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White robes and burning crosses : a history of the Ku Klux Klan from 1866 / Michael Newton

Author
Newton, Michael, 1951-
Published
Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Physical Description
vii, 306 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

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Contents
Introduction: "Good ole Rebels" -- "This is a white man's country" (1866/1873) -- Never sound retreat (1874/1914) -- Rebirth of an empire (1915/1921) -- Glory days (1922/1929) -- Depression and decline (1930/1944) -- Fire in the ashes (1945/1953) -- Beyond "Black Monday" (1954/1960) -- The second Reconstruction (1961/1969) -- "Growing and improving all the time" (1970/1982) -- At war with "ZOG" (1983/1995) -- "Yesterday, today, forever" (1996/2014).
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
9780786477746 (pbk. : alkaline paper)
0786477741 (pbk. : alkaline paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-292) and index.
Source of Acquisition
Purchased with funds from the Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library; 2014.
Endowment Note
Robert E. and Joyce L. Umbaugh Libraries Endowment for the Penn State DuBois Campus Library
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