Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
Activities of Ku Klux Klan Organizations in the United States
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : National security
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
The Present-day Ku Klux Klan Movement
Author: United States. Congress. House Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Challenge of the Klan
Author: Stanley FrostThe Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest
Author: Charles C. AlexanderPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813183332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
A study of the career of the KKK and its appeal in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in the early twentieth century. This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of nativism, racism, and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest—Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period of discontent and disillusion, the Klan spread rapidly over the region and by 1922 its tens of thousands of members had made it a potent force in politics. Charles C. Alexander finds that the Klan in the Southwest, however, functioned more as vigilantes in meting extra-legal punishment to those it deemed moral offenders than as advocates of race and religious prejudice. But the vigilante hysteria vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared; opposition to its terrorist excesses and its secret politics led to its decline after 1924, when the Klan failed abysmally in most of its political efforts. Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations. “The Ku Klux Klan is not a single phenomenon. It is three different organizations, which sprang up three different times, for three different reasons. Charles Alexander focuses this study—and it’s a good one—on the middle Klan, the so-called Invisible Empire extending from 1915 to 1944, flourishing in the mid-twenties with a membership estimated at 5 million, at one time or another dominating to some degree politically every city in the Southwest. . . . A forthright and definitive account, to be read along with David Chalmers’s recent Hooded Americanism . . . for the complete national picture.” —Kirkus Reviews
The Ku Klux Klan in Illinois
Author: Illinois. General Assembly. Legislative Investigating CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Ku Klux Klan in Pennsylvania
Author: Emerson Hunsberger LoucksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Ku Klux Klan
Author: Michael NewtonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN:
Category : Højreekstremisme
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
This monumental reference work is a comprehensive guide to the Ku Klux Klan. It begins with a brief history of the KKK, from antebellum predecessors to the present day. Subsequent chapters cover beliefs, including white supremacy, nativism, religion, moralism and education; terms and abbreviations, with a definitive glossary; biographies of prominent historical Klansmen and profiles of KKK groups and front groups; profiles of individuals and groups linked or friendly to the Klan; an historical overview of the Klan in politics, including friendly and adversarial politicians; a discussion of activities in the United States and abroad; the use of violence, with a roster of murder victims, a compilation of arson and bombing incidents, and sketches of riots and lynchings; state and federal efforts to police or infiltrate the Klan; watchdog groups; and current and historic journalists who covered Klan activities. Appendices provide a KKK timeline and reproductions of several key Klan documents.
Committee and Subcommittee Prints, Reprints, Documents, Monographs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American ActivitiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, 1920-1930
Author: John Augustus DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 768
Book Description
The Grey Eagles of Chippewa Falls
Author: John E. KinvillePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 143966904X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
A women’s chapter of the KKK in the early twentieth-century Midwest is uncovered in this fascinating and meticulously researched social history. In the xenophobic atmosphere of the 1920s and 1930s, Ku Klux Klan activity spiked in Wisconsin and gave rise to Women’s Klan no. 14, also known as the Grey Eagles of Chippewa Falls. Against a national backdrop that saw the Klan hurl its collective might into influencing presidential elections and federal legislation, quotidian matters often stole the attention of the Grey Eagles. Drawing on never-before-seen materials, author John E. Kinville unfolds their complex legacy. For every minute spent upholding Prohibition and blocking Catholic Al Smith’s path to the White House, the Grey Eagles spent two raising funds for their order and helping neighbors in need. What unfolds in Kinville’s work is the complex legacy of these Chippewa Falls women who struggled to balance care for their community against the malicious ideology of the Klan.