Racism Essay, Research Paper
Nazism
“Death seemed to guard all exits.” This motto defined the
death of millions of Europeans between 1941 and 1945. As
Nazi Germany gained control of one country after another in
World War II, there was much killing of civilians of
soldiers that can be classified as war crimes. These crimes,
however, pale in comparison to the massive, deliberate, and
well-planned extermination of more than 15 million persons
in what is called the Holocaust. This genocide of staggering
proportions was carried out with ?scrupulous efficiency? by
a well-coordinated German bureaucracy in which nothing was
left.
KU KLUX KLAN
The KKK was Organized in 1866 by Confederate veterans as a
social club in Pulaski,
Tenn., the Ku Klux Klan was restructured along political and
racial
lines a year later in Nashville, Tenn. Sometimes called the
?Invisible
Empire of the South?, the KKK, or the Klan, it was presided
over by a
grand wizard and a descending hierarchy of grand dragons,
titans, and
Cyclops?s. They took the name of the organization from the
Greek word
kyklos, meaning “circle,” and the English word clan. They
are usually
dressed in robes and hoods designed to frighten
superstitious victims
and to prevent identification by Federal troops; Klansmen
whipped and
killed freed slaves in nighttime raids. With intimidation
and threats,
Klansmen drove blacks and their white sympathizers out of
their
communities, destroying their crops and burning their houses
and barns.
Black Panther Party
Black Panther party, political party of African Americans
started in Alabama under SNCC 1965; militant black
nationalist California group organized in Oakland,
California 1966, opened overseas office in Algiers 1970.
The Black Panthers where a African American Political party
that believed tat they were being treated unfairly. The Afro
Americans did research and found legal weapons to carry
around the streets for protection. The Panthers were not
really dercriminating against Whites just have a similar
rivalry with whites but only retaliated if being attacked.
Bibliography
Biography
Nazi Information
CD-ROM Encyclapedia
1997 Edition
KKK Information
World Book Information
1998 Edition
Black Panther Information
Internet
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