• April 9, 1865 at a
private home in a
Virginian village
called Appomattox
Court House: General
Lee surrendered his
Confederate forces.
Is Kayne right?
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http://money.cnn.com/2012/06/21/news
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http://www.census.gov/compendia/sta
tab/2012/tables/12s0697.pdf
How is this possible???
African-Americans constitute
nearly 1 million of the total 2.3
million incarcerated population.
African-Americans are
incarcerated at nearly 6
times the rate of whites.
1 in 5 African-American men had been incarcerated as of 2011. If
this trend continues, 1 in 3 African-American males born today can
expect to spend time in prison during his lifetime.
Nationwide, African-Americans represent 26% of
juvenile arrests, 44% of youth who are detained, 46% of
the youth who are judicially waived to criminal court, and
58% of the youth admitted to state prisons.
The unemployment rate for AfricanAmerican is over 3 million, and is 16% of
the total unemployment statistics.
The poverty rates:
African-Americans - 28%
all other races - 11%
Answer:
Slavery
&
Ineffective
Reconstruction
Over 13 million Americans are on welfare, of that
over 40% are African-Americans.
Does America
Have Equality
Today?
Actually son,
you’re an
Don’t punish the
embarrassment
South just punish
to the South!!!
that little coward
I can’t even look at
Booth for what he
that idiot Booth. Why
I will be the
did.
won’t people listen to
biggest enemy
me and my plans
for
of the KKK!!!
Robert E. Lee
The black man
slow change in
For the record,
needs to start in the
Reconstruction
Booth you’re
an
trades and work
Hey Johnson,
policy. don’t feel
idiot!!!
himself up in
bad because I sucked
society.
We need gutsyat being President
radical changes
in I was the best
too!!!
Hiram Revels
America. We also
General the Union
had
I
believe
we must
I am so glad the
Frederick
need to get ridthough.
of
have a heavily
Douglass
war is over I hated
that good for
educated class of
being Pres. of the
nothing Pres.
I’m a Hero!!!
Confederacy black elites that
Johnson
advance the
race.
Why does
everyone hate me?
Abraham
Lincoln
Booker T.
Washington
Andrew
Johnson
Thaddeus
Stevens
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Jefferson
Davis
W.E.B.
Dubois
Ulysses S
Grant
The time period from 1865 to 1877. This was the period
where the United States began to rebuild after the Civil War.
This process had to readmit the defeated Confederate
states back into the Union.
Radical Republicans want drastic changes in the South
with laws that will ensure the rights of African Americans.
They wanted to give African Americans the right to vote and
hold political office. Do you see a problem here?
Lincoln does not want radical changes because he is afraid
that it will be counter productive. Before he can make a
influence on the politics of Reconstruction he is assassinated
by John Wilkes Booth.
Lincoln is assassinated!!! 1865
Lincoln’s successor will be Vice President Andrew Johnson
who is a friend to neither the Radical Republicans or the old
Confederacy and he is also a proponent of states rights,
however when he takes over he does not make any radical
changes.
• Thaddeus Stevens is a Radical Republican
representative from Pennsylvania that emerges as the
leader and most outspoken member of the radicals.
• They want blacks to have voting rights, land rights, and
protection under the federal law.
• They also felt that Johnson gave to many powers to the
states that allowed them to make their own laws without
influence or interference from the federal government.
What will the South do next with blacks in their
territories.
• They are able to influence Congress enough to pass the
14th Amendment in 1866 that provided citizenship to all
people born in the US and protected them with the
Constitution.
• 15th Amendment will state that no one can be kept from
voting because of race color or previous condition of
servitude. It was ratified in 1870.
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•
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form
the
KKK
that
will
try
to
combat
what
the
South
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white
child
permanently
into
the
custody,
control,
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a
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their
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and brutality
against
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trustees
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• They also begin the policy of lynching that brings fear to
Mental Hospitals The Board of Control shall see that proper and distinct apartments are arranged for said patients, so
blacks
all over
South.
that in no case
shall Negroes
and whitethe
persons
be together. Georgia
THE SOUTH!
“Had to redeem the South”
SO THEY START A “SOCIAL CLUB”
We’ve nicknamed
our social club the
“KKK”
Some of this may be
disturbing…But it is
important to
understand!
