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The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War (April 12, 1861 - April 9, 1865) and was dominated by the legal, social, and political challenges of the abolition of slavery and the reintegration of the eleven former Confederate States into the United States.
The Reconstruction era in the state of South Carolina after the American Civil War featured involvement of both scalawags and newly freed African American slaves. Land ownership was seen as an important aspect of freedom for African-Americans in South Carolina and the South Carolina Land Commission was created during the 1868 South Carolina Constitutional Convention. [1]
Retreat from Reconstruction, 1869-1879 (Louisiana pbk. ed.). Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 0-8071-1006-X. OCLC 8757916. Williams, Lou Falkner (1993). "The Constitution and the Ku Klux Klan on Trial: Federal Enforcement and Local Resistance in South Carolina, 1871-1872". Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History.
During the "second era", the KKK movement saw the rise and decline of one of the largest and most influential Klan factions, the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan Inc. There were a few splinter groups, though, such as the Knights of the Flaming Sword, founded by ousted Imperial Wizard William J. Simmons and the Independent Klan of America, founded by ...
Six Confederate veterans from Pulaski, Tennessee, created the First Ku Klux Klan on December 24, 1865, during the Reconstruction of the South. [66] [67] The group was known for a short time as the "Kuklux Clan".
Between September 1923 and February 1924, Dan Moody led Williamson County’s prosecution against four Klan members — yet hardly anyone knows about it.
Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a 19th-century American slave trader active in the lower Mississippi River valley, a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. He was a founding member and the first Grand Wizard of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan, serving from 1867 to 1869.
Students in South Carolina were given an assignment where they were asked to imagine what it would be like being a member of the KKK in the Civil War. 5th grade teacher on leave after giving KKK ...