the first ku klux klan has ceased to exist it is believed that since 1971, their activities have beenely stopped, that is, individual cells existed in the eighties and nineties. why did it happen? it is not known that the next corn will appear only in 1915, but it will become a very massive organization. and where at the peak, uh, the number, which at the peaks will reach six eight million people, it will be an organization of a general national level, but returning to the first piece of the clan, it is also important to say that, of course, it was accepted. here is the civil rights act in 2018 first year. we have adopted laws in a number of southern states. well well known. how do we like the laws of the crow press, which actually ended it, legalized aggregation. well, that is, blacks could not use white public transport there, or occupy only certain places, and there, respectively restriction for visiting the company's stores to the extent that the situation came to the point that there were toilets for men and women, nothing and these laws of extraction crow and they are in general

in the u.s., you looked at how some 5 million ordinary protestant men joined the ku klux klan in thee parallels to toda nancy: yes, amy, and give the chills. sadly, the book is getting a second live all of these years later. ordinary americans see the parallels. donald trump has been this -- this radicalized republican party has breathed into these white supremacist, white national forces. it is no longer the ku klux klan at the forefront, but we see the proud boys, oath keepers, three presenters, all of these freelance militias who are committed to a set of ideas very much like those of the ku klux klan of the 1920's, and milder forms of which are embraced by this maga faction of the republican party, namely the idea that only certain people are legitimate americans. particularly white to class christians. that are the people do not belong. that they are there on suffrage -- sufferance. that white christian americans have the right to run the country, have the right to drive others out or subdue them, have the right to dictate, and that that is somehow god-given, and those elements

april 1871 got the ku klux and ku klux klan act passed. and what the clan act enabled the president united states to do was to in cases where southern states were not protecting black citizens from harassment or violence gave the president the power to declare martial law. to spend the rate of heaviest corpus and to send in federal troops. these were obviously very extreme measures. grant had to take them a number of times. there was finally a loss of northern support, you know for doing this it was a kind of as a tragic situation, but grant crushed the clan and the clan that unfortunately is still with us in various forms. that was from the revival of the clan in the 19 teens and the 1920s and the imitated a lot of the clothes the symbols the ideology of the original plan, but the original ku klux klan was crushed by ulysses s grant. yeah. brian did you merge with the same conviction about grant as president? research i did and some of the earlier biographies or even articles were focusing mostly on grant's general. so he really hadn't gi

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nathan bedford forrest was the first member of the ku klux klan. he led the massacre of black union soldiers who had already surrendered. he is someone who was ardent in his beliefs of white supremacist as he. and this bust of him was put in the tennessee state legislature in 1978. that 1870 -- not 1878. there is no way to understand -- that is like when i talk about the relationship between public policy and symbolism. putting up a bust of the first grand wizard of the ku klux klan and confederate army general, there is no way to understand that without having it reflect a set of ideologies, priorities and policies that would be pushed and espoused and advocated by people whose interest is, in some ways, represented by the head of this man they intentionally placed in the space. host: let's hear from don from new orleans. go ahead. caller: love the book festival, love c-span and the library of congress peered we need to have more books to read. i have the issue of slavery, and we talk about thomas jefferson and his dominance of the african people,

and the question be if the ku klux klansman said the ku klux klansman student said that my values rising luther king jr made him feel bad. i say to the person, well, fine, you've told me that you feel bad. i'm am i going to apologize for feeling bad? am i going to back off of what i said? no. martin luther king, jr was one of the great people in the history of the world. and as for your feeling bad, you ought to rethink your about that. okay, morgan, can i get one more? is that okay? yeah, sure. okay. one more. one more. thank us so much for making space and thank you so much, morgan, for like always creating like robust spaces for us to actually engage in, in real ways. so this is, this is actually this last question. when the blacks student challenges the teacher on the use of the word --, they are challenging the system via the teacher who is a representative of a racialized system and is also in a position of power. why do we continue to individualize situations that are clearly about bigger issues of racism? well, i mean, yeah. i mean. systems, organizations, forces work through peo

i joined the ku klux klan at the time because this was a huge recruitment tool for the two ku klux klan. i can do that. similarly, this is a recruitment tool for the pro-trump wing of the republican party. and for more broadly outside of electoral politics, just a kind of renaissance of white nationalism, which never went anywhere. we just got much more energized in this moment. yeah, i'm tired. mentioned marc just a moment ago. james baldwin and you write about the rise of the influencer as a byproduct of social media. and you make the point that way before there was youtube and there was instagram. there was james baldwin can you talk about why he is such a seminal figure? not only as a novelist and an activist, but from the 20th century, but why he is transcendent and still so relevant even in the 21st. it's an interesting question, and this is actually an idea that had kind of brought to me as we were talking through it. so i'd love to hear your thoughts on this as well. but i mean, this is an interesting moment for twitter in the post-ferguson moment, the ferguson uprisings of 2014

