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They Called Themselves the K.K.K.

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by Susan Campbell Bartoletti


  Taylor, George, 78, 81–82, 134

  Taylor, Mack, 110

  Thirteenth Amendment, 3, 21–22

  Thompson, Lewis, 110

  Tinker, Mack, 82–83

  Tramblies, America, 97

  Turner, Nat, 111, 111

  Tutson, Samuel and Hannah, 85–88, 133

  Twiggs, H. D. D., 112

  Tyndall, Junius, 56

  U

  Union army

  black soldiers, 39, 121, 144

  casualties, 15, 30

  liberation of slaves, 3, 5, 10

  military rule in South, 36–37, 37, 39–40

  sweep through South, 2, 2–3, 15

  United States Congress. See also Republicans

  Amnesty Act, 142

  Civil Rights Act (1866), 22, 22, 59–60

  Civil Rights Act (1871), 129, 129–30

  Civil Rights Act (1964), 149

  Enforcement Act, 74

  Federal Hate Crimes Law, 149

  Fifteenth Amendment, 74, 75

  Fourteenth Amendment, 37, 59, 62, 129, 142–43

  Reconstruction Acts, 35–37, 37, 59–60

  Thirteenth Amendment, 3, 21–22

  Voting Rights Act, 149

  United States Supreme Court, 143

  V

  voting by blacks

  determination to vote, 68, 69

  fraud, 65

  legal restrictions on, 71

  political meetings, 64, 66, 108, 109–12, 113–14, 117–18

  Republican affiliation, 63, 65–66, 67, 115

  right to vote, 36–37, 40, 59, 60, 149

  violence against, 66–67, 142, 143, 145

  voting by Confederates, 18, 24, 38–39, 142

  Voting Rights Act, 149

  W

  Washington, Booker T., 96, 106

  white supremacy

  beliefs of Southern whites, 7, 10, 10, 22, 45, 83, 93

  in 1868 Democratic platform, 65

  in formation and rebirth of Ku Klux Klan, 35, 45–46, 147–49

  present-day hate groups, 149–50

  Williams, Jim, 121–25

  Williams, Mittie, 1–2, 7, 150

  Williams, Rosy, 126, 134

  worship. See churches

  Wyatt, William, 66

  Y

  Yankees. See Union army

  About the Author

  SUSAN CAMPBELL BARTOLETTI is the award-winning author of several books for young readers, including Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845–1850, winner of the Robert F. Sibert Medal. She lives in Moscow, Pennsylvania.

  Visit her website at www.scbartoletti.com

 

 

 


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