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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