The Ku Klux Klan
eBook - PDF

The Ku Klux Klan

A Guide to an American Subculture

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Ku Klux Klan

A Guide to an American Subculture

About this book

This history of the Ku Klux Klan traces the evolution of the organization from its 1865 founding to the present, drawing extensively on contemporaneous media reports. The Ku Klux Klan tells the story of America's oldest and largest homegrown terrorist organization. It is a revealing look at the philosophies and methods of a secret society that used religious symbols, secret codes, and the cloak of anonymity to bind its members together in the cause of violent racial warfare. The Ku Klux Klan encompasses the organization's entire history, from its post-Civil War founding by Nathan Bedford Forrest, to its high watermark in the early 20th century, with membership swelling to four million and its founders portrayed as heroes in the film, Birth of a Nation to its resurgence in the Civil Rights era, to more recent attempts by David Duke and others to put a benign face on the Klan in order to gain elective office.

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Information

Publisher
Greenwood
Year
2009
Print ISBN
9780313365768
eBook ISBN
9780313365775
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Series Foreword
  4. Preface
  5. Klan Timeline
  6. Chapter One: Origin of the KKK
  7. Chapter Two: Rebirth of the KKK
  8. Chapter Three: The Return of Terrorism
  9. Chapter Four: Kleaner Klan
  10. Chapter Five: The Klan Philosophy
  11. Chapter Six: Who Joins and Why? Mysticism, Politics, and Women of the KKK
  12. Conclusion
  13. Biographical Sketches
  14. Appendix: Significant Klan Leaders
  15. Glossary of Klan Terms
  16. Primary Documents
  17. Selected Bibliography
  18. Index