The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan In York County South Carolina 1865 1877

Author : Jerry Lee West
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786412587
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reconstruction Ku Klux Klan in York County, South Carolina, 1865-1877 written by Jerry Lee West and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reconstruction was meant to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South following the Civil War. But the Reconstruction, marked by the continued strong hatred and hostility between liberated African Americans and angry Ku Klux Klan members, was hardly a time of reconciliation for the South. This work deals with the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, a paramilitary group with political aims that used violence and intimidation to achieve its goals. It addresses exclusively the Klans activities in York County, South Carolina, during the years 1865-1877. It clarifies some misconceptions about the Reconstruction Klan and disentangles it from later organizations that used the same name. There are no reports of its burning crosses or persecuting Jews and Catholics and it has no connection to the Klan that appeared in the early part of the twentieth century or todays counterpart that marches under the Confederate flag. Throughout the Reconstruction, blacks and whites tried to out-shout each other in the new era of conversation, and, as shown in this work, made little progress in understanding, or trying to understand, each other.

Author : Everette Swinney
Publisher : Dissertations-G
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suppressing the Ku Klux Klan written by Everette Swinney and published by Dissertations-G. This book was released on 1987 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lou Falkner Williams
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820326593
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, 1871-1872 written by Lou Falkner Williams and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is remarkable that the most serious intervention by the federal government to protect the rights of its new African American citizens during Reconstruction (and well beyond) has not, until now, received systematic scholarly study. In The Great South Carolina Ku Klux Klan Trials, Lou Falkner Williams presents a comprehensive account of the events following the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the Reconstruction era. It is a gripping story--one that helps us better understand the limits of constitutional change in post-Civil War America and the failure of Reconstruction. The South Carolina Klan trials represent the culmination of the federal government's most substantial effort during Reconstruction to stop white violence and provide personal security for African Americans. Federal interventions, suspension of habeas corpus in nine counties, widespread undercover investigations, and highly publicized trials resulting in the conviction of several Klansmen are all detailed in Williams's study. When the trials began, the Supreme Court had yet to interpret the Fourteenth Amendment and the Enforcement Acts. Thus the fourth federal circuit court became a forum for constitutional experimentation as the prosecution and defense squared off to present their opposing views. The fate of the individual Klansmen was almost incidental to the larger constitutional issues in these celebrated trials. It was the federal judge's devotion to state-centered federalism--not a lack of concern for the Klan's victims--that kept them from embracing constitutional doctrine that would have fundamentally altered the nature of the Union. Placing the Klan trials in the context of postemancipation race relations, Williams shows that the Klan's campaign of terror in the upcountry reflected white determination to preserve prewar racial and social standards. Her analysis of Klan violence against women breaks new ground, revealing that white women were attacked to preserve traditional southern sexual mores, while crimes against black women were designed primarily to demonstrate white male supremacy. Well-written, cogently argued, and clearly presented, this comprehensive account of the Klan uprising in the South Carolina piedmont in the late 1860s and early 1870s makes a significant contribution to the history of Reconstruction and race relations in the United States.

Author : John Schreiner Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877 written by John Schreiner Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Lawrence Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Authentic History, Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1877 written by Susan Lawrence Davis and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Resistance to the Ku Klux Klan in the Wake of the Civil War written by Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Focusing on the years of the Reconstruction, this volume examines the actions of the Ku Klux Klan between the years of 1865 and 1899. It explores how the organization sponsored and promoted violence against former slaves, and how that violence eventually led to the formation of armed defensive units, which in some instances engaged in retaliatory action"--Provided by publisher.

Author : J. Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442215003
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coming for to Carry Me Home written by J. Michael Martinez and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming for to Carry Me Home examines the history of the politics surrounding U.S. race relations during the half century between the rise of the abolitionist movement in the 1830s and the dawn of the Jim Crow era in the 1880s. J. Michael Martinez argues that Abraham Lincoln and the Radical Republicans in Congress were the pivotal actors, albeit not the architects, that influenced this evolution. To understand how Lincoln and his contemporaries viewed race, Martinez first explains the origins of abolitionism and the tumultuous decade of the 1830s, when that generation of political leaders came of age. He then follows the trail through Reconstruction, Redemption, and the beginnings of legal segregation in the 1880s. This book addresses the central question of how and why the concept of race changed during this period.

Author : James Michael Martinez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742550780
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan written by James Michael Martinez and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In some places during Reconstruction, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a social fraternity whose members enjoyed sophomoric high jinks and homemade liquor. In other areas, the KKK was a paramilitary group intent on keeping former slaves away from white women and Republicans away from ballot boxes. South Carolina saw the worst Klan violence and, in 1871, President Grant sent federal troops under the command of Major Lewis Merrill to restore law and order. Merrill did not eradicate the Klan, but he arguably did more than any other person or entity to expose the identity of the Invisible Empire as a group of hooded, brutish, homegrown terrorists. In compiling evidence to prosecute the leading Klansmen and restoring at least a semblance of order to South Carolina, Merrill and his men demonstrated that the portrayal of the KKK as a chivalric organization was at best a myth and at worst a lie. Book jacket.

Author : John Schreiner Reynolds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reconstruction in South Carolina, 1865-1877 written by John Schreiner Reynolds and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allen W. Trelease
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180246
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Terror written by Allen W. Trelease and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allen W. Trelease’s White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to the Klan, Trelease discusses other night-riding groups, including the Ghouls, the White Brotherhood, and the Knights of the White Camellia. He treats the entire South state by state, details the close link between the Klan and the Democratic party, and recounts Republican efforts to resist the Klan. Winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award from the Southern Historical Association