The very first white supremacist HATE group formed in the United States of America consisting of Confederate veterans.
After which lynchings began.
The first 7 states to secede from the union were southcarolina, mississippi, florida, alabama, georgia, lousiana and texas joined in. That was by February 1861. Subsequently after the fall of Fort Sumter the other 4 joined them. virginia, north carolina, tennessee and askansas.
We had a civil war on our hands.
The UNION won. The confederates lost. At first it was thought to strip the treasonous traitors of their land. 400,000 acres. To be divided among the African American who had been enslaved. Representative Thddeus Stevens hated slavery and fought for the civil rights of African Americans to be the same as those of whites. He believed they were ENTITLED TO THE SAME RIGHTS AS WHITES.
That's where the 40 acres and a mule comes from...though the mule came later. That confiscated land was to be divided among the freed slaves. Of course as with all promises made it never happened. Lincoln wanted to "heal" the nation and bring us back together. Punishing the traitors was not how he wished to go about it. MORE'S THE PITY. They got off real easy those traitors. And the hates began in earnest.
Lincoln was assassinated of course. His veep Andrew Johnson, a southern sympathizer and racist I believe, followed through with that and he and Thaddeus Stevens became enemies.
So here we are again. The confederacy traitors were never brought to justice for their treasonous acts. No punishments for the traitors. Heal the country. Become a TRUE UNION. What a crock of bullsh**! IF ONLY we had followed through with that would we be in the political deathgrip of those same treasonous confederates today? I think NOT.
The HATE groups multiplied and cruelified and dummified and propagated. They go by many names today and they have Andrew Johnson to thank for it. Thaddeus Stevens was a leader of the RADICAL REPUBLICANS faction of the then-republican party. He was portrayed as the bad guy in the movie "Tennessee Johnson". I'm not so sure he was.
