Formed in 1865 as a “secret lodge” by former Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee, the Invisible Empire or Ku Klux Klan (KKK) has been and remains committed to white supremacy in America.
Klansmen, beside other diehard groups, violently resisted Reconstruction. Still defending the South, they fought Union Army occupation, Republican governments, and blacks’ freedom. Donning hoods and using secret titles, they took an oath to defend Christianity, the Constitution, and the white race, especially their women's purity. Loyal to the Democratic Party, the Klan enlisted men and women from all classes. Targeting Union Leagues (freedmen's political clubs), night riders harassed and often killed black and Republican voters and officeholders, burned black churches and schools, intimidated teachers, and stole elections. In the 1868 elections, alongside Knights of the White Camellia, they murdered 1,000 black and white Republicans in Louisiana alone. After its investigation, Congress passed the Ku Klux Act (1871). But undermanned Union garrisons rarely stopped the Klan's plunder. Its terrorism during the election of 1876 hastened Reconstruction's end.
Between 1877 and 1910 the KKK fueled Democrats’ push to establish one-party rule and Jim Crow. A coalition of Democrats, Klansmen, Red Shirts, Rifle Clubs, and White Leagues targeted freedmen and their allies, utilizing ballot fraud, intimidation, and murder. Some 1,751 blacks were lynched in southern and border states ca. 1882–1900 as black and white farmers’ alliances and the Populist Party coalesced for reform. Defeat of populists by ballot-rigging and terror enabled Democrats, as the Supreme Court instituted the “separate but equal” rule, to enact Jim Crow. The system disfranchised and terrorized blacks; it also persecuted Jews, Catholics, and nonwhite immigrants.
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@whisperboyuk@ag_0012 Did have a lot more before some crying liberal bitch had me blocked and they screwed up my account. Truth be known couldn’t care less about followers. Just stating my opinion on a f’ed up society. Period
A mom killed her newborn by putting her in a hot oven — but was not convicted of murder.
Mariah Thomas will spend 13 years behind bars after pleading guilty to child endangerment resulting in death. She told family members she mistakenly put the baby in an oven instead of a crib for her nap.
Her first-degree murder charge was dismissed as part of the plea deal.
Read the full story for the tragic details revealed by the investigation and court records: https://t.co/maMGDq4h37
@1776General_ All states must have right to carry for sensible gun owners. Maybe if more people stand their ground and fight back and after some of these thugs end up in caskets. They just might think twice.
@JFK_Jr_PRD She looks like she’s 12. I would think she was warned. And if she defied that then yes she should be fired. Hopefully she won’t be hired to teach again.