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Unmasking the Klansman

Author : Dan T. Carter
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 1588384829
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book Unmasking the Klansman written by Dan T. Carter and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unmasking the Klansman may read like a work of fiction but is actually a biography of Asa Carter, one of the South's most notorious white supremacists (and secret Klansman). During the 1950s, the North Alabama political firebrand became known across the region for his right-wing radio broadcasts and leadership in the white Citizens’ Council movement. Combining racism and thinly-concealed anti-Semitism, he created a secret Klan strike force that engaged in a series of brutal assaults, including an attack on jazz singer Nat King Cole as well as militant civil rights activists. Exploring his life during these years offers new insights into the legal maneuvers as well as the violence used by white Southern segregationists to derail the civil rights movement in the region. In the early 1960s Carter became a secret adviser to George Wallace and wrote the Alabama governor’s infamous 1963 inauguration speech vowing "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever." When Carter disappeared from Alabama in 1972, few knew that he had assumed a new identity in Abilene, Texas, masquerading as a Cherokee American novelist. Using the name “Forrest” Carter, he published three successful Western novels, including The Rebel Outlaw: Josey Wales, which Clint Eastwood made into a widely acclaimed 1976 movie. His last book, The Education of Little Tree (a fake biography of his supposed Indian childhood) posthumously became a number one best-seller in 1991. Author Dan T. Carter uncovered “Forrest” Carter’s true identity while researching his biography of Georgia Wallace and in a New York Times’ op-ed he exposed Carter’s deception. Although the difficulties of uncovering the full story of the secretive Carter initially led him to abandon the project, in 2018 he gained access to more than two hundred interviews by the late Anniston newsman, Fred Burger. These recordings and his two decades of exhaustive research finally brought Asa Carter’s story into focus. Unmasking the Klansman is the result.

The Klan Unmasked

Author : Stetson Kennedy
Publisher : Florida Atlantic Univ
ISBN 13 : 9780813009865
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Klan Unmasked written by Stetson Kennedy and published by Florida Atlantic Univ. This book was released on 1954 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The shocking truth about hooded terrorism by a man who infiltrated the infamous Ku Klux Klan and lived to tell about it."--Tony Brown's Journal "In a fast-paced narrative that both repels and fascinates, Kennedy reveals the inner workings of the Klan as an undercover agent in the post-WWII era."--Kliatt Young Adult Paperback Book Guide Stetson Kennedy here tells the story of his post-World War II years as an undercover agent in the KKK (where he rose to Kleagle rank). Fast-paced and suspenseful, the book is a gripping mix of eyewitness reports of Klan activities, accounts of Kennedy's clandestine information-gathering, and his efforts to report his findings to the media and to any law enforcement agencies that would listen. As a result, for a time in the 1940s, Washington news commentator Drew Pearson was reading Klan meeting minutes on national radio, and radio's Superman had America's kids sharing the most current Klan passwords as fast as the Dragon could think up new ones.

Ku Klux Kulture

Author : Felix Harcourt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022663793X
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Ku Klux Kulture written by Felix Harcourt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far beyond its paying membership to become part of modern American society. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Harcourt shows how the Klan’s racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America’s prevailing culture.

Bloody Tuesday

Author : John M. Giggie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197766668
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)

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Download or read book Bloody Tuesday written by John M. Giggie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling work recovers a neglected episode in the Black community's long struggle for full citizenship when police and Klansmen stormed First African Baptist Church and brutalized over 600 unarmed protestors preparing to march for freedom. Bloody Tuesday, as Tuscaloosa residents called the day, is one of the most violent episodes in the civil rights movement.

The Klan Unmasked

Author : Stetson Kennedy
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817356746
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Klan Unmasked written by Stetson Kennedy and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, who writes of his experiences as an undercover agent in the KKK after WWII, has added an afterword and new photos to this edition.

The Clansman

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Clansman written by Thomas Dixon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1905 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends, the Cameron family in Piedmont, South Carolina.This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies. The consequences of the War in their lives are shown in connection to major historical events, like the development of the Civil War itself, Lincoln's assassination, and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

A War of Sections

Author : Steve Suitts
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 1588385043
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book A War of Sections written by Steve Suitts and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sweeping reinterpretation of the history of disfranchisement, Steve Suitts illuminates how a century of political conflicts in Alabama came to shape both some of America's best achievements in voting rights and its continuing struggles over voter suppression. A War of Sections tells the unknown political history symbolized today by the annual pilgrimage of presidents and celebrities across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It is the story of how that crucial, tragic day in Selma in 1965 was only the flashpoint of a much longer history of failures and successes involving conflicts not only between blacks and whites in Alabama but between white political factions warring in the state over voting rights. Suitts recasts the context and much of the content of disfranchisement in Alabama as an unremitting, decades-long sectional battle in white-only politics between the state's rural Black Belt and north Alabama counties. He uncovers important Black and white heroes and villains who collectively shaped the arc of voting rights in Alabama and ultimately across the nation. A War of Sections offers a new understanding of the political dynamics of resistance and change through which a southern state's long-standing democratic failures ironically provided motivation for and instruction to a reluctant nation regarding unmatched ways to advance universal voting. Along the way, the book introduces from this unheard past some prophetic voices that speak to the paramount issues of America's commitment to the universal right to vote-then and now.

Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Under the Hood

Author : Worth H. Weller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Under the Hood written by Worth H. Weller and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Clansman

Author : Thomas Dixon
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813126944
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book The Clansman written by Thomas Dixon and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1905 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Klan Unmasked

Author : William Joseph Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Klan Unmasked written by William Joseph Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition

Author : Linda Gordon
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493701
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition written by Linda Gordon and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review). Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926—but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books).

The Klansman

Author : William Bradford Huie
Publisher : London : W. H. Allen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Klansman written by William Bradford Huie and published by London : W. H. Allen. This book was released on 1967 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Klansman is the story of Ku Klux Klan atrocities in northwest Alabama in 1965 and how these atrocities affected the lives of many persons ..."--Caption.

Life of a Klansman

Author : Edward Ball
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374720266
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Life of a Klansman written by Edward Ball and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A haunting tapestry of interwoven stories that inform us not just about our past but about the resentment-bred demons that are all too present in our society today . . . The interconnected strands of race and history give Ball’s entrancing stories a Faulknerian resonance." —Walter Isaacson, The New York Times Book Review A 2020 NPR staff pick | One of The New York Times' thirteen books to watch for in August | One of The Washington Post's ten books to read in August | A Literary Hub best book of the summer| One of Kirkus Reviews' sixteen best books to read in August The life and times of a militant white supremacist, written by one of his offspring, National Book Award–winner Edward Ball Life of a Klansman tells the story of a warrior in the Ku Klux Klan, a carpenter in Louisiana who took up the cause of fanatical racism during the years after the Civil War. Edward Ball, a descendant of the Klansman, paints a portrait of his family’s anti-black militant that is part history, part memoir rich in personal detail. Sifting through family lore about “our Klansman” as well as public and private records, Ball reconstructs the story of his great-great grandfather, Constant Lecorgne. A white French Creole, father of five, and working class ship carpenter, Lecorgne had a career in white terror of notable and bloody completeness: massacres, night riding, masked marches, street rampages—all part of a tireless effort that he and other Klansmen made to restore white power when it was threatened by the emancipation of four million enslaved African Americans. To offer a non-white view of the Ku-klux, Ball seeks out descendants of African Americans who were once victimized by “our Klansman” and his comrades, and shares their stories. For whites, to have a Klansman in the family tree is no rare thing: Demographic estimates suggest that fifty percent of whites in the United States have at least one ancestor who belonged to the Ku Klux Klan at some point in its history. That is, one-half of white Americans could write a Klan family memoir, if they wished. In an era when racist ideology and violence are again loose in the public square, Life of a Klansman offers a personal origin story of white supremacy. Ball’s family memoir traces the vines that have grown from militant roots in the Old South into the bitter fruit of the present, when whiteness is again a cause that can veer into hate and domestic terror.

The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked

Author : W. C. Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258050160
Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Ku Klux Klan Unmasked written by W. C. Wright and published by . This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Behind the Mask of Chivalry

Author : Nancy MacLean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195098366
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Mask of Chivalry written by Nancy MacLean and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly written and meticulously researched, this book offers a major new interpretation of the Ku Klux Klan in America, placing the organization in its context of class and gender as well as race and religion.

Gospel According to the Klan

Author : Kelly J. Baker
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700624473
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Gospel According to the Klan written by Kelly J. Baker and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many Americans, modern marches by the Ku Klux Klan may seem like a throwback to the past or posturing by bigoted hatemongers. To Kelly Baker, they are a reminder of how deeply the Klan is rooted in American mainstream Protestant culture. Most studies of the KKK dismiss it as an organization of racists attempting to intimidate minorities and argue that the Klan used religion only as a rhetorical device. Baker contends instead that the KKK based its justifications for hatred on a particular brand of Protestantism that resonated with mainstream Americans, one that employed burning crosses and robes to explicitly exclude Jews and Catholics. To show how the Klan used religion to further its agenda of hate while appealing to everyday Americans, Kelly Baker takes readers back to its "second incarnation" in the 1920s. During that decade, the revived Klan hired a public relations firm that suggested it could reach a wider audience by presenting itself as a "fraternal Protestant organization that championed white supremacy as opposed to marauders of the night." That campaign was so successful that the Klan established chapters in all forty-eight states. Baker has scoured official newspapers and magazines issued by the Klan during that era to reveal the inner workings of the order and show how its leadership manipulated religion, nationalism, gender, and race. Through these publications we see a Klan trying to adapt its hate-based positions with the changing times in order to expand its base by reaching beyond a narrowly defined white male Protestant America. This engrossing expos looks closely at the Klan's definition of Protestantism, its belief in a strong relationship between church and state, its notions of masculinity and femininity, and its views on Jews and African Americans. The book also examines in detail the Klan's infamous 1924 anti-Catholic riot at Notre Dame University and draws alarming parallels between the Klan's message of the 1920s and current posturing by some Tea Party members and their sympathizers. Analyzing the complex religious arguments the Klan crafted to gain acceptability-and credibility-among angry Americans, Baker reveals that the Klan was more successful at crafting this message than has been credited by historians. To tell American history from this startling perspective demonstrates that some citizens still participate in intolerant behavior to protect a fabled white Protestant nation.