They called themselves the K.K.K.
Subtitle: the birth of an American terrorist group
By: by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780618440337
Subjects: Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.) -- Juvenile literature; Ku Klux Klan (1915-) -- Juvenile literature; Racism -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature; Hate groups -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature; United States -- Race relations
Genres: Juvenile literature
Description: "They Called Themselves the KKK: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti is a historical nonfiction book aimed at young adults. It explores the origins and rise of the Ku Klux Klan after the American Civil War in 1865. 
The book provides a detailed account of the social and political climate of the time, highlighting the fear and racism that fueled the Klan's actions. It also examines the broader impact of the Klan on American society and the ongoing struggle for civil rights.

" "We promise to: protect the weak, the innocent, and the defenseless from the indignities, wrongs, and outrages of the lawless, the violent, and the brutal; to relieve the injured and oppresed; to succor the suffering and unfortunate, and especially the widows and orphans of Confederate soldiers." -Vow of the Ku Klux Klansmen " - back cover
Table of contents: title: A note to the reader; title: "Bottom rail top"; title: "Boys, let us get up a club"; title: "I was killed at Chickamauga"; title: "Worms would have been eating me now; title: "They say a man ought not to vote"; title: "I am going to die on this land"; title: "A whole race trying to go to school"; title: "They must have somebody to guide them"; title: "Forced by force, to use force"; title: "The sacredness of the human person"; title: Epilogue : "it tuck a long time"; title: Time line of the civil rights movement.