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- Collection: Postwar United States
Ku Klux Klan, Broadsides, 1966 and 1967
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK), or the Klan, is an extremist organization that promotes white supremacy and “100 percent Americanism.” The Klan experienced three distinct periods of power in the United States: during Reconstruction (1865–1870s), between the…
Evelyn Butts Challenged the Poll Tax, Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk), 1966
From late in the 19th century until the middle of the 1960s, Virginia's white authorities tried to keep Black citizens from full participation in government and society. The Virginia state constitution adopted in 1902 reinstituted a poll tax as a…
Lesson Plan — Civil Rights Protests, Danville, 1963
Danville does not commonly appear in the general narrative of civil rights protests and police brutality, but the city was the site of the most aggressive reaction to a peaceful civil rights protest in Virginia. In the 1960s, Danville was a small…