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Emmett Till, national monuments, and teaching Black history
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Last week, President Joe Biden announced plans for new monuments to honor Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie. They will be erected in Mississippi where Till was murdered and at the church in Chicago where Till was laid to rest.
The designations come as states across the country are restricting how Black history can be taught in schools. At least 44 states have introduced legislation that would restrict how teachers discuss racism and racial issues in the classroom.
We assemble a panel of guests to discuss how the murder of Emmett Till catalyzed the civil rights movement, what significance these new national monuments hold, and why the teaching of Till’s story could be under threat.
The designations come as states across the country are restricting how Black history can be taught in schools. At least 44 states have introduced legislation that would restrict how teachers discuss racism and racial issues in the classroom.
We assemble a panel of guests to discuss how the murder of Emmett Till catalyzed the civil rights movement, what significance these new national monuments hold, and why the teaching of Till’s story could be under threat.
Emmett Till, national monuments, and teaching Black history
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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k.) ‘Ku Klux Kiddies’: The KKK’s Little-Known Youth Movement
During the 1920s, hatred was a family affair.
In 1924, a group of ten children and hundreds of spectators gathered for a mass baptism. This was no mere religious rite. As the children and their parents moved toward the clergyman, they were enveloped by 50 men in white robes.
They were the children of the Ku Klux Klan, and their baptism included more than a promise to God. Along with their vows to raise religious children, their parents dedicated their children to “the principles and ideals of Americanism.” To an outsider, that promise might sound like a patriotic one. But to the KKK, it meant dedicating the children to a lifetime upholding segregation, bigotry, and the violent suppression of anyone who was not a white Protestant.
The children who were christened that day were just a few of the thousands who participated in the KKK and its auxiliary organizations: the Junior Ku Klux Klan for teenage boys, the Tri-K-Klub for teenage girls, and “Ku Klux Kiddies” and “cradle clubs” for children and infants beginning in the 1920s. As the “Invisible Empire” of the KKK reached its pinnacle of national influence and membership during that era, children took part in the society’s rituals, and entire families dedicated themselves to promoting and sustaining the group’s white supremacist ideology.
In contrast to its original formation as a Southern terrorist organization during years of Reconstruction, the KKK of the 20th century invited, and encouraged, the involvement of women and children as part of its attempt to create a core of true believers who would ensure the supposed purity of the white race. After the release of the film Birth of a Nation in 1915, the Ku Klux Klan movement was revived and grew to encompass 3 to 8 million Klansmen by the mid-1920s. Members wanted to keep American society “pure” and free of the supposed taint of anyone who was not white and Protestant—and they believed the best way to achieve that goal was to involve the entire family.
Women played an important role in the KKK, which formed around a mission of “protecting” white women from sexual relationships and contact with black men, Catholics and Jews. Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke, PR professionals who took over the day-to-day operations of the KKK in the early 1920s, saw the potential of Klansmen’s wives. The pair soon realized that women, who could newly vote, not only yielded political power but could give much-needed cash to the organization, notes historian Michael Newton. Women’s groups soon sprang up all over the country, and in 1923, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan was created as an umbrella group, gaining 250,000 members within months.
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/news/kkk-youth-recruitment-1920s
kk.) PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING
[KKK group with children] (copy) digital file from original
About this Item
Title
* [KKK group with children] (copy)
Created / Published
* [between 1912 and 1930]
Headings
* Glass negatives.
Genre
* Glass negatives
Notes
* - Title devised by Library staff
* - Date from negatives in same range.
* - Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
* - General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
* - This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
* - Temp. note: Batch six
Library of Congress Control Number [login to see]
SOURCE : https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.27617/
kkk.) Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
SOURCE : https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AJRX5WUOH5ANCO8B
Indoctrination
** Is that a confederate flag on the sleeve on a klu-less/klutz/kreep uniform there on one of the historical well documented FACTS photos ?!?
We’ll say it ain’t so. **
Generation KKK executive producer Aengus James has defended the series saying the programme will “expose” Ku Klux Klan tactics and highlight members looking to leave the hate group.
US channel A&E has come under fire for ordering the controversial doc, which follows four prominent Klan families in states such as Mississippi and Georgia with members trying to escape the organisation.
As well as detailing their internal conflicts around KKK affiliation, the show will feature a group of peace activists helping members leave.
Grey’s Anatomy actor Ellen Pompeo has called for a boycott of A&E via Twitter, while author Olivia A. Cole suggested on social media that the programme legitimises the hate group.
SOURCE : https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/generation-kkk-producer-defends-series/5112454.article
k.) ‘Ku Klux Kiddies’: The KKK’s Little-Known Youth Movement
During the 1920s, hatred was a family affair.
In 1924, a group of ten children and hundreds of spectators gathered for a mass baptism. This was no mere religious rite. As the children and their parents moved toward the clergyman, they were enveloped by 50 men in white robes.
They were the children of the Ku Klux Klan, and their baptism included more than a promise to God. Along with their vows to raise religious children, their parents dedicated their children to “the principles and ideals of Americanism.” To an outsider, that promise might sound like a patriotic one. But to the KKK, it meant dedicating the children to a lifetime upholding segregation, bigotry, and the violent suppression of anyone who was not a white Protestant.
The children who were christened that day were just a few of the thousands who participated in the KKK and its auxiliary organizations: the Junior Ku Klux Klan for teenage boys, the Tri-K-Klub for teenage girls, and “Ku Klux Kiddies” and “cradle clubs” for children and infants beginning in the 1920s. As the “Invisible Empire” of the KKK reached its pinnacle of national influence and membership during that era, children took part in the society’s rituals, and entire families dedicated themselves to promoting and sustaining the group’s white supremacist ideology.
