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The Ku Klux Klan was started as a social club by a bunch of confederates in 1865. They targeted blacks to employ the idea that there was still white supremacy over the blacks. They were violent towards blacks, and participated in terrorist raids, intimidation, ruining other people’s property and hurt and killed blacks in order to send a message. The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 led to nine South Carolina counties having more explicit law and many people being arrested. I find it interesting how something like the KKK could go on for so long. A couple more KKK groups formed later, one in 1910 in response to the new immigration laws, and another in the 1960s when the African-American Civil Rights Movement was going on. 

The Wilmington Race Riot happened on November 10th of 1898. It was over a contriveral lynching of an African AMerican Rapist that lived in Georgia two years prior. It was contriveral because there was a claim made that white men were equally likely to rape a black woman as a black man to a white woman. White men burnt down press and news offices of the Wilmington Daily Record. They also broke into the homes of African Americans. 11 people ended up dead. 

Booker T. Washington purpose was to take the next step and establish the first institute of higher education for the African-Americans. In 1892, it became an Independent College in Alabama It is a very unique place due to the fact that it was the only college to be given the title of a historic site by the US Congress. Currently it has more than 3,000 students and 70 buildings, coming a long way since when it was originally just an idea.

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