Booktalking Nonfiction by Jennifer Bromann-Bender

Author:Jennifer Bromann-Bender
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. 2010. They Called Themselves The K.K.K. New York: Houghton Mifflin. 172 p. 1180L

After the Thirteenth Amendment abolishing slavery was passed, there were some people that were still not happy about the outcome of the Civil War. They would attack black families, rob them, and sometimes kill them. There was even a group of six men who decided that more had to be done. And soon more people with the same beliefs joined them. They raided a linen closet and cut holes in sheets for their eyes and mouth and ran through the “streets, whooping and moaning and shrieking like ghosts. The Ku Klux Klan was born.” They had an abandoned house for a den and soon more dens sprang up. They would burst into the homes of black people at night and shoot at them. The Klan soon had over 550,000 men in every Confederate state. It was getting out of hand so President Grant signed the Civil Rights act of 1871, but that was counteracted by the Fourteenth Amendment. The Klan still exists today, holding marches across the United States, but crimes are prosecuted if Klansmen are caught. They Called Themselves the K.K.K. will take you through the history of the formation of this hate group.

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