Opposition to Civil Rights: KKK and Violence
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- Created on: 07-05-19 18:28
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- Opposition to Civil Rights :KKK and Violence
- KKK
- Set up in 1865 after black slaves won their freedom
- Also attacked Jews, Catholics and Liberals but their most extreme hate was for black Americans
- Wanted to stop black Americans from gaining equality
- Terrorised black American families with intimidation and extreme violence
- They used lynching: Illegal execution by which a black person was hung and beaten, usually carried out by mobs
- Terrorised black American families with intimidation and extreme violence
- Operated in the southern states mostly
- Only White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP) could join
- Membership was secret so they wore hoods
- Many law enforcement officers were members or sympathetic to the Klan's aims
- Set up in 1865 after black slaves won their freedom
- Emmett Till
- 14, year old boy for Chicago visits his cousins in Mississippi in 1955
- After the trail black people continued to be murdered in Mississippi and the killers were rarely convicted
- Carolyn Bryant claimed that Till made sexual advances went he went into her store
- Till's cousins who were waiting outside said that Till only wolf whistled
- The following night Till was abducted and beaten severely by Bryant's husband and his half-brother
- The two men shot Till and threw him into a river with a weight around his neck
- Till's body was found three days later
- Till's mother had his body flown back to Chicago where she held an open casket funeral
- This led to extensive media coverage, fuelling widespread shock and outrage, whilst shedding light on the mistreatment of black Americans in the South
- The murder trail was reported worldwide
- The defendants were acquitted by an all white jury
- They later sold the story of how they murdered Till to a magazine
- This led to extensive media coverage, fuelling widespread shock and outrage, whilst shedding light on the mistreatment of black Americans in the South
- 14, year old boy for Chicago visits his cousins in Mississippi in 1955
- Media coverage of theses injustices led to public outcry and support and growth for the civil rights movement, spurring the federal government to come up with solutions
- NAACP leader, George W. Lee was murdered in 1955; his murder remains unsolved
- KKK
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