Ku Klux Klan
• Starts as a “social club”
• Want to remain secret
• Elite Rich White guys of
the South
–
–
–
–
–
Heads of State
Business Men
“Normal Guys”
Ministers
Priests
KKK Begins LYNCHING
African Americans
Serves 4 purposes for Southern
Whites:
1. Maintains social order over black population
through terrorism
2.
Eliminates AA competitors for
econ/social/political rewards
3.
Preserves the status of Elites
4.
Symbolic of White Unity
The Reasons Given for Black Lynchings
•Miscegenation Stealing
•Acting
suspiciously
Robbery
Testifying
against
white
man
•Trying
to
vote
Burglary
•Gambling
Attempted
murder
Enticement
Criminal
assault
•Quarreling
•Disorderly
conduct
Insulting white woman
Indolence
Non-sexual
assault
•Adultery
Living
with
white
•Mistaken
Suingwoman
white man
Running
a identity
bordello
Vagrancy
•Grave
robbing
•Unpopularity
Child abuse
Banditry
Throwing
stones
Extortion
•Race
hatred;
troubles
•ElopingRace
with white
woman
Inflammatory
language
Cutting
levee
Peeping
TomInsurrection
•Aiding
murderer
•Molestation
Sedition
Swindling
Violated
quarantine
Looting
•Improper
with
whiteConjuring
woman
Being
disreputable
•Unruly
remarks
Fraud
Train
wreckingKidnapping
•Rape
Informing
•Entered white woman's
room
Pillage
•Arguing
with white
man
Defending
rapist
Slander
•Murder
Terrorism
Voodooism
•Incest
Being
obnoxious
•Using
obscene language
Courting white woman
Making
threats
Plotting
toriot
kill
•Arson
Inciting
to
Injuring
livestock
Killing livestock
Trying
to
colonize
blacks
Voting
for
wrong
•Resisting
mob
Spreading disease party
Demanding
respect
•Assassination
Frightening
white
Boasting
about
riot woman
•Inciting
trouble
Poisoning
well
Insulting
white
man
“2 A WEEK…1880-1920”
52 x 2 x 40 = @4,000
accounted for…
GA, AL, MI, LA
but definitely more!
considered the
“Black Belt”
Like a sporting event…
Souvenirs sold of body
parts
If you missed one you can always buy a
postcard like this….→→→
1877…
THE NORTHERN RR’s
AND THE FEDS GIVE UP
• Reconstruction ends
• Northerners are “tired” of fighting for the
South.
• They want to put the Civil War “behind them”
• Federal Government pulls out of South
• KKK Dominates
What does this
• AA’s lose ALL rights
mean for Southern
• Jim Crow Laws set in…
African
Americans?
As a whole, the experience for AA
was not what they had dreamed of.
Initial gains were taken away and in
many ways life was worse after the
war than before.
Many people were stuck in poverty
and the effects are still felt today.
SO…
WAS “RECONSTRUCTION”
A FAILURE OR A SUCCESS?
Who REALLY won the
CIVIL WAR?!?
The North who preserved the Union?
Or
the South who, eventually, preserved their
“way of life”? (aka: their rights)
Pre-Civil War Slave Quarters
Georgia
Sharecroppers
Currently
Do you see any
difference?!?
Does The KKK Exist Today?
YES!
Places
&Chapters
Chicago · National Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Beardstown · Brotherhood of Klans
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Granite City · Council of Conservative
Citizens
Other
Berwyn · Brotherhood of Klans
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Joliet · Creativity Movement
Neo-Nazi
In Illinois Currently
Chicago · TCB Hate Crew
Racist Skinhead
Bloomington · Creativity Movement
Neo-Nazi
North Riverside · National Socialist
Movement
Neo-Nazi
Chicago · "Church of the
Restoration of Israel, The"
Christian Identity
Prospect Heights · Brotherhood of
Klans Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Chicago . American
Renaissance/New Century
Foundation
Other
Schiller Park · National Socialist
Movement
Neo-Nazi
Chicago · Council of Conservative
Citizens
Other
Springfield · Imperial Klans of America
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Chicago · National Alliance
Neo-Nazi
Troy · Brotherhood of Klans Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Tightrope
http://www.tightrope.cc/catalog/
A Really Disturbing Website
“The white men were roused by a
mere instinct of self-preservation...
until at last there had sprung into
existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a
veritable empire of the South, to
protect the Southern country.”
WOODROW WILSON
KKK