They Called Themselves the KKK
They Called Themselves the K.K.K. by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a story about how the notorious group the K.K.K started in Pulaski Tennessee. Giving you mostly a political view of the group as it slowly becomes more frightening in the South. When historians try and figure out how it had all started, it is believed that it started as a social group who decided to play a joke and invade a friend's home and take all of their pillow cases and bed sheets so they could cover themselves with. They proceed to mount their horses and parade around the town in a panic to scare others which ended up as a hate group later.
A recurring theme I see is Hate and Destruction: North and South alike were full of hate during and after the war. The North thought that the South needed to be punished Many of the Northerners wanted control of the South to be sure that they "know their place." The South was full of hate and resentment because the North had ruined their finances The slaves made the plantations possible. The North took the slaves. The Emancipation Proclamation had stolen from them because slaves had been property for which they had paid and now had no more return on their investment.
