Conclusion

In conclusion, the Ku Klux Klan had a very detrimental effect on the United States, especially in the 1920s. However, the statement must be made that the members of the Ku Klux Klan truly believed that they were doing the country a favor when they were ostracizing and tormenting so many African American people as well as Catholics and Jews. They had a mind set that it was most important for them to protect the United States from anyone who might put it in harm’s way. The Klan killed many people and left many others in fear, so their actions were not, and never should be, accepted or thought of as beneficial. Members of the Ku Klux Klan believed that they were right to kill and torment people of the African American race, as well as other groups such as Catholics, because the Klan believed that African Americans were detrimental to the United States.

Klansman Manual >> http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/clash/imm_kkk/KKK%20pages/Documents/klanmanual.htm

Blog 4 Post 2

Thesis: Members of the Ku Klux Klan believed that they were right to kill and torment people of the African American race because they were lesser than white people.

Outline
1. I will talk about the history of the KKK.
2. I will talk about WHY the KKK was so prevalent during the civil rights act.
3. I will talk about specific accounts of people during the KKK...from people supporting it and people against it.
4. I will talk about what made the KKK die down.
5. I will draw conclusions about what made members of the KKK feel so entitled to treating African Americans with such disgusting actions.

Blog 4 post 1

Works Cited


Blee, Kathleen, and Amy McDowell. "The duality of spectacle and secrecy: a case study of fraternalism in the 1920s US Ku Klux Klan." Ethnic & Racial Studies 36, no. 2 (February 2013): 249-265. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed May 6, 2013). << http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=23&sid=c179b3fc-edd3-4d5b-a4b6-94690d115ef1%40sessionmgr104&hid=108

Richard, Mark Paul. "'Why Don't You Be a Klansman?' Anglo-Canadian Support for the Ku Klux Klan Movement in 1920s New England." American Review Of Canadian Studies 40, no. 4 (Winter2010 2010): 508-516. Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost (accessed May 6, 2013). << http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=24&sid=c179b3fc-edd3-4d5b-a4b6-94690d115ef1%40sessionmgr104&hid=108

Sharpiro, Herbert. "The Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction: The South Carolina episode." The Journal of Negro History 49, no. 1 (January, 1964): 34-55. JSTOR (accessed May 6, 2013). << http://www.jstor.org/stable/2716475?seq=3

"The 20th Century Ku Klux Klan in America." Alabama Department of Archives and History. http://www.alabamamoments.state.al.us/sec46ps.html. Accessed May 6, 2013.


I know that the URLs are not supposed to be there for all of them, but that's so that I can easily get back to them :) I can get rid of them when I am done with the paper!

I changed my mind

I had chosen my final topic to be about FDR and The New Deal, however, I realized the sources are not what I thought they were, and there is not as much information as I had originally thought. I have decided to change my topic to the Ku Klux Klan. I changed my topic to the KKK because it is still very interesting to me and there is also more information about it. Though I know some about it already, I know that there is much more to know and learn.

New Sentence: I would be the writing about the role of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and it's involvement against the Civil Rights Movement in the earlier part of the 20th century.

Research Question: What was the reasoning behind the KKK when they were so caught up on rebelling against the Civil Rights Movement? Who did they think they were helping?

Some things I already knew about the KKK is that they wore all white and rode around on horses and burned crosses and hated African Americans. I know that many rich white people were especially apt to be a part or a leader of the KKK. I know that they were extremists and saw their view as the only right way to do things. I know that they were responsible for violence and harsh treatment. I definitely already have a mindset that they were all bad people with bad reasoning. However, while working on this blog and paper I will get rid of bias and just try to understand why they felt so strongly about going against the Civil Rights Movement.
 

Blog 3 Post 3

The topic I am choosing to write my paper about is Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in the New Deal from the 1930s.

New Sentence: I will be writing about Franklin D. Roosevelt's role in production of The New Deal during the Great Depression and the 1930s.

My research question is: How did FDR's production of the New Deal help America?

The New Deal focused on what is known as the 3 R's which stood for Relief, Recovery, and Reform. This idea came about in the midst of The Great Depression to try and make America better and make more jobs available. Some things I already knew about The New Deal mainly had to do with how it developed more jobs for people who did not have jobs. I know that one of the biggest things that it brought about was new roadways. It made travel easier when traveling in the US. Of course, the development of roads allowed for more jobs, and therefore, more money for people who were once jobless during the Great Depression. I suppose I do not have much bias, but I guess I do favor the decisions that FDR made about the New Deal. I do not think that I will have any issues writing a not biased paper.
 

Blog 3 Post 2: searching for sources

Susan B. Anthony: The Library databases had a few sources I could use as secondary sources for this topic. Most of articles I would have to get from interlibrary loans. Many of the sources and articles had a focus on the Women's Suffrage Movement, so I would probably have to rephrase my question, or just take a whole new route with Susan B. Anthony as a topic. I was able to find a primary source on Susan B. Anthony (http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/docs/sbatrial.html). This source is some of her accounts when she was on trial at the circuit courts. I believe I would have enough information to do this topic for my paper, I would just have to take a different route than I originally planned.

KKK: There is a plethora of information on the ku klux klan. Not only are there many articles and books available about the KKK, but there are also newspaper articles that I was able to find through the library database. There is so much information that this would be an incredibly easy topic to do my paper on. The one problem (if you can call it a problem) that I came across was the difficulty of finding a primary source for the KKK. I eventually found one (http://depts.washington.edu/labpics/repository/v/KKK/documents/). There are many different documents (mainly from the 1920s) that have been provided on this site. I think there is definitely more than enough information to be able to write a paper on this topic as well as give a presentation on it too. 

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Many of the sources I was able to find for Frankling D. Roosevelt involving the New Deal also had a great deal of democracy talk in it as well. There were about 70 articles that I could find that incorporated all of my criteria for FDR. So finding secondary sources definitely would not be an issue.There is a lot of information through the database, and I'm sure there is even more information in books in the library if this is the topic that I choose to do my paper on. I was able to find a few different primary sources on FDR...one of his public addresses is one of them (http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=75174), although I'm not sure if this would be my final choice if I choose to do FDR for my topic. This would be a fairly easy topic to find information on, but it also is the least interesting to me of all my topics.

Blog 3 Post 1

1. I would be writing about the role of Susan B. Anthony and her involvement in the Women's Rights Movement in the 1800s.
What gave her her motivation to seek out women's rights?
http://www.freedomshrine.com/historic-documents/susan-b-anthony-trial.php

2. I would be writing about the role of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and it's involvement against the Civil Right's Movement in the 20th Century.
Did the KKK really believe that they could put an end to the Civil Right's Movement and destroy all progress made to defy slavery and segregation?

3. I would be writing about the role of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the New Deal in the 1930s.
What was the big idea that went into implementing the New Deal?