PHOTO CREDITS: JAMES LOEWEN FOR ‘SUNDOWN TOWNS: A HIDDEN DIMENSION IN AMERICAN RACISM’
By Victor Trammell Photo credits: Hulton Archive/ Getty Images Racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and other White supremacist organizations such as the Knights of the White Camelia (which were formed in order to suppress Black economic and political rights in the South during Reconstruction) were established to impose the Black Codes and ...