Violence

=** ﻿VIOLENCE- **= =** Mob Violence **= During the Great Depression there was a lot of violence.In some citys there were crowds and riots that we very angry and v ery hungry some of them would break in to food markets and ckear the shelfs. Some dairy farmers would dtop the milk trucks to dump the milk out into ditches in Wisconsin.They wanted to have a storage of milk so the farmers could receive more money.Most Americans went thru the Great Depression without violence or calls for revolution.

Starting in the 1890s, African Americans in the North and South, and white, built an anti-lynching movement. They used not only petitions, letter-writing, marches, and rallies, but also plays, songs, visual art, films, and pressure politicians to pass a federal anti-lynching law. While this movement ebbed and flowed and never did achieve its legislative goal, it became an important current within the “river,” as historian Vincent Harding has called it of the freedom struggle. The anti-lynching movement confronted the violent acts that became known as “lynching,” 

= KKK =

Founded in 1866, the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) extended into almost every southern state by 1870. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) always puts whites first. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) burns crosses and staging rallies they parade and march denouncing immigrants, Catholic, Jews, Black and organized labor. In the 1960’s the Ku Klux Klan bombed black schools and churches and violence against blacks. The KKK was lead by Nathan Bedford Forrest.

The Ku Klux Klan was reformed in 1915 by William J. Simmons. The KKK has been around about 1865. The KKK doesn’t appreciate blacks as much as they appreciate whites. The KKK started right after the Civil War. The KKK is known for their white costumes.

= ﻿Hate Crimes = Large majorities,of all hate crime investigations and prosecutions are conructed at the state and loxal levels. Concurrent Federal-State jurisdiction over hate crime cases can occur when the “state lacks jurisdiction where the state requests the Federal Government. Assume jurisdiction ,or declines to assume jurisdiction. Or where actions by state and local law enforcement officials have left demonstrably unvindicated. The federal interest in eradicating bias-motivated violence”

In 1994 United States Congress passed the Hate Crimes Sentencing Act Which required the U.S. Sentencing Commission to increase penalties for crimes committed because of .Animus towards a person’s “race, color, religion, gender, or disability.