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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
©2009.
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| Series: | Social movements, protest, and contention ;
v. 32. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.