. >>> a 1960s plaque emblazoned with the words ku klux klan, no, it's not a hidden historical relic of, that plaque is still hanging outside the science building at west point. now, the congressional naming commission wants the pentagon to include kkk memorabilia in its efforts to identify and rename confederate markers in military institutions. cnn's nadia romero reports on the obstacles blocking change at this site and others. >> a new school year brings new hope in the years-long fight to change a trio of names that loom over this building and two others in montgomery, alabama. robert e. lee, jefferson davis, and sydney lanier high schools. melvin brown grew up in robert e. lee's hometown. today he's the superintendsant of schools, just weeks into his tenure, he's intent on seeing the names go. >> what do you say to those who believe we're trying to erase history. >> the gentleman for whom this building is constructed and names was a brilliant military tactician. at the same time, he was a slaver. at the same time, he led a rebellion against his own cou country. >> the montgomery ba

chanted, literally the same anti-semitic bile chanted in germany in the 30's, accompanied by the ku klux klan, the guy that i beat in this last election, when i asked, he said there are really fine people on both sides. something is really wrong. something has changed and that's when i talked to tom about helping me out and decided to help me out. here's where i think we are and i'm going to be brief. the fact is, i think there are periods in history where we reach certain inflection points where everything that's going to come after is going to change what has been before for the next generation. we are at one of those points. it happens every six or eight generations. things are changing and changing rapidly. you see everything from what is happening in europe and india to russia, china, things are changing. the united states has to regain its footing and remember who we are. one of the things i concluded was those inflection points are the places where you look back 2, 5, 10 years later and realize it's not what it was before. it's either better or worse than it was before, not the sa

can you imagine as far as the ku klux? >> and i-35 year-old woman is going to get take they can. lafayette rose was killed in a crash just weeks before she was set to testify in court or let us as the was speculation at the time that the crash wasn't an accident. and rose was targeted by white-supremacist rosa bell, who was only 13 at the time was forced to stand in for her mom bike in boulder county to testify in the civil rights case and that bravery recognized and celebrated one more break probably means the pool was closed during the court battle. never reopen 2 decades later, the city of bilby book i burger rec center in its place. >> 2019 local leaders made the swimming center. the rosen went out. cool story that not only moved mister vargas shed light on the part of these old family's history. he almost never learned. we have no back story. we did not know what happened close it as is his great, great grandmother does will also help rose's story sad to look back on. but it's also brings a sense of pride that. >> my ancestors. >> stood up to for civil rights and today with

sergei puppy dmitry lukashevich galina orlova elizaveta beryozkina, northwestern bureau spring the ku kluxioner alla nikolaevna for several years lives outside the city, but she often needs to travel to moscow on business. what is there to do? i have an apartment in moscow. regional polyclinic in moscow . i need to see an apartment to rent counters. i need to get to the district doctor, who prescribes free medicines, to take the train at the rastorguevo station, ali nikolaevna . it’s hot in summer, it’s hard in winter, it’s cold and there are steps on the stairs and snow-covered ice-covered is a disaster. rastorguevo station is considered one of the busiest in the paveletsky direction near the city of vidnoye and in the future it may become part of the mcd5 global transport project . i am sure that it will be one of the most difficult, but on the other hand the most convenient for people. this is the route that will connect yaroslavskaya paveletskoe, the direction of the moscow railway, that is, it will pass conditionally from domodedovo to pushkino the main intrigue. how will mcd-5 go aft

