The novel written by Nancy Mclean “Behind the Mask of Chivalry” is based upon the history of the second KKK in the post-World War I era of the 1920’s, specifically in Athens, GA. Mclean writes about the many different levels of the Klan and how they played a key role in the south both politically and socially with their main focus on gender issues, the sexual revolution, and labor disputes. When one first thinks of the KKK they would imagine a brutal uneducated group of secretive racists with no mind for the law, however Nancy Mclean writes of much more. Although the KKK throughout the country were obsessively secretive by nature Mclean was lucky enough in having access to the records of the chapter located in Athens, GA. Part 1 of the book provides the historical information for the resurgence of the Klan by describing the economic and social conditions that were present after WWI, including the accelerated expectation for different races and genders. Part 2 explains the principles of the Klan and how members both interpreted and manipulated divisions among race, gender, and class. Including also how they employed terror tactics to enforce those interpretations.
The KKK were terrifying to many people in the 1920s & 1930s, the Klan were feared for many reasons, some of those were, they campaigned against immigrants such as blacks, Jews, and Catholics. Also the look of the KKK made them feared; they wore white robes and white conical hats which covered their faces. The Klan was also feared for the extrajudicial executions, or also known as lynching, on their victims. The Klan was also extremely powerful as well. They claimed to be a patriotic organisation trying to protect ‘American way of life’ devoted to ‘100% Americansim’.
Over the past five centuries, black people have endured violence in many different ways. In history, racist violence, police brutality, has been used to suppress the racial blacks and to preserve power and privileges for the white race. The practice of police brutality has a strong affect on a main segment of the American population. Those affected are minorities and the elderly causing them to have strong hatred towards the whites in America. Police brutality is abuse by law enforcement, where a police officer feels that because he/she has a badge and a gun therefore it puts them above the law and they can use unnecessary force against another individual.
Taking place at a time of great civil unrest in America, as well as a place where the Gay community were particularly despised [2] . For decades the homosexual community of America had been abused, institutionalised, arrested and treated as mentally insane. So to truly understand the lasting impact of the Stonewell Riots on the gay liberation movement one must first understand the oppression and abuse felt by the LGBT community in those years before Stonewall. Since the words ‘homosexual’
The formation of the Ku Klux Klan was one of the major contributing factors to the long bloody struggle that was racism in America. The Klan is classified as a hate group, and throughout three summits in history forced blacks and other minorities to live in a fear that they did not deserve. The Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1866 by a group of men including John D. Kennedy, Captain John C. Lester and Frank O. McCord, among others, in Pulaski, Tennessee. “The name was derived from the Greek word kylos, meaning ‘circle’. ‘Klan was added for the purpose of alliteration” (“Ku Klux Klan”).
These events all lead to Militarism, a better economy and foreign trade, led to countries having more money to buy weapons. Population also meant more soldiers, and steel and iron production was transported easier due to trains and steam boats. By 1914, The triple alliance had more ships, 49 more warships and 125 more submarines (resources of the Great Powers in 1914). But the Triple Entente had more man power, 599000 thousand more. Germany tried to build a much stronger navy to show its power.
The Constitution, until recently, did not apply to blacks; blacks feel they deserve payments from 310 years of slavery, destruction to their minds and culture. Dr. Martin Luther King's dilemma in the United States was of a different kind. He was torn between his identity as a Black man of African descent and his identity as an American. He urged Americans to judge based on the content of the character not by skin color and also believed in non-violent protests. Martin Luther King Jr’s main perspective during the fight on racism was equality.
This movie reveals a sign of regress of our society because, most lynching incidents in America which occurred in public spaces and were usually the result of rape allegations involving black male supposedly assailants and white women who were purportedly their victims has not been seeing as a pure act of cruelty and hated from white supremacist calling for “justice”. A proof of this is that today, the noose appears in secluded areas such as school grounds and workplaces (Hyde Turner tragedy at work Conrald, Texas) as a result of racial tension in the U.S. Years after the Civil Right Movement, the battle for respect among all people regardless of the color of their skins and the end of racist organization or movement is far from over. A change has been operated but it is not enough to prevent such actions in the first democratic country of the world. In my opinion, the fact CNN host Kyra Phillips emphasize the importance that “youth people understand the horrors of the noose.” shows that American youth today are more sensitive about racial violence than previous generations of Americans. The essential reasons is because these major racial acts of violence occurred in the past so we should now be able to look at it from a clear, reasonably coherent and tolerant point of view in order to make these events stop.
Slavery was the main cause of the breakup of the Union and influenced other factors, such as territorial expansion, industrialization and economic tensions, and political alignments. Combined, all of these conflicts, with slavery at the root, led to the conflicts in the nation that started the Civil War. The issue of slavery caused conflict regarding new territories, economic stratification, and political turmoil. All of these tensions served to divide the nation, North against South, to start the Civil War. Slavery, in itself, was the most predominant reason for the breakup of the Union.
Tom Streissguth states, ““Hate crime” as a legal category if are recent invention, but bias- motivated violence has a long history” (3). The most famous one is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) established in 1865. After Northern states won in the America Civil War, Abraham Lincoln declared Reconstruction of Southern states emphasizing civil rights, voting