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The rise of the Ku Klux Klan : right-wing movements and national politics /

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 an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McVeigh, Rory (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
Colección:Social movements, protest, and contention ; v. 32.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Klan as a national movement
  • The rebirth of a Klan nation, 1915-1924
  • Power devaluation
  • Responding to economic change : redefining markets along cultural lines
  • National politics and mobilizing "100 percent American" voters
  • Fights over schools and booze
  • How to recruit a Klansman
  • Klan activism across the country
  • The Klan's last gasp : campaigning to keep a Catholic out of the White House, 1925-1928
  • Conclusion: Right-wing movements, yesterday and today.