... the Ku Klux Klan, which is one of America's oldest and more feared, use violence and move above the law to promote their different causes. Another example is a group called Christian Identity, who describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic; and other are the Black Separatist groups, who are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Because ... occurring all across the nation and all around the world. People know this problem is persistent, pervasive, and serious. These violent crimes are happening in work places, communities and in s...

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... was still getting treated the same and had hard times wherever they go either North or South. Women also played a huge role in the tensions of the 1920's. The Women's Christian Temperance Union was the largest and most influential women's group of the 19th century by expanding its platform to campaign for labor laws, prison reform, and suffrage[ CITATION GDo0s l 1033 ... the United States. In the 1920's, a huge battle between fundamentalism vs modernism was happening. By 1929 five southern states had passed laws prohibiting the teaching of evolution in the public schools. Traditionalist...

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... this Klansmen were rarely arrested and if arrested Klan members were usually not convicted. With the rise of Klan members the Ku Klux Klan became bold and began targeting Freedom Schools. On Klan member even placed a bomb on the steps of a Baptist Church killing 4 little girls. This took place on September 15, 1963 and Robert Chambliss;the man responsible for the ... 4 girls death was not convicted until 1977. Klansmen burned African American homes and lynched African American businessmen. Klansmen even burned crosses as a way to oppose Christian ideas. Some Klansmen even killed African...

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... . During the scopes trial, a debate between fundamentalists in the rural south and the modernists of the northern cities, Fundamentalists were discredited by modernists, but the question of religion and public schools remained controversial and unresolved, even though Scopes was convicted. Prohibition was another controversy that helped to define the 1920s. This was a controversy that helped to provide definition to the 1920s ... election to state and local offices in Indiana and Texas. At first, the majority of native-born white Americans tolerated the Klan because it vowed to uphold hi...

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