The segregation among whites and blacks during the early days of our nation's founding is not just an immoral wrong-doing of our country, but a time in which our nation was able to grow and thrive by learning from it's mistakes. Some prime examples of events inspired by racial segregation include the Brown v. Board of Education and Plessy v. Ferguson cases, along with the creation of the Ku Klux Klan.

One of the most well-known, publicly racist organizations in time has been the Ku Klux Klan, better known as the "KKK." "Ku Klux comes from the Greek work 'kuklos' meaning circle" (Spartacus). It began on Christmas Eve in 1865 when six young men in Pulaski Tennessee grouped together to join their hate. One supporter by the name of Claude Bowers claimed, "the clan was organized for the protection of women, property, civilization itself" (Jim Crow 21). In a matter...