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The second coming of the invisible empire : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s
- Title
- The second coming of the invisible empire : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s / William Rawlings.
- Author
- Rawlings, William, 1948-
- Publication
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2016.
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- Additional Authors
- Mercer University Press.
- Description
- xiii, 311 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Summary
- Fifty years after the end of the Civil War, William Joseph Simmons, a failed Methodist minister, formed a fraternal order that he called The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Organized primarily as a money-making scheme, it shared little but its name with the Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction Era. This new Klan became, for a brief period of time in the mid-1920s, one of America's most powerful social and political organizations. While often using intimidation and violence against its foes, the Klan was responsible for the election of supportive politicians at all levels of government. Following a disastrous attempt to influence the presidential election of 1924, and with increasing public awareness of the Klan's corrupt and violent nature, the order faltered, becoming a mere wisp of its former self by 1930.
- Subjects
- Hate groups
- Social movements
- Political culture
- Racism
- United States
- Simmons, W. J (William Joseph), 1880-1945
- Hate groups > United States > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- Race relations
- Social movements > United States > History > 20th century
- History
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) History > 20th century
- Political culture > United States > History > 20th century
- Right-wing extremists > United States > History > 20th century
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- Racism > United States > History > 20th century
- United States > Race relations > History > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [304]-308) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 16-664
- ISBN
- 9780881465617
- 0881465615
- OCLC
- 944242464
- Author
- Rawlings, William, 1948- author.
- Title
- The second coming of the invisible empire : the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s / William Rawlings.
- Publisher
- Macon, Georgia : Mercer University Press, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [304]-308) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Mercer University Press.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 16-664