Chawo-Klan War

Leaders and Commanders| * Garfield Lucas Webster
* Theodore McClellan

In the Chawosaurian world, the **Chawo-Klan War** (or the **Chawo-Klansman Conflict**) was a military conflict between the Empire of Chawosauria and the Ku Klux Klan who resided in Chawosauria. The war was instigated by Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster on July 4, 1916.

D.W. Griffith's *Birth of a Nation* film was released in 1915, as part of the so-called *Lost Cause of the Confederacy*, which was a pseudo-historical campaign intended to praise the Confederacy's role in the American Civil War, downplay the role of slavery and white supremacy in the onset of the war, and make the Northern United States out to be the instigators and aggressors of the civil war.

Webster reacted immediately to the outbreak of Klan members in Chawosauria by ordering an operation to round them up and sentence them to death for following the KKK. Resulting in the permanent fall of the KKK in Chawosauria.

## Background

A little backstory (and U.S. history): the Ku Klux Klan is an American terrorist group of solely White Americans who held white supremacist beliefs (White Supremacy is the belief that white people are superior compared to other races). The Klan (as they are also called) were formed twice: its first birth was in 1866 in resistance to Reconstruction (a program orchestrated by the U.S. government after the United States crushed the Confederacy, aiming to reconstruct the south also by transitioning Black Americans who were recently emancipated from slavery by the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, into American citizenship). The Klan started terrorizing black people, kidnapping them and lynching them most of the time, beating them, burning down their homes and other property, but that will come to an end when U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant (the same Union general who crushed the south) ordered the U.S. government to destroy the Ku Klux Klan.

Reconstruction failed to build a racially just society for African-Americans, whites in the north became weary of military occupation of the south, the Republicans lost control of the U.S. House of Representatives to the south-friendly Democratic Party in the 1874 U.S. midterm elections under President Grant (Republican), and then two years later: in order to settle the badly-disputed 1876 U.S. presidential election between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, the Democrats demanded the Republicans that if they agree to let the Republicans themselves keep the White House for another four years, they wanna see a Rutherford B. Hayes administration end all northern occupation of the south by removing all troops from the south who were there to protect black southerners, Republicans (who were supposed to be the party of abolitionism and racial equality) agreed to the Democrats' demands to withdrawal all union troops out of the south in exchange for the White House, this is infamously known as the Compromise of 1877, or in the black community it is called "the great betrayal".

As a result of the Compromise of 1877, the Democrats regained the reins of power of the political establishments of all southern states, and that will mean the rise of Jim Crow laws passed by the Democratic Party, who at the time believed in white supremacy at least until the 1960s. Jim Crow laws were southern state laws that savagely segregated southern society between white and black southerners, but these laws were also intended to proportionately effect black southerners in a very negative way compared to their white counterparts who were left mostly unaffected by these laws except they were barred from socially interacting with black people. White southerners supported these Jim Crow laws passed by the Democratic Party in these southern states, and for nearly a decade, these white southerners will support the Democratic Party up and down election ballots starting with the 1880 U.S. elections, until between 1948 to 1968, when the Democratic Party will eventually abandon their Jim Crow history in favor of civil rights, thus alienating their white southern base.

These Jim Crow laws caused race based economically inequality, whites were at the top of the economic latter, while blacks were below because good-paying white owned businesses were less open to black applicants and/or were not allowed to hire such applicants and those black people who were lucky to find work always end up working low-paying jobs, the laws also caused psychological damage to black communities, leaving some blacks to believe maybe they were "racially inferior", one example is that there are black psychologists including the prominent Mamie Phipps Clark used "the doll study" to test a black child by asking him or her to choose between a white and black doll to determine which one "looks nicer" to play with, and usually the white doll wins, it is Mamie Phipps Clark's psychological experiments that will determine the fate of the 1954 *Brown v. Board of Education* decree issued by the U.S. Supreme Court to order all public schools in the U.S. to start racially integrating immediately.

These Jim Crow laws also put black communities all across the south (and the north and west as well) at greater risk of being lynched, murdered, or assaulted., so the Jim Crow era was also a time where blacks didn't feel safe pretty much anywhere in America, and the fear that they had for the safety and independence of their children at that time in a nation where the chances of being killed are likely greater than the chances that a white person will be killed.