Backfire : how the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement / David Chalmers

Author:: Chalmers, David Mark
Additional Titles:: How the Ku Klux Klan helped the civil rights movement
Published:: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: viii, 207 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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Contents:

The challenges of the 1960s -- Laissez-faire, violence & confusion after the school decision -- Bombingham -- Friends in high places : George Wallace -- Freedom riding -- The long hot summer -- Mississippi -- Selma -- Making the justice system work -- Klansmen on trial & the Klan's campaign of terror against the Jews of Mississippi -- Decline -- Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church & the black Jesus -- Confrontation, poor-boy politics & revival in the late 1970s -- Death in Greensboro -- David Duke steps forward -- Klan hunters : Morris Dees & the Southern Poverty Law Center -- Yesterday, today, forever : Klansmen, Klanswomen, terrorists & loose cannons -- The fifth era : an explosion on the right : coda : Patrick J. Buchanan.

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ISBN:

0742523101 (acid-free)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-194) and index.

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