In contrast to its original formation as a Southern terrorist organization during years of Reconstruction, the KKK of the 20th century invited, and encouraged, the involvement of women and children as part of its attempt to create a core of true believers who would ensure the supposed purity of the white race. After the release of the film Birth of a Nation in 1915, the Ku Klux Klan movement was revived and grew to encompass 3 to 8 million Klansmen by the mid-1920s. Members wanted to keep American society “pure” and free of the supposed taint of anyone who was not white and Protestant—and they believed the best way to achieve that goal was to involve the entire family.
Women played an important role in the KKK, which formed around a mission of “protecting” white women from sexual relationships and contact with black men, Catholics and Jews. Elizabeth Tyler and Edward Young Clarke, PR professionals who took over the day-to-day operations of the KKK in the early 1920s, saw the potential of Klansmen’s wives. The pair soon realized that women, who could newly vote, not only yielded political power but could give much-needed cash to the organization, notes historian Michael Newton. Women’s groups soon sprang up all over the country, and in 1923, the Women of the Ku Klux Klan was created as an umbrella group, gaining 250,000 members within months.
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/news/kkk-youth-recruitment-1920s
kk.) PHOTO, PRINT, DRAWING
[KKK group with children] (copy) digital file from original
About this Item
Title
* [KKK group with children] (copy)
Created / Published
* [between 1912 and 1930]
Headings
* Glass negatives.
Genre
* Glass negatives
Notes
* - Title devised by Library staff
* - Date from negatives in same range.
* - Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947.
* - General information about the National Photo Company collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.npco
* - This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings.
* - Temp. note: Batch six
Library of Congress Control Number [login to see]
SOURCE : https://www.loc.gov/resource/npcc.27617/
kkk.) Child's Ku Klux Klan robe
SOURCE : https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AJRX5WUOH5ANCO8B
Indoctrination
** Is that a confederate flag on the sleeve on a klu-less/klutz/kreep uniform there on one of the historical well documented FACTS photos ?!?
We’ll say it ain’t so. **
Generation KKK executive producer Aengus James has defended the series saying the programme will “expose” Ku Klux Klan tactics and highlight members looking to leave the hate group.
US channel A&E has come under fire for ordering the controversial doc, which follows four prominent Klan families in states such as Mississippi and Georgia with members trying to escape the organisation.
As well as detailing their internal conflicts around KKK affiliation, the show will feature a group of peace activists helping members leave.
Grey’s Anatomy actor Ellen Pompeo has called for a boycott of A&E via Twitter, while author Olivia A. Cole suggested on social media that the programme legitimises the hate group.
SOURCE : https://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/generation-kkk-producer-defends-series/5112454.article
'Ku Klux Kiddies': The KKK's Little-Known Youth Movement | HISTORY
During the 1920s, hatred was a family affair.
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1.) NATIONAL
'Why Don't Y'all Let That Die?' Telling The Emmett Till Story In Mississippi
August 28, 20194:20 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
“John Whitten was 7 at the time and still sticks with the version of the story he learned back then.
"Fella who came down here and got in trouble — overstepped his bounds to a degree some folks thought," says Whitten. "And they cured him of his problems."
Whitten sees no reason to commemorate Till's slaying.”
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755024458/why-don-t-y-all-let-that-die-telling-the-emmett-till-story-in-mississippi
2.) 1955 August 28
Emmett Till is murdered
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
{ His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. }
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
Three days later two white men came in the middle of the night and took away Till at gunpoint. The men were Roy Bryant, the husband, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam.
Four days after that Till was found dead in the Tallahatchie River north of town, his head wired to a big, heavy cotton gin fan.
The body was sent back to Chicago to his mother. His face was gone, his head partly crushed, his left eye hanging out of its socket. Only a ring told her that it was her son.
His mother had an open casket funeral so that everyone could see the savage thing that had been done. Jet magazine printed pictures, pictures burned into the brain of probably every grown black American of the time.
1.) NATIONAL
'Why Don't Y'all Let That Die?' Telling The Emmett Till Story In Mississippi
August 28, 20194:20 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered
“John Whitten was 7 at the time and still sticks with the version of the story he learned back then.
"Fella who came down here and got in trouble — overstepped his bounds to a degree some folks thought," says Whitten. "And they cured him of his problems."
Whitten sees no reason to commemorate Till's slaying.”
SOURCE : https://www.npr.org/2019/08/28/755024458/why-don-t-y-all-let-that-die-telling-the-emmett-till-story-in-mississippi
2.) 1955 August 28
Emmett Till is murdered
On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier.
{ His assailants—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin fan to the bank of the Tallahatchie River and ordered him to take off his clothes. The two men then beat him nearly to death, gouged out his eye, shot him in the head and then threw his body, tied to the cotton gin fan with barbed wire, into the river. }
SOURCE : https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/the-death-of-emmett-till
Three days later two white men came in the middle of the night and took away Till at gunpoint. The men were Roy Bryant, the husband, and his half-brother, J.W. Milam.
Four days after that Till was found dead in the Tallahatchie River north of town, his head wired to a big, heavy cotton gin fan.
The body was sent back to Chicago to his mother. His face was gone, his head partly crushed, his left eye hanging out of its socket. Only a ring told her that it was her son.
His mother had an open casket funeral so that everyone could see the savage thing that had been done. Jet magazine printed pictures, pictures burned into the brain of probably every grown black American of the time.
'Why Don't Y'all Let That Die?' Telling The Emmett Till Story In Mississippi
Emmett Till's 1955 lynching propelled the civil rights movement, but telling his story underscores a reluctance for some in Mississippi "to come to grips with its history of racial brutality."
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