As a Result of Klu Klux Klan

"AS A RESULT OF THE KKK"

ABSTRACT

This project is about the violence and horrific efforts of the Ku Klux Klan.

This project will describe the rights of the African Americans, the wrong of

The Caucasians, the hatred of the Klan and the suffering that it created. This

Project will show that the Ku Klux Klan was for slavery and desegregation

For eternity.

Information for this project was secured from various sources including

books, newspapers and encyclopedias. Also included with the project will

Be a short documentary.

When the north won the war freedom came about. The African Americans

were confused at the situation, one slave even said to its master "I must go,

if I stay here I will never know I am free". In the time that they were free,

The Africans spent their time looking for husbands, wives, and children

that were sold as slaves before the war. The plans for reconstruction was

necessary to build state government. Yet some questions had to be answered

before these plans began such as "How could the Union make sure that the

rebels would be loyal"? and "How could the newly freed blacks find homes

and jobs"? Before the war the Northern leaders had a quarrel over these

questions. Northerners felt the southerners should be severely punished

because they feel that the war was a crime against America.

The congressman had organized the Freedman's Bureau the purpose was to

help the blacks to find work, food, and a good education.

The Bureau opened offices through out the south. It gave free meals and

medical help to the poor whites or blacks. It also worked as a court which

accused whites of violating the rights of blacks. Some white grocers refused

to sell to the black teachers and landlords would not rent rooms to the them.

But no matter what, the teachers arrived and schools were set up.

In 1867, The Freedmen's Bureau began trying to register blacks to vote.

The fourteenth amendment states that all citizens must be treated equally.

This meant that the black codes, which only applied to one race was

unconstitutional. Then in 1869 they created the fifteenth amendment which

states that it is against the law to deny a person a right to vote because of a

race. After that rule, Blanche Bruce was one of the first black members of

Congress and a Senator for Mississippi.

Southern whites hated the reconstruction government. These southerners

were denied the right to vote. They had to pay heavy taxes, or lost their

property as a result of certain reconstruction laws.

Whites resented that African Americans played a role in the government. A

few whites showed their feelings about the blacks taking over. So, they

joined an organization called the "Ku Klux Klan" in the