21 juillet 2021
The Editors, « “A burnt child fears the fire”: Ku Klux Violence against African American Children in the Reconstruction Era », HCA Graduate Blog, ID : 10670/1.3ferf8
By Max Gaida Although the American Civil War had officially ended, the following two decades of Reconstruction saw a surge of terroristic violence against emancipated African Americans of the South. The Ku Klux Klan, originally a loosely organized group of former Confederates, was and remains particularly infamous for the night-time attacks they often committed in disguise. Half a century after such a raid, Millie Bates, a witness to the attack, made the terror she had felt as a child palpa...