like the ku klux klan, violence was meant to stop this. okay. and on one level, klan attacks were simply an example, a vigilante violence which already existed right in which usually small groups of white men attack two black men and women and their white allies who posed a particular threat to white control. they threatened them. they whipped them. they raped them. they shot and maimed them. right. usually at their homes, usually at night. and sometimes they killed them through shooting them or hanging them. most normally such patterns of violence were not new. they would have been too familiar to people in the south, particularly during the civil war and right after the civil war. there was a lot of guerrilla violence aimed at a whole bunch of different kinds of people, including freed people. right. but this kind of nighttime attack by armed groups of men was something which was not unfamiliar in the rural southern landscape. by the time the klan emerged so that wasn't particularly what was new. yeah, the klan was not simply an epidemic of whi

like the ku klux klan, violence was meant to stop this. okay. and on one level, klan attacks were simply an example, a vigilante violence which already existed right in which usually small groups of white men attack two black men and women and their white allies who posed a particular threat to white control. they threatened them. they whipped them. they raped them. they shot and maimed them. right. usually at their homes, usually at night. and sometimes they killed them through shooting them or hanging them. most normally such patterns of violence were not new. they would have been too familiar to people in the south, particularly during the civil war and right after the civil war. there was a lot of guerrilla violence aimed at a whole bunch of different kinds of people, including freed people. right. but this kind of nighttime attack by armed groups of men was something which was not unfamiliar in the rural southern landscape. by the time the klan emerged so that wasn't particularly what was new. yeah, the klan was not simply an epidemic of whi

so this this rather small group and polaski, by the way, they call themselves the ku klux klan. why? they were they were experimenting with different oddball names. it doesn't mean anything. it has no secret at meaning at all. although the klan was very secretive in its organization, the name meant nothing was meant to sound a bit weird and spooky. and it is. they tried other names which were less catchy. it fell by the wayside. a few months later, a a group of former former high ranking confederate officers meeting in nashville recognizing the spread of this weird organizing. not far away around and adjoining counties set out to transform the klan specifically into a terrorist and political organization. the for the most part across the south as it as it very rapidly expanded became the paramilitary arm of the southern democratic party, the reactionary party of its time, the party bent on destroying, subverting, reconstruct and preventing a free now free black americans from participating in public life. its political was the destruction of an embryonic two party system in the s

the two arrive guys in ku klux klan that felt that america was sliding into gomorrah, a second rise of the ku klux klan debates over prohibition. people who supported prohibition appalled by the speakeasies and the jazz filled, booze filled clubs in the cities and the flappers, and between within the religious community, a fierce debate between religious modernists who believed that the bible could be interpreted in light of scientific discovery and fundamentalists who believed that sticking to the idea that the bible was absolute truth would be a one way to help keep society from sliding south word. and in the core of that debate is this issue of the teaching of evolution and the movement to ban the teaching of evolution in public schools and universities and in part because the teaching of evolution could lead some people to question their faith. but also because of the uses to which darwinism had been put. in particular, eugenics. the movement in the 1920s to sterile, wise people who were seen as unfit. tens of thousands of americans are forcibly sterilized by their states. in the 1

their families helped start the ku klux klan and in their particular home state. and and griffith is only too happy to make a movie out of the klansman. and when they started putting together, they needed some principle villains. well, that's the character austin stone and and lydia brown. that that's a's really hardly maed. he chose fatty stensnd lydia hamilton smith and proceeded to just hammer them into theround and showed them as the worst kind of people i and buthai think oh andlso lydia who was a mixed race woman but of somewhat fair mplexion. she wasn't white. she never tried to pass for white, but she was played by that woman right there, mary den, a white actress. you see how she looks in blackface pretty disgusting. so in in this story, thaddeus is is this amazing? i won't go through all the plot twists but eventually thaddeus stevens stoneman comes to see the light when he's hanging around. these southerners finally sees the light that that that white people should be running the south. yeah. yeah, it really lydia hamilton smith on the other hand, becau

