http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_kkk.html
Very good article from a highly reputable and informative organization. Lots of good information
Some standout sentences:
The white man has tortured black people. And still we rise.
Stay strong brehs/ettes
Very good article from a highly reputable and informative organization. Lots of good information
Some standout sentences:
- The Klan grew quickly and became a terrorist organization.
- The Klan spread beyond Tennessee to every state in the South and included mayors, judges, and sheriffs as well as common criminals.
- The Klan systematically murdered black politicians and political leaders. It beat, whipped, and murdered thousands, and intimidated tens of thousands of others from voting. Blacks often tried to fight back, but they were outnumbered and out gunned.
- While the main targets of Klan wrath were the political and social leaders of the black community, blacks could be murdered for almost any reason. Men, women, children, aged and crippled, were victims.
- In Georgia, Abraham Colby, an organizer and leader in the black community, was whipped for hours in front of his wife and children. His little daughter begged the Klansman, "Don't take my daddy away." She never recovered from the sight and died soon after.
- Blacks were whipped for refusing to work for whites, for having intimate relations with whites, for arguing with whites, for having jobs whites wanted, for reading a newspaper or having a book in their homes.. Or simply for being black.
- In Tennessee and Arkansas, Republicans organized a police force that arrested Klansmen and carried out executions. In Texas, Governor Edmund Davis organized a crack state police unit, 40 percent of whose officers were black. The police made over 6,000 arrests and stopped the Klan.
The white man has tortured black people. And still we rise.
Stay strong brehs/ettes