The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas - 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 1920s Arkansas write by Kenneth C. Barnes. This book was released on 2021-03-04. The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner, 2022 J.G. Ragsdale Book Award, Arkansas Historical Association The Ku Klux Klan established a significant foothold in Arkansas in the 1920s, boasting more than 150 state chapters and tens of thousands of members at its zenith. Propelled by the prominence of state leaders such as Grand Dragon James Comer and head of Women of the KKK Robbie Gill Comer, the Klan established Little Rock as a seat of power second only to Atlanta. In The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas, Kenneth C. Barnes traces this explosion of white nationalism and its impact on the state’s development. Barnes shows that the Klan seemed to wield power everywhere in 1920s Arkansas. Klansmen led businesses and held elected offices and prominent roles in legal, medical, and religious institutions, while the women of the Klan supported rallies and charitable activities and planned social gatherings where cross burnings were regular occurrences. Inside their organization, Klan members bonded during picnic barbeques and parades and over shared religious traditions. Outside of it, they united to direct armed threats, merciless physical brutality, and torrents of hateful rhetoric against individuals who did not conform to their exclusionary vision. By the mid-1920s, internal divisions, scandals, and an overzealous attempt to dominate local and state elections caused Arkansas’s Klan to fall apart nearly as quickly as it had risen. Yet as the organization dissolved and the formal trappings of its flamboyant presence receded, the attitudes the Klan embraced never fully disappeared. In documenting this history, Barnes shows how the Klan’s early success still casts a long shadow on the state to this day.
The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas during the 1920's
The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas during the 1920's - 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 Arkansas during the 1920's write by Merrellyn S. James. This book was released on 1981. The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas during the 1920's available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas in the 1920's
The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas in the 1920's - 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 Arkansas in the 1920's write by Roger Baltz. This book was released on 1984. The Ku Klux Klan in Arkansas in the 1920's available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest
The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest - 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 Southwest write by Charles C. Alexander. This book was released on 2021-05-11. The Ku Klux Klan in the Southwest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the career of the KKK and its appeal in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas in the early twentieth century. This is a study of a disturbing phenomenon in American society—the Ku Klux Klan—and that eruption of nativism, racism, and moral authoritarianism during the 1920s in the four states of the Southwest—Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas—in which the Klan became especially powerful. The hooded order is viewed here as a move by frustrated Americans, through anonymous acts of terror and violence, and later through politics), to halt a changing social order and restore familiar orthodox traditions of morality. Entering the Southwest during the post-World War I period of discontent and disillusion, the Klan spread rapidly over the region and by 1922 its tens of thousands of members had made it a potent force in politics. Charles C. Alexander finds that the Klan in the Southwest, however, functioned more as vigilantes in meting extra-legal punishment to those it deemed moral offenders than as advocates of race and religious prejudice. But the vigilante hysteria vanished almost as suddenly as it had appeared; opposition to its terrorist excesses and its secret politics led to its decline after 1924, when the Klan failed abysmally in most of its political efforts. Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations. “The Ku Klux Klan is not a single phenomenon. It is three different organizations, which sprang up three different times, for three different reasons. Charles Alexander focuses this study—and it’s a good one—on the middle Klan, the so-called Invisible Empire extending from 1915 to 1944, flourishing in the mid-twenties with a membership estimated at 5 million, at one time or another dominating to some degree politically every city in the Southwest. . . . A forthright and definitive account, to be read along with David Chalmers’s recent Hooded Americanism . . . for the complete national picture.” —Kirkus Reviews
Ku Klux Kulture
Ku Klux Kulture - 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 Kulture write by Felix Harcourt. This book was released on 2019-05-09. Ku Klux Kulture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s the self-proclaimed Invisible Empire had an even wider significance as a cultural movement. Ku Klux Kulture reveals the extent to which the KKK participated in and penetrated popular American culture, reaching far beyond its paying membership to become part of modern American society. The Klan owned radio stations, newspapers, and sports teams, and its members created popular films, pulp novels, music, and more. Harcourt shows how the Klan’s racist and nativist ideology became subsumed in sunnier popular portrayals of heroic vigilantism. In the process he challenges prevailing depictions of the 1920s, which may be best understood not as the Jazz Age or the Age of Prohibition, but as the Age of the Klan. Ku Klux Kulture gives us an unsettling glimpse into the past, arguing that the Klan did not die so much as melt into America’s prevailing culture.
