Give Me Liberty

A Response to Issue 1 Following the Civil War there was a rapid patterned advance of the role of African Americans in the fall in States. Reconstruction had given African Americans their freedom along with their rights to vote, own land, and even hold positions in might. numerous historians would soon report about the great success Reconstruction lay down in the United States for the African American passage in obtaining their civil rights. even so though America had created a society where every(prenominal) men were equal in the eyes of the law, great racism still lingered at bottom many whites.The lack of protection a crystalizest racial crimes upon the African American race became very apparent as white supremacy began to rise. Massacres took place, slaying stacks of disastrous men for peacefully doing what the U. S. government clearly permitted them to do. I deal Reconstruction did fail, due not to racism of the country as a whole, but to racism in some white citize ns who were reluctant to digest change in the social standing of the black man. African Americans began to gain equal standing in politics and were holding positions in office all over the United States.As this happened, many white men started to dun against the Negro Rule, forming white supremacy clans that would soon rise up against all African Americans alike. The largest of these clans was known as the Old Time Ku Klux Klan which began to rebellion against the Radical Reconstruction of the United States. In many cases the KKK killed law unchangeable black land owners. In one case an African American man was even reportedly peacefully building a contend around his land when the men shot him dead. The clansmen were known to then make haven in the African Americans homes, exhaust all supplies of food and resources and then ride on to their next destination. In the townsfolk of Colfax, Louisiana the Grant Parish courthouse became the site of the largest racial massacre in Unit ed States history. Here a group of men decided to make a stand against the clan. After much anticipation the Ku Klux Klan surrounded the courthouse in battle-like formations, and briefly after, the battle began. The group in defense of the courthouse were outnumbered and out armed.The clan reportedly scattered the defense with cannon fire, at which time many of them travel into the courthouse. One African American that was captured during his attempt to flee was held at power point and forced to light flame to the roof of the courthouse in which his fellow defensemen had bunkered in retreat. Some captured African Americans were hung while others forced to retrieve men from the yearning courthouse. All of the men that were captured were eventually killed, and some reported various untamed acts to the dead mens bodies and family members.To this day, no greater racial cleansing has ever taken place. This account is a prime, even though around extreme, example of the great amount of racism that persisted throughout the United States during Reconstruction. Even though the law allowed African Americans to have equal civil rights as white men it did not protect them from the racism that was directed towards them. payable to this many white men sought out to strip the black man of their unalienable rights, many of which succeeded.