White robes and burning crosses
Subtitle: a history of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866
By: Michael Newton
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780786477746
Subjects: Race relations; Domestic terrorism; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Ku Klux Klan (19th century); Racism; History
Description: "From the Klan's post-Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world's oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: "Good ole Rebels"; title: "This is a white man's country" (1866/1873); title: Never sound retreat (1874/1914); title: Rebirth of an empire (1915/1921); title: Glory days (1922/1929); title: Depression and decline (1930/1944); title: Fire in the ashes (1945/1953); title: Beyond "Black Monday" (1954/1960); title: The second Reconstruction (1961/1969); title: "Growing and improving all the time" (1970/1982); title: At war with "ZOG" (1983/1995); title: "Yesterday, today, forever" (1996/2014).