JOEL CONSUEGRA SILVA

JOEL CONSUEGRA
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TOPICS:
ku klux klan
Jim crow
carpetbaggers

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ku klux klan or kuklos that in derived from the Greek word kyklos,
meaning circle was a organization that was born after the civil war in
1866 in tennessee , during the reconstruction in the country, put into
place by the more radical members of the Republican Party in Congress.
Its leader was Nathan Bedford Forrest one former general of the south
country, the organization was form for important white people that
belonged at south of the country. This organization had killed, tortured,
hanged to black people. But after of the killed to George Ashburn in
Columbus the violence and death increase. However the kuklos was
dissolved when the president was Ulysses Grant, he made a civil rights
act in 1871, some people know it as the ku klux klan act. Then in the
twenty century the klan raised again with 6 millions of people in this
case they hated and killed to catholics, Jews, immigrants, homosexuals,
also they burned crosses as protest but with the world war two the ku
klux klan was disappearing. Actually the group still exists but it doesnt
the force enough

Jim crow
was a white actor in half of the nineteenth century ,he painted his face
as a black person, his name was used for laws that discriminate against
black people this laws had avoided the civil right of black people. Jim
crow appear in reconstruction time when white people took power in the
south country again. In the elections the white people hit and intimidate
to black people, so they couldnt vote. Many black people fought in the
Supreme Court but they didn't find solution because the Supreme Court
only was white people as jury. The black people were separated of the
white people in school high school transportation business for example
black people couldn't marry, the nurse couldn't care them, could not sit
on the buses, and not vote in the elections. The 50s and 60s appear a
important person for black people Martin Luther King with his groups and
protest for defense to civil right, then achieved put finish to the
discrimination and separation of people and put the civil right of black

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people of 1964, the new law prohibit the discrimination of black people
in different places

carpetbaggers
was a group that born in the north of country after the civil war and the
13 amendment, in order to profit from the instability that existed at this
time in the south of country, this group of white people help to all black
people that didn't had place for live or not had some owner also they
helped to white people that suffered damage after the civil war, they
were teacher, lawyer, trader, journalist, priest, etc .however the people
that live in south of country were disagree because they thought that
the carpetbaggers only wanted political office or abuse of power. They
thought it because some people of north of country had enriched
themselves with political office and had wronged to people that live in
the south of country as poor people. For this reason after time the group
ku Klux klan araised for fought against north of country and black people