Goal
The main goal in creating these acts was to improve conditions for blacks, and freed slaves. The main target was the Ku Klux Klan, a racial group, targeting blacks and later other groups. Although this act was meant to fight against the KKK and help blacks, and freedmen, many states were reluctant to take extreme actions for several reasons. Some politicians at the state and federal levels were members of the klan, or didn’t have enough strength to fight them. Another goal of the acts were to achieve national unity, and create a country where all races and genders were considered equals.
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Famous quotes containing the word goal:
“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“The goal for all blind skiers is more freedom. You don’t have to see where you’re going, as long as you go. In skiing, you ski with your legs and not with your eyes. In life, you experience things with your mind and your body. And if you’re lacking one of the five senses, you adapt.”
—Lorita Bertraun, Blind American skier. As quoted in WomenSports magazine, p. 29 (January 1976)
“Whenever you pray, make sure you do it at school assemblies and football games, like the demonstrative creatures who pray before large television audiences. That is the real goal of the thing. But do not, I urge you, pray all alone in your home where no one can see. That does not get you ratings.”
—Garry Wills (b. 1934)