Ku-Klux - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ku-Klux write by Elaine Frantz Parsons. This book was released on 2015-11-09. Ku-Klux available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with startling acuity. Historians have traced the origins of the Klan to Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1866, but the details behind the group's emergence have long remained shadowy. By parsing the earliest descriptions of the Klan, Elaine Frantz Parsons reveals that it was only as reports of the Tennessee Klan's mysterious and menacing activities began circulating in northern newspapers that whites enthusiastically formed their own Klan groups throughout the South. The spread of the Klan was thus intimately connected with the politics and mass media of the North. Shedding new light on the ideas that motivated the Klan, Parsons explores Klansmen's appropriation of images and language from northern urban forms such as minstrelsy, burlesque, and business culture. While the Klan sought to retain the prewar racial order, the figure of the Ku-Klux became a joint creation of northern popular cultural entrepreneurs and southern whites seeking, perversely and violently, to modernize the South. Innovative and packed with fresh insight, Parsons' book offers the definitive account of the rise of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction.
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition
The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition write by Linda Gordon. This book was released on 2017-10-24. The Second Coming of the KKK: The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s and the American Political Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An urgent examination into the revived Klan of the 1920s becomes “required reading” for our time (New York Times Book Review). Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordon’s disturbing and markedly timely history of the reassembled Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s. Dramatically challenging our preconceptions of the hooded Klansmen responsible for establishing a Jim Crow racial hierarchy in the 1870s South, this “second Klan” spread in states principally above the Mason-Dixon line by courting xenophobic fears surrounding the flood of immigrant “hordes” landing on American shores. “Part cautionary tale, part expose” (Washington Post), The Second Coming of the KKK “illuminates the surprising scope of the movement” (The New Yorker); the Klan attracted four-to-six-million members through secret rituals, manufactured news stories, and mass “Klonvocations” prior to its collapse in 1926—but not before its potent ideology of intolerance became part and parcel of the American tradition. A “must-read” (Salon) for anyone looking to understand the current moment, The Second Coming of the KKK offers “chilling comparisons to the present day” (New York Review of Books).
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Encyclopaedia Britannica - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Encyclopaedia Britannica write by Hugh Chisholm. This book was released on 1910. Encyclopaedia Britannica available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This eleventh edition was developed during the encyclopaedia's transition from a British to an American publication. Some of its articles were written by the best-known scholars of the time and it is considered to be a landmark encyclopaedia for scholarship and literary style.
The Modern Ku Klux Klan
The Modern Ku Klux Klan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modern Ku Klux Klan write by Henry Peck Fry. This book was released on 1922. The Modern Ku Klux Klan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A memoir of the author's involvment with the Ku Klux Klan. He introduced the KKK to Tennessee while recruiting new members there and later became disenchanted with the group after learning about their racist ideology. The book begins with a history of the origins of secret societies in medieval Germany and the KKK.
The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland
The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland write by James H. Madison. This book was released on 2020-10-06. The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Who is an American?" asked the Ku Klux Klan. It is a question that echoes as loudly today as it did in the early twentieth century. But who really joined the Klan? Were they "hillbillies, the Great Unteachables" as one journalist put it? It would be comforting to think so, but how then did they become one of the most powerful political forces in our nation's history? In The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland, renowned historian James H. Madison details the creation and reign of the infamous organization. Through the prism of their operations in Indiana and the Midwest, Madison explores the Klan's roots in respectable white protestant society. Convinced that America was heading in the wrong direction because of undesirable "un-American" elements, Klan members did not see themselves as bigoted racist extremists but as good Christian patriots joining proudly together in a righteous moral crusade. The Ku Klux Klan in the Heartland offers a detailed history of this powerful organization and examines how, through its use of intimidation, religious belief, and the ballot box, the ideals of Klan in the 1920s have on-going implications for America today.
