
Download or read book Suppressing the Ku Klux Klan written by Everette Swinney. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Everette Swinney
Release : 1966
Genre : African Americans
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Book Synopsis Suppressing the Ku Klux Klan by : Everette Swinney
Download or read book Suppressing the Ku Klux Klan written by Everette Swinney. This book was released on 1966. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Scott Farris
Release : 2020-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Freedom on Trial by : Scott Farris
Download or read book Freedom on Trial written by Scott Farris. This book was released on 2020-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Confederacy lost the Civil War but quickly began to win the peace when a mysterious organization arose called the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux, as it was then called, sought to restore white supremacy by terrorizing the formerly enslaved to prevent them from voting or owning firearms. To support Black resistance to the KKK’s campaign of murder and mayhem, President Ulysses S. Grant suspended the writ of habeas corpus in large portions of South Carolina and sent the famed 7th Cavalry to make mass arrests. Grant’s new attorney general, the first former Confederate to serve in a presidential Cabinet and an ardent advocate for Black equality, Amos T. Akerman, aggressively prosecuted the Ku Klux in a series of sensational trials that shocked the nation and forced a reckoning regarding just how much the Civil War and the recently enacted Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution had changed America and its notions of citizenship. Highlighting forgotten Black and white civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author’s own great-grandfather’s crimes as a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story of a moment pregnant with promise when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn. It is a story that also offers a sober lesson for those engaged in the ongoing work of fulfilling the American promise of equality for all.
Author : Jerry Lee West
Release : 2002-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 587/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877 by : Jerry Lee West
Download or read book The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877 written by Jerry Lee West. This book was released on 2002-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reconstruction was meant to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South following the Civil War. But the Reconstruction, marked by the continued strong hatred and hostility between liberated African Americans and angry Ku Klux Klan members, was hardly a time of reconciliation for the South. This work deals with the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, a paramilitary group with political aims that used violence and intimidation to achieve its goals. It addresses exclusively the Klans activities in York County, South Carolina, during the years 1865-1877. It clarifies some misconceptions about the Reconstruction Klan and disentangles it from later organizations that used the same name. There are no reports of its burning crosses or persecuting Jews and Catholics and it has no connection to the Klan that appeared in the early part of the twentieth century or todays counterpart that marches under the Confederate flag. Throughout the Reconstruction, blacks and whites tried to out-shout each other in the new era of conversation, and, as shown in this work, made little progress in understanding, or trying to understand, each other.
Author : Nancy MacLean
Release : 1994
Genre : Athens (Ga.)
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Book Synopsis Behind the Mask of Chivalry by : Nancy MacLean
Download or read book Behind the Mask of Chivalry written by Nancy MacLean. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion.
