Tuesday, September 27, 2011

The KKK and Southern Violence



In today's class we are looking at the worst of the Reconstruction. It really was a period of extensive violence and horrible behavior. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the White League terrorized the newly freed slaves and white carpetbaggers who came South after the war. Getting the U.S. back together was becoming seriously difficult.

Aftershock: The video we watched in class today