their families helped start the ku klux klan and in their particular home state. and and griffith is only too happy to make a movie out of the klansman. and when they started putting together, they needed some principle villains. well, that's the character austin stone and and lydia brown. that that's that's reallyary masked. cse fatty stevens and lydia hamilton smith androeded to just hammer them into the ground and showed them as the worst kind of people i and but what i thk oh and also lydia whwa a mixed race woman but of somewhat fairer complexion. she wasn't wte. she never tried to pass for white, but she was played by that wom rht there, mary alden, a white actress. you see how she looks in blackface pretty disgusting. so in in this story, thaddeus is is this amazing? i won't go through all the plot twists but eventually thaddeus stevens stoneman comes to see the light when he's hanging around. these southerners finally sees the light that that that white people should be running the south. yeah. yeah, it really lydia hamilton smith on the other hand, becaus

down rolling avenue in baltimore,. 1925 song that is still our last clean sheet and joined the ku klux klan a 50,000 person klan march in the middle of washington. now also intertwined is this idea in the twenties known as nativism. now not all nativist were klansmen. all klansmen almost certainly were nativists, but nativists were people who believed it was time to cut off open immigration and. they opposed any further immigration. the united states of asians, italians, catholics eastern europeans and by the middle, the 1920s, they're going to find political success with passage of an act known as the johnson reed act that is, with a complicated formula that's going to cut off immigration from asia. and for most of the world except for western europe. also known as the national origins act 1924. the johnson reed act. on a previous slide, i had a picture of one of the leading native as the day. somewhat shockingly, henry ford, whose assembly lines detroit transformed american factories and productivity. but he was also a vicious anti-semite and nativism who required all of his workers subsc

that they sang in hitler's streets in germany in the '30s, carrying torches, accompanied by the ku klux klanand a young woman was killed, i decided that i had to run. i had to run. our democracy is at stake, and it really is. but you know what changes it? when you make the economy grow. when you stand up and ordinary people have an even shot and they're not at all susceptible to the garbage that's fed from these guys. it's pure garbage. i'm supposed to stop. i shouldn't keep going. [laughter] folks, we've got to just remember who we are. when i left scranton today, i wanted to go to the war memorial that has the names of all the scrantonians who died in world war two etched into a granite wall, because i wanted to see where my uncle - "uncle bosie," ambrose j. finnegan - where his name was etched. back when d-day occurred on sunday, the next day, my mother's four brothers all went down to the recruiting station and joined the military. every one of them volunteered. my uncle ambrose, they called him "bosie." my uncle bosie was a hell of an athlete, they tell me, when he was a kid. and he bec

his father came straight from germany and he was also arrested at a ku klux klan gathering where he brought young donald. the talk about lindbergh is very important because he was the most visible member of the america first committee that was founded by roger stewart of the class of 1937 at princeton. the other most visible member was henry ford. henry ford and charles lindbergh received the eagles award from hitler's in 1938. they were explicit in their nazi sympathies and affiliations. that doesn't mean necessarily that america first is always a slogan of nazis but historically, the american first committee with charles lindbergh and henry ford were connected directly with hitler's. hitler's had a picture of henry ford in his office. ford was the only american who lived favorably in hitler's book, mein kampf. you can see it in the text. woody guthrie professed his love of poor people, working people and anti-restasis and always in solidarity with black people. he will be against lindbergh, against henry ford and certainly against any form of nazi-ism and fascism. he's one of the grand fi

it was violence committed by a new organization called the ku klux klan. in 1871, hearings were held in congress, heard gripping testimony from victims about what they had suffered. these congressional

other thing that was interesting about eleanor, before i talk about mary and anderson is that the ku klux klan put a bounty of $25,000 on her head at one point. probably the thing that she is most noted for in the most public declaration of her support for equal rights was resigning from the daughters of the american revolution. marian anderson, a control to who was internationally known, wanted to sing. there, and they had a whites only policy. there was public sentiment that she should be allowed. however, the d.a. did not back down. eleanor originally decided to invite ms. anderson to the white house and then she decided that she needed something bigger. so she worked behind the scenes with secretary of the interior and they scheduled a concert at the lincoln memorial. and this is a picture on the top of marian anderson singing at the lincoln memorial. and it was also broadcast on radio. 75,000 people integrated audience was there to see and hear marian anderson. and this is a copy of the famous letter that she sent to the d.a. my dear mrs. henry and robert, i am afraid that i have never be

