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"With meticulous detective work, Timothy Egan shines a light on one of the most sinister chapters in American history—how a viciously racist movement, led by a murderous conman, rose to power in the early twentieth century. A Fever in the Heartland is compelling, powerful, and profoundly...

The second installment in a provocative trilogy set during the Reconstruction era, The Clansman (1905) follows The Leopards Spots (1902) and precedes The Traitor (1907). This novel, which inspired the 1915 silent film classic The Birth of a Nation, weaves a fictional narrative that captures Thomas Dixon Jr.s perspective on the origins of the first Ku Klux Klan—shaped in part by his uncles role as a Grand Titan during his youth. It explores the motivations behind the white southern response to the perceived injustices and social upheaval of the Reconstruction period. While the book has been ...

On the day she was murdered, Myrtle Underwood Cook boasted to local authorities about new evidence of a major bootlegging ring operating out of the Rock Island train depot behind her house in a small town in eastern Iowa. Then, as she sat at her window sewing, she took a single slug through the heart. She was president of the local temperance union; her killing made the front page of the New York Times. The next day her funeral made national news due to the eerie presence of a small army from the Ku Klux Klan, its members, donned in full regalia, drawn from three surrounding states.

Audiobook "Ku Klux Klan. Amerykańscy rasiści" przybliża historię powstałej w XIX wieku organizacji, która prześladowała nie tylko Afroamerykanów, ale również mieszkających w Stanach Zjednoczonych katolików. Publikacja po raz pierwszy pojawiła się w druku w połowie lat 30. XX wieku.

Seit fast 150 Jahren terrorisiert der Ku-Klux-Klan weite Teile der USA. Zweimal wurde er zerschlagen, formierte sich aber wieder. Der rechtradikale Geheimbund hat weiße Spitzkapuzen zum Sinnbild für Rassismus und Gewalt in Amerika gemacht. In diesem Hörbuch erfahren Sie die Hintergründe zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Ku Klux Klans.

The brilliant, amoral, and spectacularly bold Bessie Tyler and Edward Young Clarke - together, the Southern Publicity Association - met the fervent William Joseph Simmons (founder of the second KKK), saw an opportunity, and played on his many weaknesses. Tyler and Clarke took Simmons' dying and broken KKK, with its 2,000-3,000 associates in Georgia and Alabama, and in a few short years swelled its membership to nearly five million.

In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s, when the KKK boasted over 4 million members. Most surprisingly, the state with the largest Klan membership-more than the rest of the South combined-was North Carolina, a supposed bastion of southern-style progressivism.

New York Public Library Best of 2022 A gripping, twisting account of a small town set on fire by hatred, xenophobia, and ecological disaster—a story that weaves together corporate malfeasance, a battle over shrinking natural resources, a turning point in the modern white supremacist movement...