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They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group

Title
They called themselves the K.K.K. : the birth of an American terrorist group / by Susan Campbell Bartoletti.
Author
Bartoletti, Susan Campbell.
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.

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TextUse in library JFE 11-1164Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Description
172 p. : ill., map; 25 cm.
Summary
Documents the history and origin of the Ku Klux Klan from its beginning in Pulaski, Tennessee, and provides personal accounts, congressional documents, diaries, and more.
Alternative Title
They called themselves the Ku Klux Klan.
Subject
  • Hate groups > United States > History
  • Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
  • Ku Klux Klan (19th cent.)
  • Racism > United States > History
  • United States > Race relations
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-168) and index.
Contents
A note to the reader -- "Bottom rail top" -- "Boys, let us get up a club" -- "I was killed at Chickamauga" -- "Worms would have been eating me now -- "They say a man ought not to vote" -- "I am going to die on this land" -- "A whole race trying to go to school" -- "They must have somebody to guide them" -- "Forced by force, to use force" -- "The sacredness of the human person" -- Epilogue : "it tuck a long time" -- Civil rights time line.
Call Number
JFE 11-1164
ISBN
  • 9780618440337
  • 061844033X
LCCN
2009045247
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