num_pages: 152
description: The Southern Poverty Law Center calls the growth of the American Knights of the KKK "explosive," reporting that they grew from one chapter in Indiana in 1996 to 12 the following year. The hooded order has held scores of courthouse rallies and cross burnings across the Midwest each year since then. Klanwatch cites the them as being "remarkable" for their "crude racism and threats." Kicking off 1998 with a wave of "night riding," by stuffing their hateful circulars into newspaper tubes from coast to coast, the American Knights continue to explode onto the American scene.  What makes these angry people tick? How do communities respond? What can be done to defuse this time-bomb? Award-winning journalist and Indiana newspaper publisher Worth Weller, who has covered conflict in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Mexico before discovering it in his own backyard, answers these questions in this very up-close and personal book.
language: English
title: Under the Hood: Unmasking the Modern Ku Klux Klan
publisher: DeWitt Books