jul 6, 1861 - John Hope Franklin
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John Hope Franklin was an American historian of the United States and former president of Phi Beta Kappa, the Organization of American Historians, the American Historical Association, and the Southern Historical Association. He believed that over a quarter of a million slaves were imported before the civil war started in 1861. The US was not alone in their use of slaves. A law was passed in 1808 the restricted the amount of slaves that were imported but because of the demand of slaves, because they were free labor the law was often broken.
White violence against blacks erupted in the
South almost as soon as the war ended. In May
1866, in Memphis, Tennessee, whites killed forty-six African Americans and burned more than a hundred homes, churches, and schools. The violence continued as white terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan organized raids, beatings, and racial murders called lynchings. The state of Kentucky alone had 116 acts of racial violence between 1867 and 1871.
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