The Black Legion
>From the early 1870’s to the late 1920’s, the southern United States was ravaged with a racial hate group and secret brotherhood known as the Ku Klux Klan. At the time, the South was dominantly populated by ignorant and uneducated white people still clinging to the days of slavery. However, the enlighetened and progressive North had an even stranger organization terrorizing people during the 1930’s. Detroit, Michigan, the capitol of the automobile industry, was suffering from the Great Depression. What arose from this was a secret organization who also believed in violent tactics to achieve their goals. Similar to the KKK they wore hoods and robes, although, they wore black rather than white. The Black Legion had a broader agenda than the Ku Klux Klan. The Black Legion considered not only blacks, Jews and Catholics enemies but also welfare workers, welfare recipients and union organizers. This was during the Great Depression/New Deal era so many members were workers laid off and eager to lay blame and retalliate on others. "The native-born white people of America are menaced on every hand from above and below. If America is in the melting pot, the white people of Ameri
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Approximate Word count = 1725
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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