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A Comparison Of The Ku Klux Klan And Jim Crow Laws

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Nowadays, people do not even know they’re being racist while in the 1930s, people were intentionally racist. According to Psychological Science, aversive racism can be defined as people who have strong unbiased morals and believe they are not racist but have negative opinions which they deny from being associated prejudice actions. Two examples of intentional racism in the 1930s are The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and Jim Crow Laws. The KKK was an extreme racist group whose targets were symbols of black autonomy and goal was to restore white supremacy. They attempted to accomplish this goal terroristic acts of violence which included lynching and other types of murder. Jim Crow Laws were laws in the time of the 1930s that enforced racial segregation,
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