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Civil Rights Movement: As desegregation progressed the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) recruited even more people. The KKK used violence and threats against anyone who was supporting black civil rights. The KKK was involved in countless crimes including murder and often they were not reported in the media. One case that gained awarness was the murder of the young black boy Emmett Till. Some white Americans believed that they were the superior race and they could not accept that African Americans were equal to them. Many white citizens in the United States, especially those in the South, were very unsupportive of the Civil Rights Movement and treated the African Americans cruelly. George Wallace, a govenor of Alabama was agaisnt the civil rights movement and the desegregation of schools. Wallace famously stood in front of the Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama on June 11, 1963 and that become known as the "Stand in the Schoolhouse Door". Wallace also stopped four black children fomr entering an elementary school in Huntsville.
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