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A review by braddy7
They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
4.0
In 2023, I am working my way through lists of books that have been removed from libraries. My end goal is to understand why. Some books are easier than others to understand why the ideas contained in the book may have been offensive. This one ☝️ not so much. The history is solid and uses primary source material as it tells the terrifying story of the black experience under the rule of the KKK.
“Some white Southerners didn’t oppose education for the freed people, but they did object to the school’s curriculum, saying undermined the notion of white supremacy. They complained that Northern teachers and missionaries taught subjects such as geography and history from a Yankee point of view and that they filled their lessons with radical equality.”
Radical equality
“Some white Southerners didn’t oppose education for the freed people, but they did object to the school’s curriculum, saying undermined the notion of white supremacy. They complained that Northern teachers and missionaries taught subjects such as geography and history from a Yankee point of view and that they filled their lessons with radical equality.”
Radical equality