she presented a ku klux klan rally in 1926 and recounted, that vent if her autobiography, saying a acceptedtation to talk to the women's branch of the klan. i was escorted to platform, and began to speak in the end, i believed i had accomplished by purpose. a dozena does a -- liletter in 1939, she wrote: >> her own words. leave no room for parsing, she wrote many articles about ugenics and journal she founded in "1917". that review moral aspects of eu. >> and purpose of it. bird cbirth control. she was a horrific racist. not until a year ago. that planned parenthood and other apologists for sanger threw in the towel. said yes she was a eugensift . look how democrat party and radical left runs with it. 79% of planned parenthood abortion activity takes place in minority neighborhoods. mosmostly black neighborhoods, this is the history of that organization of the radical abortion movement. this is the history of the democrat party. you want to talk about race? and abortion? let's do it. i'll be right back. when pain says, “i'm here,” i say, “so are they.” ♪ aleve - who do you take it for? mark

the general who had crushed the powers sustaining slavery became the president who crushed the ku klux klan. the age of grant was the age of a multiracial american republic tragically a generation after his presidency a new era of jim crow's disfranchisement undid much of his work. but enough of the legal architecture grant helped to build for the protection of equal rights survived to enable the achievements of the civil rights movement of the 20th century. it is past time that we remember him with a recognition long overdue as a founding father of our multiracial republic. grants presidency had plenty of other achievements in our brief time here. i will mention just one. president grant's successful settlement of a highly contentious dispute known as the alabama claims with great britain established the principle of international arbitration for the resolution of disputes between nations involving questions of paramount importance leading to several organized efforts that promoted alternatives to war. the general who had mastered the art of war became the president who worked to adva

states, resulted in over zurich thousandst sterilizations of vul first f vulnerable people and a ku kluxlly. she set i accepted anta invitation to talk ttio the women's branch of the klan, i saw through the door dim. i was introduced and began to speak, i believed ize accomplished my purpose. a dozen in in invitation to speaks too similar groups were proffered. and sanger also rote, we don't want word to go out we want toi exterminate them negro population, she wrote many articles about eugenics and journal she founded in " "1917", her articles include moral aspects of eugenics, and birth control and positive eugenics, and the true eugenics to name a few, she was a horrific racist.no there wasn't until a year ago, that planned parenthoodlann and other apologists for sanger threw in the towel, said yes, she was a eugenist, she pushed abortion issue in the united states and look how the democrat party and radical left runs with it. 79% of planned parenthood abortion activity takes place in minority neighborhoods. mostly black neighborhoods. this is the history of thathb organizationor. the

no you can't be a member of the ku klux klan.an't be a member of an organization that supports the overflow throe of the u.s. government. >> reporter: while the number found to be associated with the oath keep sers small compared to number of police and defense specialists neigh nationwide, even a small group can be dangerous. >> you can't have people who go to work done 1 day at one place with an oath to defend the constitution and the united states, and the next day as part of an outside group are trying to overthrow the same. >> pamela, it's important to note the adl says there are some limitations to their findings. for example, it's impossible to tell whether people who allegedly joined the oath keepers prior to 2021 continue to be members to do this day. but adl analysts and other national security analyst says this data about military and law enforcement officials provides an important snapshot into the types of individuals these extremist groups are trying to rec recruit, and why it's so important for military and law enf

we think about jim crow, even before jim crow laws this is where the ku klux klan came from.hey would chase blacks away from voting sites. sometimes shoot and kill them. blacks were lynched, you know? there were bodies of blacks found along roadways four years early in reconstruction. the reason for northern republicans finally giving up on trying to bring blacks more into national political fabric is they wanted to move on to other issues. for a couple of decades republicans kept trying to pass laws that would overrule what's southerners were doing with voting rights or whatever. it kept failing. it would either not pass or get filibustered. i think northern republicans finally got exhausted by the effort. i'm not sure that there is a lot that could've been done to avoid what happened with jim crow, short of an even heavier hand by the u.s. government. >> this is maybe a good time about vice presidential selection. given the rather disastrous choice, in retrospect, that abraham lincoln made in selecting andrew johnson as part of a ticket balancing act here, wanting to appeas

can you imagine as far as the ku klux? >> and i-35 year-old woman is going to get take they can. was killed in a crash just weeks before she was set to testify in court or let it says there was speculation at the time that the crash wasn't an accident. and rose was targeted by white-supremacist rosa bell, who was only 13 at the time was forced to stand in for her mom bike in boulder county to testify in the civil rights case and that bravery recognized and celebrated one more break probably means the pool was closed during the court battle. never reopen decades later, the city of bilby book i burger rec center in its place. >> 2019 local leaders made the swimming center. the rosen went out pool. it's a story that had only moved mister vargas shed light on the part of these old family's history. he almost never learned. we have no back story. we did not know what happened close it as is his great, great grandmother. charges will also help rose's story sad to look back on. but it's also brings a sense of pride that. >> my ancestors. >> stood up to for civil rights and today with se

