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Driving force

White-Supremacist Ideology

The belief system used to justify oppression across every era.

On the timeline

December 24, 1865
The Ku Klux Klan is founded
A terror organization forms in Tennessee to attack Black citizens and Reconstruction.
February 8, 1915
The Birth of a Nation
D.W. Griffith's film glorifies the Klan and fuels a violent revival.

Resources

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson

America's racial order analyzed as a caste system.

Stamped from the Beginning

A National Book Award history of racist ideas in America.

The web

Connections to other moments, systems, and investigations — the links rarely drawn together.

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Chattel Slavery
The ideology that justified owning human beings.