what was the largest & most effective of the white terror organizations?

Question

that operated in the south in the 1860s and 1870s?

Answer 1

Night-riding groups across the United States, especially the southern part of the country, terrorized black people and whites who supported civil rights efforts during Reconstruction and continuing, in one form or another, from the 1860s through to the 1960s. Beginning in 1867 after the American Civil War in the United States, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), the most famous of the night-riding groups, "whipped, shot, hanged, robbed, raped and otherwise outraged Negroes and Republicans across the South in the name of preserving white civilization."

White terror did not end--as some blacks had hoped--with the disfranchisement of southern black men. To enforce the new legal order of segregation, southern whites often resorted to even more brutalizing acts of mob terror, including race riots and ritualized lynching, than had been practiced even by the old Klan of the 1870s. Some historians see this extremely brutal and near epidemic commitment to white supremacy as breaking with the South's more laissez-faire and paternalistic past. Others view this "new order" as a more rigid continuation of the "cult of whiteness" at work in the South since the end of the Civil War. Both perspectives agree, however, that the 1890s ushered in a more formally racist South--one in which white supremacists used law and mob terror to deprive blacks of the vote and to define them in life and popular culture as an inferior people.

Answer 2

The White House

Answer 3

Black Reconstructionists from 1860 through 1880.

Answer 4

you would probably think the KKK but they are not as prevalent now as they once were. check out
Aryan nation
skin heads
Neo-Nazi groups of the United States
Aryan Brotherhood
White Patriot Party
American Nazi Party
National Alliance

Answer 5

i would think the kkk but im not so sure,there were a couple,but as far as i know the kkk struck terror and was very effective

Answer 6

umm... the ku klux klan? also originally known as the kights of the white cammellia

Answer 7

I would venture to say the KKK

Answer 8

Klu Klux Klan..................KKK.....................

Answer 9

KKK

Answer 10

KKK