citizens council, wch was an organization and at the south thatiewed themselves as or moderate than the ku klux basically also a white supremacist organization. an efforts to humiliate as they saw northern democrats, northern liberals, particularly the kennedy family,his was a stunt pulled where theyut poverished people -- from arkansas, mississippi, the carolinas, geoia -- put impoverished people on buses and sent them directly to main stre in hyannis. toldhem that the kennedys would be the to welcome you. basically, identical to what is happening now on martha's vineyard wre they were promised all sorts of things. in fact, some were given money and st to hyannis. the idea was to humiliate, even as a clump you mentioned what it out, the target was to target the kennedys, naacp, the urban league. what we found was the stunt did not work. we have to look at 1962 hyannis was not exactly a multicultural melting pot. you had considerable segregation on cape cod. something a lot of people don't like to acknowledge. it was prevalent in the north, especially north of new york city. this was known by t

swastikas, chanting the saim anti-semitic bile that was chanted in germany in the '30s accompanied by the ku kluxwhat he thought, he said, there were really fine people on both sides. i said, something's really wrong. something's changing. and that's when i talked to tom and others about helping me out. they decided to help me out. look, folks, here's where we are. and i'm going to be brief. the fact is, i think there are periods in history where we reach certain inflection points, where everything is going to come after is going to change what's been before for the next generation. and we're in one of those points. it happens six, eight -- every six or eight generations. things are changing. they're changing rapidly. you see everything from what's happening in europe and india, from russia, china, things are changing. and united states has to regain its footing and remember who we are. so, one of the things i concluded was that, you know, those inflection points are the places where you look back two, five, ten years later and realize it's just not what it was before. it's either better or worse

we're going to talk about the of the ku klux klan next week. and you'll see that the klan was strong in maine, including in towns like milo dexter, very close to manson. i think the key reason that monson immigrants were better treated than many immigrants in other parts of maine is that unlike franco and irish americans, modern immigrants from northern europe. they were protestant. they were building. lutheran and methodist churches. and they were eager to. so the klan in maine was mainly an anti-catholic anti-immigrant group. this beautiful church building the lutheran church constructed in 90, still in monson. and the legacy of immigration continue to shape the town. i grew up around people with last names like burke and sumi and erickson. all right let me wrap it up. we've seen that monson like other american rural places during the late 19th century, was well aware the challenges posed by the growth cities and that it was quite ingenious in drawing upon urban and global resources to respond to those challenges. monson did this by creating

atlanta, for rest hills academy named after a confederate general and one of the founders of the ku klux lee magnate school, renamed liberty magnate school. and montgomery, alabama where three public high schools have at least 80% black population confederate named schools remain. >> they need changes. >> need to cut all ties. >> needs to happen now. >> reporter: when protesters brought down the statue of robert e. lee in front of the school that bears his name in 2020, president claire reed called a turning point. >> it was kind of a wake-up call for all of us. it's time. >> reporter: but school board member lisa keefe argued changing the name would be divisive. >> it's divided us as a board. it's divided us as a city. >> reporter: despite the objection, the school board had enough votes to change the names of all the schools in 2020 but two years later not much has happened. one of the major obstacles slowing them down is the alabama memorial preservation act signed in 2017 by governor kay ivey. wills said if they change the school name without getting approval, they could get deep fin

can you imagine as far as the ku klux? >> and i-35 year-old woman is going to get take they can. lafayette, rose was killed in a crash just weeks before she was set to testify in court or let it says there was speculation at the time that the crash wasn't an accident. and rose was targeted by white-supremacist rosa bell, who was only 13 at the time was forced to stand in for her mom bike in boulder county to testify in the civil rights case and that bravery recognized and celebrated one more break probably means the pool was closed during the court battle. never reopen 2 decades later, the city of bilby book i burger rec center in its place. >> 2019 local leaders made the swimming center. the rosen went out. cool story that not only moved mister vargas shed light on the part of these old family's history. he almost never learned. we have no back story. we did not know what happened. it as is his great, great grandmother. will also help rose's story sad to look back on. but it's also brings a sense of pride that. >> my ancestors. >> stood up to for civil rights and today with seem

