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Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the Reconstruction-era Secret Service and its battle against the KKK's effort to suppress the emancipated African-American vote, sharing particular insights into the career of controversial Secret Service chief, Hiram C. Whitley. In the years following the Civil War, a new battle began. Newly freed African American men had gained their voting rights and would soon have a chance to transform Southern politics. Former Confederates...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members,...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (vii, 306 pages) : illustrations.
Language
English
Description
"From the Klan's post-Civil War lynchings in support of Jim Crow laws, to its bloody stand against desegregation during the 1960s, to its continued violence in the militia movement at the turn of the 21st century, this revealing volume chronicles the complete history of the world's oldest surviving terrorist organization from 1866 to the present"--
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--
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Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penquin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The year is 1867, and the South has lost the Civil War. Those on the lowest rungs, like Shad's family, fear that the freed slaves will take the few jobs available. In this climate of despair and fear, a group has formed. Today we know it as the KKK"--
Series
Elsie Dinsmore a life of faith volume 7
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Elsie Dinsmore Travilla, who has always tried to live a truly Christian life, returns to Ion Plantation after the Civil War to discover that old hatreds run deep and that she must rely on her faith to withstand the Ku Klux Klan.
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