Grant won the office with the slogan, "Let Us Have Peace." Republicans also won a majority in Congress. Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed harsher restrictions on the South and closely regulated the formation of their new governments. Other legislation attacked the Klan more directly. Between 1870 and 1871, Congress passed the Enforcement Acts, which made it a crime to interfere with registration, voting, officeholding, or jury service of blacks.
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They wanted to maintain White control and supremacy while oppressing the Blacks. The oppression of non- White Anglo Saxon Protestants (WASPs) would come a bit later. For now, the Ku Klux Klan would focus on oppressing the Blacks. They did most of their activities at night. Members of the Ku Klux Klan would be donning masks and robes to conceal their identities.
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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.
Their first objective of the group was to stop the blacks from voting. The group gained much popularity and had significant authority to the government. Du Bois also stated that the group used to affect the decisions of the government because it had the majority of the members. As it was mention in “A Brief History of the Ku Klux Klan” article, “By the early 1920s the Klan had more than 2 million members and exercised great political power in the south, in the boarder states, and in the Midwest.” Their activities and resolutions in the government were very inhuman because it discriminated against some of the people. Du Bois state that the KKK dominated the southern region for very many years, where the Africans were discriminated, and their rights violated.
Tulsa R ace Riots By Carmela Swinton During the early 1920s, the United States of America went through many significant changes both social and political. The Ku Klux Klan was reformed for the second time, racial segregation was common, and lynching and assault was common through the USA particularly the Southern area. These changes would develop racial tensions between the traditional White Anglo Saxon Protestant and that of the African Americans and other minority groups. Such racial tensions would eventually lead to many race riots including the Tulsa Race Riots of 1921. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a racist, anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goal for racial segregation and white supremacy.
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Groups such as the KKK didn’t like to scare blacks into trying to leave town by putting up signs, burning homes down and killing people throughout the entire country, to show people the stand for what they believe in. Blacks were viewed in the 1960s as horrible people, if someone saw a black person on TV or walking around their first impression would be what’s he or she doing here or there. The 1960s were a time where the world was changing. Music was changing, politics were changing, and people were changing. But one problem seemed to remain in society, racism.