Resistance to Civil Rights in the 1920s PDF

Maria Clara Goncalves All for black people on a space “reserved” for them. A village just for black people, everything made to black people by black people. ...

Maria Clara Goncalves All for black people on a space “reserved” for them. A village just for black people, everything made to black people by black people. During the 1920s it focused on anti-immigrant, anti- Catholicism, and law enforcement. During the Reconstruction, it focused intimidating newly freed slaves and maintaining white supremacy. It varied by regions because of the differing local concerns and demographics.  People attacking others, women and people of color, lynching. Why the hate? Its just people like them, skin color and gander does not excuse the extreme behavior against others. Injustice, people being attacked innocently because of their skin color, while the white attackers who deserve to be prosecuted weren’t, because they are protected Is it just they are doing so well in their community? (when comes against crime The community they had to create because they were excluded from the white society. with black people). Another injustice being made, not even checking the veracity of the accusation made. One accusation on black people and whole lot of white people’s eye spark for Why not check if its true? Make sure the house was really the “justice”, for many things “assailant’s” house before shooting and killing innocent people, and why cause even more damage to the people around the that they didn’t even do. community, they for sure had nothing to do with the “incident”,.  Racist violence erupted in Rosewood, Florida which resulted in the destruction of the community and mass evacuation. The 1920s rise in KKK violence can be attributed to post- WWI social tensions, economic uncertainty, and the KKK’s exploitation of nativist and racist sentiments. GRAND MASTER FLORIDA KU KLUCKS. Sept. 20th 1920. Mr. W.R. O’Neal. Is that a warning? The Master of the Ku Klucks became known of what Mr. O’Neal has been doing in his city, “teaching” African Americans how to become American citizens. The Master then tells about how history repeats itself and they are known to do, and who interferes with the white supremacy must face the consequences. Hon. A. Mitchell Palmer Attorney General of the U.S. Washington D.C. Is he saying he can’t do anything about the KKK? That is inevitable? Negros had their houses burned down, they were killed, not eligible for suffrage. The evidences are there, it’s up to justice to decide what are they going to do. KKK is inevitable. Walter F. White. To the public. Why in some counties Negroes could vote? Supporting Negros’s suffrage was an offence, where you would be violented and ordered to leave town immediately. Negroes could not vote, and who attempted would be severally punished, as method and figuring out if they were eligible in some counties, they would ask their age, and because most were illiterate they wouldn’t know. All efforts were in by the KKK so Negroes wouldn’t be able to vote. To the African American families. Was justice ever made? The apologies of Government people to all the African American families who lost someone in the riot. The Government swears to never let any behavior of the sort happen ever again regardless od gender, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, origin, disability. NAACP anti-lynching Ku Klux Klan resurgence. campaigns. Harlem Renaissance “Red Summer” racial promoting African violence. American culture. The Chicago Defender Jim Crow laws enforcing fighting segregation. segregation. National Urban League Tulsa Race Massacre. improving economic conditions. Ida B. Wells’ activism Supreme Court upholding “white primary” laws.