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- 101: Civil War - Radical Reconstruction
- ... system in the South. Many Southern Whites who felt threatened, turned to illegal means stop Blacks from getting equality. Violence against Blacks became more and more popular. Led by the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations, Whites killed and beat Blacks throughout the South. The KKK even would wait by voting booths and beat Blacks if they did not vote the way ...
- 102: Civil Rights
- ... Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy hold a secret meeting at which King learns that the new president will not push hard for new civil rights legislation. 1962: Ku Klux Klan dynamite blasts destroy four black churches in Georgia towns. 1962: President Kennedy federalizes the National Guard and sends several hundred federal marshals to Mississippi to guarantee James Meredith’s ...
- 103: African-Americans In The South
- ... the careful eye of a KKK leader. Sadly enough a Black trying to pursue his right to vote was often met with death or loss of income. According to the Ku Klux Klan, they stand for five "simple" views. The first being "The White Race" being the Aryan race and its Christian faith. The second, "America First" states that "America comes first ...
- 104: Airika
- ... the careful eye of a KKK leader. Sadly enough a Black trying to pursue his right to vote was often met with death or loss of income. According to the Ku Klux Klan, they stand for five "simple" views. The first being "The White Race" being the Aryan race and its Christian faith. The second, "America First" states that "America comes first ...
- 105: 20s And 30s
- ... and the Fundamentalists. In womenˇ¦s fashion, there was conflict between the old Victorian fashion and more free modern fashion. The flapper movement for young women became popular. Also, the Ku Klux Klan became very large in the 1920s. The KKK was founded in 1865 by William Nathan Bedford, a former confederate general, which began a campaign of terror against free blacks ...
- 106: Harlem Slums As A Result Of Th
- ... that the NAACP fought for were a legal judicial system, the right to vote, equal employment, schooling, and equal opportunity. Unlike one of their main targets for legal prosecution, the Ku Klux Klan, the NAACP believed in solving their disputes through the court system. Another task that the NAACP was set upon completing was the education of all on the problems and ...
- 107: Great Depression Timeline
- ... and a non-interventionist government. He announces to the American people: "The business of America is business." Supreme Court nullifies minimum wage for women in District of Columbia. 1924 The Ku Klux Klan reaches the height of its influence in America: by the end of the year it will claim 9 million members. It will decline drastically in 1925, however, after financial ...
- 108: Fbi
- ... of the criminals of "the gangster era." For example, it investigated Al Capone as a "fugitive federal witness." Federal investigation of a resurgent white supremacy movement also required creativity. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), dormant since the late 1800s, was revived in part to counteract the economic gains made by African Americans during World War I. The Bureau of Investigation used the ...
- 109: Civil War Causes And Reconstru
- ... way back in and got their power back, committing the same crimes as before. They even got power hungry again and tried to rise up with groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. If they couldn't control their State the legal way, they would do it illegally and with more violent and aggressive ways. The South learned almost nothing from the ...
- 110: American Westerns (maverick, T
- ... when women were introduced into new fields like nursing and teaching. In the late nineteenth century, the United States went through many changes. Blacks were organizing union leagues, while the Ku Klux Klan was forming. The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments were passed, establishing the full emancipation of slaves, assuring all citizens equality before the law, and allowing all male American citizens ...
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