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Summary Of They Call Themselves By Susan Bartoletti

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The K.K.K. is something that I have heard about throughout the years in school but never really understood who they were and what exactly they did.In Susan Campbell Bartoletti's book They Call Themselves the K.K.K. she argues that the K.K.K. was an American terrorist group that was created after the civil war. The terrorist group was made up of white males who hated black people and were mad that they lost the war. They terrorists would go around and kill innocent black people. Bartoletti does not argue on a specific side but she does give lots of evidence from both sides to show what was going on in the south at this time. This book does a very good job depicting its main point that the K.K.K. was an American terrorist group, by using many …show more content…

These pictures show how the K.K.K. was a terrorist group. One example of this is a letter written by a man named Luke who was helping educate black people. The K.K.K. allowed him to write a letter to his wife right before they hung him. “I die tonight… I have only sought to educate the negro” (P.99 Luke Williams). The K.K.K. did not only kill black people they also killed anyone who tried to help black people. By killing anyone who was involved with black people in any sort of way it proves that the K.K.K. was a terrorist group. Only a terrorist group would kill an innocent man so easily. When talking about the K.K.K. it is very easy to be bias because no one in the right state of mind likes the K.K.K.. Bartoletti does a very good job of giving evidence and opinions from both sides. Bartoletti never comes out and says the K.K.K. is bad but rather she provides evidence so the reader can make their own opinion on the K.K.K. and so the reader can learn on their own. This book is not much of a story rather facts and primary sources to inform the reader on what was going on in this time period. When talking about persuasiveness I would say that this book is not very persuasive, but that is because it does not need to be. This book is about informing people what the K.K.K. did, who they were, and why they were created. Bartoletti is trying to persuade the reader to believe that the K.K.K. was indeed a terrorist group. They way Bartoletti does this is by showing the reader countless images and primary sources from members of the Klan and of victims of the Klan. The K.K.K. was a terrible terrorist group and this book does a wonderful job proving

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