Was Rutherford B. Hayes in the KKK?
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Not that I've done extensive research on Hayes, but, I would have to say, no. Hayes' journal and his emphasis on self-improvement in the journal, along with his strong favor for black suffrage as a congressman in 1867 all lead me to believe that the answer is, "no".
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If you are seeing people in sheets now, I'd be worrin' 'bout the KKK!
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No... He WAS a white American who freed the slaves
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I think he was.  Yea, he was a racist, but so was Lincoln.  He had slaves, but who didnt?  Its easy to judge him now out of context, but he was born and raised in Va since 1807, it was the way of life,so you cant judge him using today's standards.  It takes extraordinary people to go against popular belief, but just because you dont, doesnt make you a bad person.
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R.E. Lee wasn't a northerner, he was a Virginian that went with the South when 'his' state seceded.  After the war, he was apart of the union.  I think you're referring to the carpetbaggers, as the one above mentioned.
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KKK is a good start and the NEO_CON"s are another, Skinheads are another, Confederates are another. Republicans in general. It is legal Racism of the rights's Christian Church, they do it in the name of God.
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Why does the KKK burn any crosses at all, would be the better question! Why does the KKK even exist!
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The civil War and the wars of the twentieth century are definetly turning points in the growth of civil rights. For example the end of the civil war along with the 13TH amendment bring cahanges in America. During reconstruction blacks are protected by the Freedmens Bureau which helps them out toget their voting rights. During reconstruction thanks to this bureau and both carpetbaggers and scalawags the 14th and 15th amendments are passed which define citizenship and male suffrage.With the hayes-tilden election comes the crime of 77 which allows the KKK to take power in the south but not for long because president Grant enforces  a force bill which ends the klan, but not forever. Then in ww2 there were many riots because blacks weren't allowed to be mixed with whites. This created the civil rights movement with all kinds of awr taking place like the korean and vietnam. Sit ins and freedom riders would help the movement.
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hey, I'm all for that.  maybe if kkk, and my clone, redcatt69, didn't have such miserable lives and had someone to hug them, they wouldn't be so angry and pathetic!  hate is a pointless emotion...\n...love is the bomb!
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Confederate Flag was part of American history. Duh
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This practice started in the Ku klux Klan of the 1920s, NOT the post-Civil War Klan.  Originally, the Klan hated Jews as much as Blacks in the 1920s and the Klan saw themselves as defenders of Christianity.  Therefore to show Jews that they were going to "pay" for the murder of Christ, they would burn a cross on their lawn.  Therefore a burning cross made reference to teaching Jews a lesson.  Today the Klan will still burn crosses even to intimidate blacks, even though it doesn't make any sense to use a cross to intimidate blacks.  No one will ever accuse the Klan of being deep thinkers.
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Ignorance.......pure and simple ignorance!\n\nbut really-\n\nThe Red scare was partly responsible for the revival of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s!
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Ira Hayes.\nSad story\nhttp://www.thegoldweb.com/voices/irahayes.htm
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It had restricted membership and operates through a close circle of buddies.\n\nIt was not secret. It just did not advertise publicly.\n\nBy the way, the KKK is still active. Look up http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/klan.htm
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It's the name of a fraternal organization that advocate white supremacy, they're against Catholics and Jews, and foreigners.  They promote the use of terror and violence against minorities (most knowingly African Americans) as well as religious groups.  The original Ku Klux Klan was created after the end of the American Civil War. The name was constructed by combining the Greek "kyklos" (circle) with "clan."  \nHope it helped!
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Wait whose picture is that I use?  hmmmmm!\n\n\nI have to say a few thing Bedford Forrest did not start the KKK as we know it if you read his biography you will learn that to be true.  Burnside was a washout who destroyed the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg his actions at Antietam were even more of an embarrassment even though he had an open field he chose to make a fight over a useless bridge.  Thsi is such a hard question even for someone who is not a Southerner you have Stuart, Jackson, Lee, Gordon  and Cleburne to name but a few.  I guess I am going to have to say Gordan.\n\nAlthough the backbone of the Confederate Army's officer corps was composed of professional soldiers, many officers,including generals, were civilians turned soldier. Only a few of them gained the admiration of their professional brothers in arms. Gordon was one of these. Characterized by splendid audacity, in 1864, he was described by General Robert E. Lee in a letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis as being one of his best brigadiers. His rise, says his biographer, Ralph Lowell Eckert in John Brown Gordon, Soldier, Southerner, American, from captain to corps commander was unmatched in the Army of Northern Virginia. \n\nThe Company, which called itself the Raccoon Roughs, left Atlanta for Montgomery after Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown declared that Georgia had all the troops it needed and offered its services to the State of Alabama, which incorporated them into an extra large 6th Alabama infantry. In the 6th Alabama's first taste of combat at Seven Pines, the Raccoon Roughs suffered heavy casualties. During the subsequent Seven Days Battles, as Gordon strode fearlessly among his men, enemy balls shattered the handle of his pistol, pierced his canteen, and tore away part of the front of his coat. Assigned by General Lee to hold an essential position during the Battle of Sharpsburg, Gordon's luck ran out.. \n\nGordon's men were tremendously outnumbered. Their only hope, he decided, was for his men to hold their fire until the enemy troops were practically on top of them and then all fire at once. It worked. Their first volley downed almost the entire Yankee front line. Subsequent lines of Yankees met a similar fate. However, many Confederates, too, went down at what came to be called the Battle of Bloody Lane (a sunken road), including Gordon. First, a mini ball passed through his calf. He soldiered on. Then, a second ball hit him higher in the same leg. He soldiered on. A third ball went through his left arm. He continued to lead his men despite the fact that the muscles and tendons in his arm were mangled, and a small artery was severed by this ball. A forth ball hit him in his shoulder. Despite pleas he go to the rear, he continued to lead his men. He was finally stopped by a ball which hit him in the face, passing through his left cheek and out his jaw. He fell with his face in his cap and might have drowned in his own blood if there hadn't been a bullet hole in the cap. Nursed back to health by his wife, who stayed as near to him as possible until late in the war when, incapacitated by the birth of a baby, she ended up behind enemy lines in Virginia, he returned to duty and was put in command of six Georgia regiments. He was promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of Chancellorsville. \n\nAt the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Lee's greatly outnumbered army was threatened with being cut in two. Only Gordon and his men could prevent this from happening. Lee was prepared to lead the charge of Gordon's men when Gordon rode up and said, in a voice loud enough for his men to hear: "General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?" \n\n"No, no, no, we'll not fail him," the men cried. Then they took up the chant, "Lee to the rear," and Gordon seized Lee's
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This is the same man that said just the other day he wanted to kill all the Jews. So 24 hr latter he want to give us a peace branch. What would we say to the KKK if they pulled this one.