can you imagine as far as the ku klux? >> and i-35 year-old woman is going to get the take they can. lafayette rose was killed in a crash just weeks before she was set to testify in court or let us as the was speculation at the time that the crash wasn't an accident. and rose was targeted by white-supremacist rosa bell, who was only 13 at the time was forced to stand in for her mom bike in boulder county to testify in the civil rights case and that bravery recognized and celebrated one more break probably mean the pool was closed during the court battle. never reopen decades later, the city of bilby book i burger rec center in its place. >> 2019 local leaders made the swimming center. the rosen went out pool. it's a story that only moved mister vargas shed light on the part of these old family's history. he almost never learned. we have no back story. we did not know what happened close to it as is his great, great grandmother does will also help rose's story sad to look back on. but it's also brings a sense of pride that.

a bronze plaque with a hooded figure and the words ku klux klan written below it is mounted athe entrancey's campus. >>> serena williams goes to round three with a victory over the world's number two player. serena will play a doubles match tonight with her sister venus before her next singles match which is tomorrow. >>> and those are the "5 things" to know for your "new day." more on these stories all day on cnn and cnn.com and don't forget to downlookad the "5 things" podcast every morning. >>> less than a quarter of u.s. adults meet federally recommended physical activity guidelines. here with us, cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta who just did 30 sit-ups. >> and a run. this won't surprise you, but it should shock you where we are overall with our health. about 45% of people between the ages of 40 and 59 now considered obese. we didn't know people who were obese probably when you were a kid, when i was a kid. about 40 million people also have diabetes, a lot more at risk of diabetes. so much of what we talk about with healthcare is the fact we spend $4 trillion on it and

can you imagine as far as the ku klux?t a cake and lafayette. your rose was killed in a crash just weeks before she was set to testify in court or let us as the was speculation at the time that the crash wasn't an accident. and rose was targeted by white-supremacist rosa bell, who was only 13 at the time was forced to stand in for her mom bike in boulder county to testify in the civil rights case and that bravery recognized and celebrated when more brave probably means the pool was closed during the court battle never reopen decades later, the city of bilby book i burger rec center in its place. >> 2019 local leaders made the swimming center. the rose and what a pool. it's a story that only moved mister vargas shed light on the part of these old family's history. he almost never learned. we have no back story. we did not know what happened close it as is his great, great grandmother does will also help rose's story sad to look back on. but it's also brings a sense of pride that. >> my ancestors. >> stood up to for civil ri

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. >>> a new report has found that a plaque with the image of a hooded ku klux klan figure is hangingat's it doing there and why is a congressional commission, the one that flagged the image, not recommending it be removed? cnn's barbara starr live at the pentagon. what's going on here, barbara? >> well, john, this is a three-panel piece of artwork that actually apparently has been hanging at west point outside bartlett center, the science center, since the mid 1960s. this image is one small part of this three-panel display. the congressional naming commission, this is a group that's going around the country trying to propose renaming parts of military installations that were named after the confederacy during the -- from the civil war, renaming those. so they're saying they don't have direct jurisdiction to make a specific recommendation on this because it's not related to the confederacy and the civil war. all of that aside, we did get a statement from west point which says wis point does not accept, condone or promote racism, sexism or any other biases. we are reviewing the recomme

legislation in 18, in 1872 comes months, congress passes, the antiquark klux klan or the they call the ku klux klan act. and it set up the justice department to pursue the klan. this was a period where the national was feeling the congress in particular feeling it was capable of actually not only designating a park, but having united states run it as well. it took a long time to work the kinks, obviously, but at that was the intent. it's also true and it's this is the book i don't know if it was in our talk today, but the failure of reconstruction and then the later creation, the park service under during that difficult period in the early 20th century of the jim crow laws, there are lots of reasons why it was better for the park service to have a news story about its origins. right. was it was it was it was, you know, tying it in as ralph was referring earlier, i think, to all of the messiness of the civil war, tying it into a person like olmstead was known for this outright condemnation of the old south. i mean, he was as far as, you, these were people who saw it firsthand and they weren't h