5X社区 professor of history, Elaine Frantz, provided historical insight to a recent Mississippi hate crime case.
The man in question pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime charge for burning a cross in his yard to intimidate Black neighbors.
Frantz provided context surrounding the history of cross burning, linking it to the Ku Klux Klan. She told the Washington Post that the actions committed in the trial were similar to early Klan activity.
鈥淭his is exactly what the Klan is for,鈥 said Frantz. 鈥淭he Klan has always been about someone鈥檚 dog in someone else鈥檚 yard.鈥
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