They Called Themselves the K.K.K.

Posted on 27 April 2018 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Boys, let us get up a club With those words, six restless young men raided the linens at a friend s mansion in 1866 They pulled white sheets over their heads, hopped on horses, and cavorted through the streets of Pulaski, Tennessee Soon, the six friends named their club the Ku Klux Klan and began patterning their initiations after fraternity rites, with passwords and mysterious handshakes All too quickly, this club would grow into the self proclaimed Invisible Empire, with secret dens spread across the South On their brutal raids, the nightriders would claim to be ghosts of Confederate soldiers and would use psychological and physical terror against former slaves who dared to vote, own land, attend school, or worship as they pleased.This is the story of how a secret terrorist group took root in America s democracy Filled with chilling and vivid personal accounts unearthed from oral histories, congressional documents, and other primary sources, this is a book to read and remember. Best Download [ They Called Themselves the K.K.K. ] Author [ Susan Campbell Bartoletti ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Perhaps the most striking aspect of Susan Campbell Bartoletti s They Called Themselves the K.K.K. is the plastic nature of history The Klan was first formed after the American Civil War, during a period known as the Reconstruction Essentially, the South was decimated and now the North was struggling to rebuild a united nation, one that would not be based on slavery it should be noted that the North was hardly as uniformly angelic as they sound Consequently, many Americans came to view Klan Perhaps the most striking aspect of Susan Campbell Bartoletti s They Called Themselves the K.K.K. is the plastic nature of history The Klan was first formed after the American Civil War, during a period known as the Reconstruction Essentially, the South was decimated and now the North was struggling to rebuild a united nation, one that would not be based on slavery it should be noted that the North was hardly as uniformly angelic as they sound Consequently, many Americans came to view Klan as the last defenders of the lost cause, a Southern resistance against the tyrannic social and economic regulations of the North.Can it be argued that some or most of these hooded villains were actually heroes resisting big government Bartoletti takes the time to illustrate that whatever these hooded white men thought they were defending themselves against, it was the freed people that had the m...Let us be very clear the KKK was a horrible group who committed terrible attrocities against other human beings That is exatly the point the author makes in this really important, but definately uncomfortable to read, book Bartoletti is unflinching in her assesment of the Klan what they did She writes, as she states in notes at the end of the book, to memorialize the victims of the Klan violence As awful as it is to read about the acts of the KKK, I personally think that understanding Let us be very clear the KKK was a horrible group who committed terrible attrocities against other human beings That is exatly the point the author makes in this really important, but definately uncomfortable to read, book Bartoletti is unflinching...I recommend this book on the basis of it s history The author does a very good job of remaining unbiased and uses a lot of direct quotes from people living in that time It s very well put together and easy to follow It also comes with a timeline in the back that lists all civil rights incidents from the civil war until current time which I thought was really interesting I cannot and...Absolutely fascinating but way too short There was a real opportunity here to delve deeper, to make important connections about the history of the KKK to the practices in our current justice system This islike an essay than a book, but its subject matter makes it well worth reading The KKK was formed to protect the right that Whites had always enjoyed over Blacks When black people were granted freedom, groups of those in the South, did their level best to keep the power where they thou Absolutely fascinating but way too short There was a real opportunity here to delve deeper, to make important connections about the history of the KKK to the practices in our current justice system This islike an essay than a book, but its subject matter makes it well worth reading The KKK was formed to protect the right that Whites had always enjoyed over ...This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers To view it, click here They Called Themselves the K.K.K by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a non fiction historical book, published in 2013, telling of how an American terrorist group became and went In my own opinion, I found the book to be really quite informative and it tells everything in a step by step way and even has a civil rights timeline telling of slavery and the Ku Klux Klan The timeline is the REAL step by step guide as it as it tells by the year In the timeline, one of them tells that in 1925, the Ku Kl They Called Themselves the K.K.K by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a non fiction historical book, published in 2013, telling of how an American terrorist group became and went In my own opinion, I found the book to be really quite informat...I learned a lot while listening to this book The author does a great job in laying out how the K.K.K was started and the start of their reign of terror in the south As you listen to the narrator you can sense the feelings from the individuals who were talking in the book and how the emotions affected them and their families They picked the perfect person to narrate this book Through his voice he puts you in the South throughout the book as he tells the story Campbell doesn t hold anything I learned a lot while listening to this book The author does a great job in laying out how the K.K.K was started and the start of their reign of terror in the south As you listen to the narrator you can sense the feelings from the individuals who were talking in the book and how the emotions affected them and their families They picked the perfect person to narrate this book Through his voice he puts you in the South throughout the book as he tells the story Campbell doesn t hold anything back in thi...History of how the KKK formed and the violence and terror that they carried out in the first years of Reconstruction Filled with eye witness accounts, historical documents and photographs this is a well researched history for a high school student.Why I picked it up Interesting title, wonderful reviews in the library literature and a topic that I wasn t that familiar with.Why I finished it I had to read this b...When I saw this book in the juvenile section of the library, I was immediately intrigued both by the title and the idea of how one explains the Klan honestly on a middle grade level Susan Campbell Bartoletti did not disappointment.While the most graphic of images from KKK history are wisely omitted, there are quotes and other images that accurately portray the racism and violence of the group Further, the author meticulously paints a picture of Reconstruction era South to give context to When I saw this book in the juvenile section of the library, I was immediately intrigued both by the title and the idea of how one explains the Klan honestly on a middle grade level Su...Bartoletti begins her narrative with the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, and quickly moves to the story of six former Confederate soldiers who hated and feared Union rule and the threat of racial equality What they began as a sort of fraternity in 1866 quickly morphed into a group that existed to bully freedpeople In later chapters, the focus shifts to horrible crimes perpetrated by Klansmen, and the experiences of their victims The final chapter and epilogue tell of Bartoletti begins her narrative with the end of the Civil War and the beginning of Reconstruction, and quickly moves to the story of six former Confederate soldiers who hated and feared Union rule and the threat of racial equality What they began as a sort of fraternity in 1866 quickly morphed into a group that existed to bully freedpeople In later chapters, the focus shifts to horr...I had the pleasure of hearing Susan Campbell Bartoletti speak a couple of years ago She called doing research an extreme sport Bartoletti writes this very succinct and comprehensible book about the history of the KKK where she includes the voices of those victimized and contextualizes America s terrorist group birth after the end of the Civil War I was shocked by how pervasive this group became so quickly and how the state government did so little to interfere I also was shocked by the res I had the pleasure of hearing Susan Campbell Bartoletti speak a couple of years ago She called doing research an extreme sport Bartoletti writes this very succinct and comprehensible book abou...

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27 April 2018

Susan Campbell Bartoletti