Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The second Ku Klux Klan was founded in 1915 by William Joseph Simmons at Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, with fifteen "charter members". [112] Its growth was based on a new anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic , Prohibitionist and anti-Semitic agenda, which reflected contemporary social tensions, particularly recent immigration.
Under Johnson's successor, President Ulysses S. Grant, Radical Republicans passed additional legislation to enforce civil rights, such as the Ku Klux Klan Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1875. However, continuing resistance to Reconstruction by Southern whites and its high cost contributed to its losing support in the North during the Grant ...
The May 27 edition of the Visalia Daily Times noted that Goshen residents “Bob Carson and George Rasmussen motored to Fresno Saturday evening to attend the Ku Klux Klan carnival.” The ...
Forrest was an early member of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), which was formed by six veterans of the Confederate Army in Pulaski, Tennessee, during the spring of 1866 [153] [154] [155] and soon expanded throughout the state and beyond. Forrest became involved sometime in late 1866 or early 1867.
In response to Radical Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) emerged in 1867 as a white-supremacist organization opposed to Black civil rights and Republican rule. President Ulysses Grant's vigorous enforcement of the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1870 shut down the Klan, and it disbanded. But from 1868 elections in many southern states were ...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) released a report on Thursday outlining the activity of the Ku Klux Klan members across the U.S. According to the report, the Ku Klux Klan movement in the United ...
Why a county where the Ku Klux Klan once operated should worry Trump today. ... In the years after the Civil War, when Union General William Tecumseh Sherman marched his troops to Georgia, Forsyth ...
The Enforcement Act of 1871 (17 Stat. 13), also known as the Ku Klux Klan Act, Third Enforcement Act, [1] Third Ku Klux Klan Act, [2] Civil Rights Act of 1871, or Force Act of 1871, [3] is an Act of the United States Congress that was intended to combat the paramilitary vigilantism of the Ku Klux Klan. The act made certain acts committed by ...