those words were spoken 100 years ago by georgia governor clifford walker at a ku klux klan rally. but the reality as it could have been the social media post by donald trump last week. time might march forward but our society's worst impulses seem to never go away. i've spoken many time about my families refugee history. i will not during the course of people this country or in this chamber who eagerly looked to slam, shut in immigration door that was once open to our ancestors. [applause] over the last 18 months more than 35000 asylum-seekers have arrived in illinois. most of them landed here and buses sent by governor abbott of texas. abbott willfully plan the arrival of these individuals in locations and at times that would engender the maximum chaos for the city of chicago and for the asylum-seekers themselves. children, pregnant women and the elderly have been sent here in the dead of night far from our dozen welcome centers and freezing wearing flip-flops and t-shirts. think about that the next time a politician from texas was a lecturer you about being a good christian. [ap

there is a growing awareness today of grant's battle against the ku klux klan, in particular, but i think this is only component of a broader array of achievements that included both executive and an entire legislative framework for equal rights that. in this category, i argue is unsurpassed by that of president. now, the reassessment of grants presidency hardly ends with reconstruction. it was rich in other achievements in both domestic and foreign policy. he successfully took on the most fiscal problems the government had ever faced. he refined and successfully reduced an unfair, precedented national debt, exceeding $2 billion for cutting taxes by $300 billion. he secured the return to the gold standard, which upon taking effect in 1879, was accompanied by an abrupt end to a major depression. consider also president grant's often forgotten foreign policy achievements. on three occasions, our 18th president averted threats of war with spain and great britain, while maintaining the nation's honor. his successful settlement of the alabama claims with great britain, which arose from claims

here we have cases involving january 6 the ku klux klan act of 1871.even think donald trump was around back then. that is not insurrection. then we have the enron obstruction case. there was eight statute passed because enron had destroyed a whole bunch of documents knowing they would eventually be subpoenaed by congress and the federal prosecutors. they pass a law to prevent it. that is a law they are using is donald trump about 500 of the generate six protest u.s. district judge charles nichols saw this. he said this is a stretch of the stretch of the law beyond the scope to inappropriately apply in these cases he ruled that a defendant must have taken quote is quoted from the law some action with respect to a document, record or other object that's a quote right on the statute. to obstruct an official proceeding under the law. we have three judge panel in washington d.c. that decide this applies to donald trump and these protesters who was on the panel? two biden appointees two out of three that's not too bad. one of them judge upon one of the most

through a state where the government, including the governor of the state, would controlled by the ku klux klan, the 1920s were a horribly divisive period in the united states. we've always argued over the role of immigration in country. we have always been fearful about the future. you know. do you really think that the people looking into the great depression were without anxiety or or, you know, the it's not new. we've economic trouble with the world always been a dangerous place. the united states has never sure exactly what our place in the world should be. so you see these arguments playing out in his life and what does that tell charlie? what does it tell me that we got through them before and we're going to get through them again. and the reason we're going to get through them again is because we're a whole nation of charlie. whether we're up or down on a particular day. we're people who get work and try to solve problems. we don't let perfect become the enemy of the good. and and so that's why i think it's the right book at the right time, because we are going to get through going on n

meanwhile during protest we rarely ever see the faces of these radical agitators kind of like the ku klux klan they like to hide their identities behind their masks and their scarves but now we do see the true colours and it's not a pretty picture take a look. >> remember the 7th of october >> never forget. >> not one more time not five more times not hundred more times not a thousand more times not 10,000 times feature here with maurice fox news contributor retired lieutenant general keith kellogg and florida congressman mike waltzer with us congressman let me start with you we've been talking to you in the lead up to what happened last night i think what really impressed me the most booze and i have interviewed a lot of military experts over the years and when you talk about taking out iran nuclear sights they would all discuss how they are spread out over iran a big country throughout the country there very deep in the ground they probably would need the help of this country they renewed our bunker buster bombs but it would be one of the most difficult operations ever last night look how de

failing in the same way and the close election it would be totally inappropriate to reach out to the ku klux klanheir votes. you need to win this country without the votes of extremists. >> it feels so cynical what's going on. back story is colleges and universities are getting billions of dollars out of the middle east, qatar and saudi arabia to fund anti- israel research centers on campus. senator chuck schumer refusing to answer questions about protesters demonstrating outside his home in brooklyn. also texas state troopers cleared up protesters so this is what costs pay for? university campuses are hosting calls about the annihilation of israel even before the terror attacks. >> chuck schumer is lifted by the same forces joe biden is conflicted by and john is right, this is a moral moment, a moment when these universities are supposed to be teaching these children both history and how to be good citizens, they are failing to do it because they are driven by profits and make massive amounts of money from these places. >> you guys have talked about this, students are about micro aggressions, no