Format:
Online-Ressource (244 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780816656202
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9780816656196
Series Statement:
Social movements, protest, and contention 32
Content:
In 1915, forty years after the original Ku Klux Klan disbanded, a former farmer, circuit preacher, and university lecturer named Colonel William Joseph Simmons revived the secret society. By the early 1920s the KKK had been transformed into a national movement with millions of dues-paying members and chapters in all of the nation's forty-eight states. And unlike the Reconstruction-era society, the 1920s-era Klan exerted its influence far beyond the South.In The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan, Rory McVeigh provides a revealing analysis of the broad social agenda of 1920s-era KKK, showing that althoug
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; 1. The Klan as a National Movement; 2. The Rebirth of a Klan Nation, 1915-1924; 3. Power Devaluation; 4. Responding to Economic Change: Redefining Markets along Cultural Lines; 5. National Politics and Mobilizing ""100 Percent American"" Voters; 6. Fights over Schools and Booze; 7. How to Recruit a Klansman; 8. Klan Activism across the Country; 9. The Klan's Last Gasp: Campaigning to Keep a Catholic out of the White House, 1925-1928; Conclusion: Right-Wing Movements, Yesterday and Today; Acknowledgments; Notes; Works Cited; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S
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TU; V; W; X; Y
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816656202
Additional Edition:
Print version The Rise of the Ku Klux Klan : Right-Wing Movements and National Politics
Language:
English
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